We engineered the H1H for metal. Eight speakers, four around each ear, built to feel like standing in the room with the band. Then the reviews came in and one thing kept appearing without us asking: flights, airports, trains, commutes. This page is mostly their words.
Real customer photo · airport gate
Real verified reviews from heavys.com. Not one was prompted with a question about flying. Travel is simply what people reached for when describing what these are good at.
Phenomenal sound quality and the "hell blocker" noise cancelling saved me on a 6 hour flight next to a less than year old baby who was having a bad time. Absolutely love these headphones.
Bought them to replace my Bose QuietComfort 35 II headset which had worn and ripped ear surrounds. Totally blown away by the sound quality and noise cancelling feature which I tested on a 3 hour flight recently from Dubai to Jeddah.
The battery life on these is outstanding. I have not even charged them once since I got them and that includes 4 2+ hour flights and several meetings and 1 live concert I streamed. They are still only down to 50% after all of that listening!
I love how I feel surrounded by the music. I'm also happy to not hear other people in my commute haha [...] Haven't charged them once and I've been using them for a week already.
I love these. They are great with any music (I have wide-ranging tastes) but I've never had the heavy, metal music I love sound this good. Also, I've been traveling a lot and the noise canceling when I'm on flight, in airports, etc. is great.
Unreached sound quality and nice power in terms of volume. Hell Blocker is a lifesaver when traveling. I'd like to see a few more options in the app but all in all full points along the board.
We have 2 of these in the house and the quality is superb. I love the Hell Blocker feature when travelling through airports or train stations.
I LOVE these headphones! I just took my first trip on a plane with them and they were beyond excellent for the airplane. Sound quality is excellent, volume is great, and I really enjoy the equalizer app.
They were fully charged which was great [...] they're so loud its perfect. Im excited to keep using these bad boys, i can already tell it was worth it and the case is so hard which is great for traveling.
I'm enjoying the sound a lot. It's pretty crazy to hear the front speakers. I also like these for travel since you can use them to listen with a USB C connection for my steam deck and phone. The case for it is perfect and protects them well.
The noise cancelling is really good (it blocks out the sounds of the nyc subway/bus). The padding on the head band and ear cups is comfortable.
I have headphones for gaming and use what came with my iPhone [...] After flying across the world for 12 hours, I realized I needed something better, a good set of headphones [...] Very impressive sound.

"Can't beat this 5+hr flight to Miami with my awesome @heavysaudio headphones blasting."
Nobody briefed this. It is the same thing the written reviews keep saying, and it is why this page exists at all: the H1H turned out to be the thing people reach for when they have got hours to kill and nowhere to go.
No single feature makes a flight bearable. The reason travel keeps coming up in the reviews is that these seven stack, and each one is backed below by the customers who raised it.
Almost every headphone puts one driver against each ear and asks it to cover everything from 5 Hz to 46 kHz at once. Bass, voice and cymbals all from the same piece of moving plastic. You hear that compromise as flatness, and it is why airplane audio feels like it is happening inside your head.
The H1H puts four speakers around each ear instead. Two handle low and mid range, two dedicated tweeters take the top. Each pair only does its own job, and they are positioned around you rather than fired straight at you.
What that gives you on a plane is width. Instruments and dialogue sit in different places, so a film on the seat-back screen or an album at cruising altitude has a room around it. Heavys' own travel page calls it a surround sound cinema, and that is genuinely the closest description.
"I love how I feel surrounded by the music."
Leslie Solorzano - verified buyer"It's pretty crazy to hear the front speakers."
Jimmy Lazo - verified buyer"When I traveled with just my earbuds after using my Heavys, you can definitely hear the difference. All of my earbuds sound 'flat' compared to these."
A.K. - verified buyer
Most travel headphones are built to fold small, and your ears pay for it on hour nine. The H1H uses full around-the-ear cups with deep cushions, so the rim rests on your skull instead of pressing on cartilage.
Heavys' own travel page describes the cushions as doubling as travel pillows, and that is the part customers keep repeating: they are soft enough to lean against a window and actually sleep. Comfort is the single most mentioned theme across the entire review base.
"The cushion is really covering your ears. They don't hurt after some time like other ones I could have."
