When Dyson announced its Zone noise-canceling and air-purifying headphones earlier this year, the institution kept immoderate details adjacent to its chest. Specifically, Dyson didn’t denote pricing oregon availability, nor did it accidental overmuch astir artillery life. On Wednesday, it shared that information. Let’s statesman with the item everyone wants to know. When the wearable arrives successful the US adjacent March, it volition commencement astatine an eye-watering $949, making it astir doubly arsenic costly arsenic the AirPods Max.

At first, Dyson volition statesman accepting preorders by assignment lone earlier the headphones go disposable done its website and Demo stores crossed the country. In the US, the institution volition connection the wearable successful 2 colorways: Ultra Blue/Prussian Blue and Prussian Blue/Bright Copper. The second volition lone beryllium disposable straight from the company, but it comes with a fewer extras, including a 2nd electrostatic c filter, a brushed pouch and an inflight adaptor kit.

Both the modular and Dyson Direct models travel with the Zone’s signature vizor, arsenic good arsenic a dedicated sleeve and cleaning brush. According to Dyson, the electrostatic filters are rated to supply up to 12 months of usage earlier they should beryllium replaced. The filters diagnostic a dual-layer plan that incorporates potassium-enriched c to seizure acidic gasses similar nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and ozone. All told, the institution claims the filters volition artifact 99 percent of particles, including ones that are arsenic tiny arsenic 0.1 microns.

On the audio front, the Zone headphones are susceptible of up to 38 decibels of sound cancellation and diagnostic 40-millimeter neodymium drivers. You tin usage the MyDyson companion app to take betwixt 3 audio equalization modes dubbed Dyson EQ, Bass Boost and Neutral. At launch, the headphones volition enactment SBC, AAC and LHDC audio codecs, arsenic good arsenic Bluetooth 5.0.

Battery beingness volition beryllium connected however extensively you usage the Zone’s aerial filtration feature. If it’s not powering the Visor, the Zone’s 2,600mAh artillery tin supply up to 50 hours of listening clip connected a azygous charge. Using the visor astatine its slowest mounting reduces artillery beingness to a humble 4 hours. Increasing purification velocity to the “Mid” and “High” travel settings further reduces artillery beingness to two-and-a-half hours and one-and-a-half hours, respectively. Using USB-C charging, Dyson says it volition instrumentality astir 3 hours to instrumentality the artillery from dormant to 100 percent. All of that means you volition request to beryllium selective astir erstwhile you determine to usage the visor.