The high-end vacuum and fan company targets audiophiles with its noise-cancelling headphones.
We saw a hint of audio ambitions from Dyson last year with the gimmicky Zone headphones-slash-air-purifying-mask, but the company is really stepping into the space with the OnTrac, its first dedicated high-end noise-cancelling headphones.
The Dyson OnTrac over-ear headphones feature 40mm, 16-ohm neodymium speaker drivers with a frequency range of 6Hz to 21kHz. That’s wider than most headphones‘ 20Hz-20kHz stated ranges and identical to the Dyson Zone’s.
The OnTrac also has an active noise cancellation (ANC) system that uses eight microphones that sample outside noise 384,000 times per second. According to Dyson, it can block out up to 40dB of noise. That’s more advanced than the Dyson Zone, but appears to be the same ANC configuration as the upgraded Zone Absolute+, which we have not tested.
