Roadtesting the bonkers Dyson Zone air-purifying headphones in London

It takes a bold soul to stride around town while sporting headphones with a metallic grille that will make you look like the missing member of Daft Punk. Indeed, when Dyson floated the idea of exotic cans with a built-in air purification system back in spring 2022, the whole thing felt like an April Fool’s joke.

Coming in strong at 670g with the visor attached, these weigh almost three times as much as their wildly popular (and admittedly featherweight) Sony WH-1000XM5 rival. You might not feel this immediately, because Dyson has done such a fine job of making them feel comfy.

After a while, though, you’ll need to neck muscles of a Formula One driver not to realise that you have something akin to the weight of small cantaloupe melon perched on your bonce.