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The Dyson OnTrac headphones
Impressive sound, adequate noise-canceling, and innovative design choices define the OnTrac headphones.
Dyson could spend more time refining these headphones' physical controls, as they can be finicky and unreliable.
Who says the same company that made your vacuum cleaner and hairdryer can't make your headphones? I'm unsure if anyone has ever said that, but Dyson definitely didn't.
That's right -- the company responsible for the AirWrap and high-end air purifiers recently released the OnTrac, a pair of headphones poised to compete with the heavy hitters in the premium headphones market.
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The OnTrac headphones succeed Dyson's other, more unorthodox foray into the consumer audio industry. Last year, the company released a pair of headphones with an air-purifying mouthpiece attached. The Dyson Zone headphones may have been too weird for most people to wear in public, but the OnTrac headphones are the company's attempt to appeal to more consumers with a pair of traditional headphones.
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