We review and compare so many products at What Hi-Fi? that it’s inevitable some of our buying guides require frequent chops and changes. You may reasonably assume that our best wireless headphones guide would be among the most modified, such is the movement within that product market, but actually the established class leaders in our list don’t often tend to be all that shakeable. The Mark Levinson No.5909, for example, have been our go-to recommendation in the increasingly competitive uber-premium wireless headphones space for more than two years – one that became easier and easier to make when they dropped in price last year by 20 per cent in the US and roughly 40 per cent in the UK.
But, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end, and thankfully the end of this particularly successful reign is only to make way for something better. Dali announced its I-O8 Bluetooth headphones in October and, following our in-house testing team’s time with them, we just recently published our glowing five-star review. Of course, not all products that receive five-star reviews make it into our relevant buying guides, which tend to feature only the very best example of their type and/or price, but indeed the Dalis deliver the sound and noise-cancelling performances to get the upper hand over the Mark Levinsons.
