Focal Bathys

ESS HEADPHONES OF THE YEAR OVER $1000 HEADPHONES Soo to our final headphone award: wireless noise-cancellers over $1000. There’s always a question as to whether it’s wise to take expensive headphones on the road at all — but if you’re up for it, we might recommend a listen to the first wireless headphones ever to roll out of French firm Focal. They’re named Bathys after the Bathyscaphe, a deep-sea exploration submersible, Focal calling it “the embodiment of calm, depth and absolute silence,” which might suggest a prioritising of noise-cancelling over music production. In fact they’re better at the latter than the former: noise cancelling is good, but not up with that from Sony or Bose,. Yet the company has managed to retain the smooth warm and spacious tonal balance of…

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