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TechAudioHeadphonesDyson Zone price announced – how does £749 for a pair of air purifying headphones grab you?Dyson lays out full spec, March 2023 release date and priceWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Dyson lays out full spec, March 2023 release date and price
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DysonZone: £749. That’s what Dyson’s wearable air purifier and headphones combo will set you back. You’ll get the chance to try it out in March 2023 in the UK, US, Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore. Lucky Chinese people can try it from January. Dyson has now announced a load of spec and an approximate price. To be totally accurate it’s described as ‘from £749’, with the note that ‘exact pricing will be confirmed closer to launch,‘ so it could be a bit more, or a bit less.
You can read myDyson Zone review(of the ‘early hands on‘ variety), but I’ll try to sum up how I feel about it here. On one level, I think it’s very nice that Dyson is trying out new ideas. On another level, I find it really weird that they are releasing a pair of headphones, given that they have no pedigree at all in audio products. And on another level beyond that, I find it extra weird that they’ve decided to strap a Bane-style mask to the headphones, and are selling it as a personal air purifier.
But, you know, as Henry Ford said, if he’d asked the public what they wanted around road transport, they’d have just asked for a faster horse.
What you can’t question is that Dyson has clearly put a lot of effort into designing the Zone. It’s surprisingly comfortable and light. They‘ve also put a lot of effort into marketing it, with carefully timed announcements, product reveals to select journalists – me, for instance – and now a full spec splurge and price reveal.
If you want to be first to try the Zone you cansign up for more precise announcements about availabilitynow.
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How could thisnotcatch on?(Image credit: Duncan Bell)
How could thisnotcatch on?
How could thisnotcatch on?
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Dyson Zone key spec
All your Dyson Zone colour options(Image credit: Dyson)
All your Dyson Zone colour options
All your Dyson Zone colour options
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Weight670g with vizor attached (595g without)
Colour optionsSatin Silver and Ultra BlueUltra Blue and Prussian BluePrussian Blue and Bright Copper
Dyson Zone weight and dimensions(Image credit: Dyson)
Dyson Zone weight and dimensions
Dyson Zone weight and dimensions
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Dyson Zone headphones spec
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(Image credit: Dyson)
Battery life’Up to 50 hours’ of battery life is claimed for the Zone, and that’s with noise cancelling turned on. That is without the air purifier element however. With it on, you get ‘4 hours of combined purification and audio run-time.’
Dyson has leveraged its expertise in cordless vacuums and hair straighteners to make headphones with very good battery life. Headphones with an air purifier mask attached is a new product category so in that field, battery life is best in class. Dyson says the Zone can be charged from zero to 100% in 3 hours, so keeping it topped up throughout the day shouldn’t be too hard..
Voice calls and controlA further two microphones use beamforming and noise suppression to enable clear voice calls, voice recording and voice control.
Frequency range6Hz-21kHz. That’s beyond the range of human hearing, which Dyson says ensures that, ‘every note or word is heard.’
DistortionDyson says that digital signal processing, in conjunction with the noise cancellation, ‘neutralises harmonic distortion to inaudible levels across the full frequency range – 0.08% @ 94dB @1kHz’.
EQ tuning’A unique EQ setting optimises the frequency curve for clear, pure audio across the full audible frequency range,' Dyson says.
Dyson Zone air purifier spec
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(Image credit: Dyson)
If you’re struggling to understand this concept, the simplest way I can put it is that air is sucked in via the earcups of the headphones, filtered, and then relayed to the mask portion of Dyson Zone, so you are breathing purified air, even in a polluted city centre. Dyson says it removes, ‘Ultrafine particles such as allergens, and particles from sources such as brake dust, industry combustion and construction… city gas pollutants like NO2, SO2 and O3, as well as nasty city odours, like construction fumes, sewage or stale air in metro systems’
Filter lifeUp to 12 months, ‘depending on geographical location.’ Which is to say, if you live in central London or Mumbai it may be less, if you live in Newfoundland, probably longer.
The mask part of the Zone can be pulled down to activate ‘conversation mode’ – this turns off the purification bit and pauses any music that may be playing through the headphones.
Dyson Zone: clever tech stuff
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(Image credit: Dyson)
Okay, here we go.
‘An on-board sensor monitors the air for NO2 levels, tracking these live via the MyDyson app, alongside real-time environmental noise levels… An on-board accelerometer monitors the user’s activity, adjusting the purified airflow appropriately when in auto mode with the visor attached.’
The MyDyson app can also be used to adjust airflow speed and noise-cancellation mode as well as switching between three EQ modes: Dyson EQ (enhanced), Bass Boost (bassy) and Neutral (flatter response curve). Basically, Dyson has decided what it thinks the ideal EQ for a pair of headphones is, and called it Dyson EQ. I am pretty sure that at some point down the line, they’ll change this so you can choose your own EQ curve.
Dyson Zone: release date and price
Dyson Zone will be released in China in January (exact date TBC) and in the UK, US, Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore in March 2023 (exact date TBC). The price is quoted as £749 which roughly translates as $915 or AU$1,360.
Dyson Zone: even more spec
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(Image credit: Dyson Zone)
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