The good news is that there seem to be 10 different aftermarket earpad options available for the Helios so if the stock pads don’t work for you they have a fairly easy way to alter them. They were comfortable for the first few hours but they should have used a more dense memory foam because due to the high clamping force of the Helios they start to press down on your head more than most would like. The earpads on our model were a soft suede-like material. The swivel points are smooth and without restriction meaning, they easily conform to the shape of your head. These rotate a full 180 degrees which allow you to lay the headphones down flat from both sides. it’s connected to a swivel and fold point to attach the earcups. You can pull it almost flat and it will spring back to its original position. The headband is extremely robust with a full-length metal band that had no issues in our bend test. When you pick them up for the first time you feel the heft of them, they are a sturdy and well-made piece of kit. It uses a combination of metal and high-quality plastics for its structural foundation and uses a few wood inlays for tasteful decorative touches. I would call this an almost premium-feeling headphone. In terms of comfort, they are good but do have a couple of areas where they can be improved. Usually heading north of the $200 mark can fix both of these issues but in the 100-200 dollar range, things just feel a little bit sub-par.ĭoes the HarmonicDyne Helios resolve that? Not completely but they are still a well made and good looking headphone that I think punches above its weight in aesthetics and materials. Either the build is annoyingly plasticky or the comfort is sub-par. The Design and Build is excellent valueĪt this price, I have been accustomed to two things. It’s well built and has a good design with a half cord half cable set up and very high-quality hardware at the jack points. On travel headphones, it’s good to see a carry case included but these are open-back headphones designed to be used at home so the omission of a case is acceptable. This is common with full-size headphones since they don’t require too much in the way of extras to get you set up and listening. All you get in the box are the headphones and the cable. There are no extras included with the Harmonicdyne Helios. In between the earcups, there is a small cutout in which a bag containing the cable sits. It’s a simple square top of the design and on the inside, there is some very thick packaging foam into which the headphones are inserted. On more expensive products it’s nice to have a bit of drama when unboxing but on an entry-level headphone such as this I would rather money isn’t wasted on something that is destined for the trash bag. I just want them to be well padded enough to secure the safe arrival of the headphones and with the generous internal padding that’s, not a problem here. I really don’t put a lot of thought into a box. On the front of this backpack a zipped pocket contains a micro-USB cable (can run through via a hole into the main compartment), and there’s enough space for the power bank battery pack and/or a mobile device that charges via micro-USB.The packaging for the Helios is nice and simple. They’re secured by velcro straps and the rear compartment has a generous thick layer of padding, so we opted to put our MacBook Pro here and an iPad with a case in the other. But we did like that the main middle compartment had two sleeves for keeping tablets and notebooks within. A design similar to the Timbuk2 Power Q, a backpack that similarly chargers devices via USB, would have been terrific. This section doesn't have any internal pockets, so things like our chargers and documents couldn’t be individually organised and were just bundled together. And the storage options are this bag's greatest weakness, with the main and only compartment holding most of the above items we mentioned. However, we prefer to keep an organised area in the bags we use, so that we’re not required to remove multiple items to gain access to just one thing.
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