Daisy One Review: Comfy and Tactile Headphones
The Daisy One headphones are praised for their build quality, design, and tactile buttons, but criticized for mediocre sound performance and poor noise cancellation. Despite the company's focus on aesthetics, the reviewer suggests audiophiles look elsewhere for better audio quality.
Why it matters
It highlights the challenges new hardware startups face when entering a market dominated by established tech giants like Apple and Sony.
WIRED Buttons! Knobs! No touch controls! Elegant. Good build quality. Comfy fit. Great battery life. Cheaper than the (flagship) competition. TIRED Sound quality is fine. Just fine. Noise canceling is bad, and transparency mode is worse. I wish the Daisy One headphones sounded as nice as they look.
The Daisy One is the first pair of headphones from Daisy, a California company that employs former engineers from Samsung-owned audio company Harman Professional Solutions . Together with a sound system developed by Utah-based ((nxc)) systems , the Daisy One is attempting to Kool-Aid-Man-style burst its way into a very saturated premium audio market, with a focus on design and tactical buttons.
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