Overview: The Daisy One – The Daisy headphones’ volume slider is without a doubt their nicest feature. Among the greatest dials on headphones, particularly for this price level. It’s a smooth-rolling, scored metal knob. With a pleasing click, you can play the song or pause it by pressing the side. To skip a song, double-click; to move back one track, triple-tap. It’s quite simple.
Daisy’s on-device calming soundscapes take over when you long-press the active noise cancellation button located behind the dial. You can alternate between gentle, ambient water-based sounds like rainfall, a woodland stream, a waterfall, and ocean waves, which Daisy claims are captured throughout California. Additionally, there is a five-minute breathwork practice that sounds far less moist.
The lack of touch controls on the headphones is a blessing. When you’re merely attempting to adjust the volume, you won’t inadvertently pause or activate an AI helper. With a single button press, you may choose between transparency and noise cancellation settings.
The issue? The modes for transparency and noise cancellation are subpar. When noise canceling is turned on, walking outside in a windy environment or traveling underground on a noisy metro train is nearly as bad because the sound is distorted into loud, piercing bursts. Simply enough, transparency mode affects the audio quality and lets very little sound in from the outside. Although Daisy claims to be aware of the problem and is working to address it with software upgrades over time, these features aren’t very good. However, the promises of upcoming software updates should never be the basis for purchasing a device.
The accompanying app is easy to use, which is good, but there aren’t many sound selections. By default, it is in the Daisy EQ setting, which activates the dynamic bass capability. That sounds notably muddier than my Sony WH-1000XM4, but it works adequately for bass-heavy EDM. The true weakness of these headphones is shown when the EQ is changed to a flat sound profile. Without the dynamic bass setting on, the highs sound tinny and the lows are incredibly unenthusiastic, making the sound quality feel more hollow than it should. (The call quality is good, and no one on the other end of the call complained that I sounded strange.)
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