Dali is taking aim at the premium end of the wireless headphones market with its latest pair of over-ear cans, the IO-8. Priced at £599 / €599 / $900 / AU$999, the new over-ear headphones are set to find themselves swimming with some of the biggest sharks in the water, including the five-star Apple AirPods Max, the Focal Bathys and the Bowers & Wilkins Px8. What, then, are the IO-8 offering to set themselves apart from the pack?
The IO-8 have been designed by the same team that came up with Dali's high-end Kore range of loudspeakers, and promise to deliver high-quality sound via both a wired and a wireless connection. The new headphones feature 50mm full-range drivers with paper-fibre cone diaphragms to deliver, in Dali's words, "true hi-fi speakers for your head" which offer a "natural, relaxed sound brimming with detail".
