DALI Headphones IO-6, Iron Black

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One stood out the most with just the right amount of bass, natural sounding and detailed - it was these Dali's, hence I took the plunge. Unlike those brands just mentioned, though, Dali has no headphone pedigree and is writing its own history as it goes along.

In the vast majority of cases we will not be able to install the cabinet doors to built-in laundry products as the fittings very rarely match up. In the box, apart from the headphones themselves, you’ll get a beautifully designed carry case, an airplane adapter, an aux cable, and a USB-C charging cable. The DALI IO ear pads are made from memory foam that naturally shapes to the head, therefore creating the best possible seal to achieve minimum leak variation. Everything feels high end; functional not brutal, present rather than provocative, finessed without fuss.

It’s as if the Dali’s are holding back slightly, giving us a sound that’s expansive and refined, but isn’t as emotional or zealous as we know it ought to be. all I've done after work for the past week is listen to music and its made me fall in love with songs all over again. It’s not always possible to describe the sound of a pair of headphones as ‘fun’, but here it’s pretty easy. When making big, potentially risky decisions, phrases such as “stick to what you know best” often ring in one’s ear.

And no, I'm not bashing the Sony's like many self-proclaimed audiophiles, they mainly do one thing really, really well, noise cancelling. Lastly, here is how the response changes depending on whether you are using the headphones with noise canceling on and off, as well as when the headphones are turned off and you connect them via the 3.

The active noise-cancellation is pretty gentle, which means a) you don’t get that sensation of inner-ear pressure some rivals inflict, but b) background noise is never eradicated as effectively as many a competitor can do it for you.

Visit our amazing showroom in Hayes, West London to view, touch and listen to our Hifi and Surround sound display’s. Sitting behind the closed-back earcups and soft, slow-to-heat earpads there’s a 50mm free-edge paper fibre drive unit. With this approach, the target market for these headphones is clear: the music lover who wants a high-quality set of headphones for travelling.For sound, the Dali iO-6s dig up more detail, with vocals and strings especially feeling more human, transparent and unadulterated.