Luc Schaefer - verified buyer"The ear pads are actually big enough to fit over my ears. I love that."
Peter S. - verified buyer"They're comfortable on my heavily pierced ears for long wear and super cushioned."
Kas - verified buyer
Quiet on the H1H is built in two layers, and the order matters. First the cup itself: a large around-ear seal that blocks cabin roar mechanically, before any electronics are involved. Then Hell Blocker™ Noise Cancellation - Heavys' name for the active layer - cleans up what physics left behind.
Heavys' published spec is refreshingly plain about the balance: "high efficiency PNC combined with a mild ANC." Passive does the heavy lifting. The active layer tidies up. Less processing means no hiss and less of that pressurised, underwater feeling on a long flight.
The same switch has a third position. Transparency mode opens the outside back up, so you can catch the boarding call or order a coffee without taking them off or pausing anything.
"The hell blocker noise cancelling saved me on a 6 hour flight next to a less than year old baby who was having a bad time."
Corey - verified buyer"It blocks out the sounds of the nyc subway/bus."
Kayla - verified buyer"The noise canceling and transparent mode work better than any other."
Donald - verified buyer
The practical value of the three things above is not a decibel figure. It is that the cabin stops being your problem. The queue, the announcements, the seatmate, the trolley, the hundred small frictions of moving through the world all recede, and what is left is whatever you chose to put on.
Customers describe it as being somewhere else. That is the actual product on a travel day: not silence, but somewhere else to be for twelve hours.
"I'm also happy to not hear other people in my commute haha."
Leslie Solorzano - verified buyer"I've been traveling a lot and the noise canceling when I'm on flight, in airports, etc. is great."
Robert Ross - verified buyer
Every Bluetooth headphone is one dead battery away from being an expensive neckwarmer. The H1H is not, because wired is a real mode here rather than an emergency.
A 2.5 to 3.5 mm aux cable is in the box for the seat-back screen, and Wired Pure Passive mode draws no power at all - the in-flight film works at zero percent. Then there is the part most people do not know: USB-C carries digital audio too, so the same cable that charges your phone also feeds these a clean digital signal.
"I also like these for travel since you can use them to listen with a USB C connection for my steam deck and phone."
Jimmy Lazo - verified buyer"I like that these have a USB C wired mode when the battery is drained."
Verified buyer"Wired sound quality is top tier."
Deonte Martin - verified buyer
A rigid shell moulded around the folded frame, so these live in your bag rather than on your desk because you are afraid to move them. A $39 case, included here at no extra cost.
"The case is so hard which is great for traveling."
Anthony - verified buyer"I'm glad they are shipped in a case, because the delivery driver threw these onto my deck when dropping off the package."
Kaylen - verified buyer"The included travel case comes clutch whenever im out and about."
David - verified buyerFifty hours of playback, measured against the routes people actually dread. Charging is simply not a thing you think about on a trip.
"Four 2+ hour flights, several meetings and one live concert I streamed. They are still only down to 50%."
Jason Sola - verified buyer"Been working on the same charge, daily use, for 2.5 weeks now and still going."
Verified buyer"I've gone nearly 45 hours before a charge."
Martyn - verified buyerWe are not going to claim these beat every headphone on the market. Here is what customers said comparing them to what was already in their bag.
"Totally blown away by the sound quality and noise cancelling feature which I tested on a 3 hour flight."
Tim Canter"The biggest pro for the Heavys is the battery life. Lasts me multiple days at work."
Dylan Benson"Way better than my Sony XM4's."
P.B."All of my earbuds sound 'flat' compared to these."
A.K.
Your destination matters. But so do the twelve hours getting there.
Great music turns airports into concerts, long flights into albums, and delays into time you'll actually enjoy.
| Type | Full-size around-the-ear, wired & wireless |
|---|---|
| Drivers per side | 4 - two low/mid-range, two high-frequency tweeters |
| Frequency response | 5 Hz - 46 kHz wired · 5 Hz - 24 kHz Bluetooth |
| Battery life | Up to 50 hours |
| Bluetooth | 5.1 · SBC, AAC, aptX Adaptive |
| Noise cancellation | High-efficiency passive (PNC) + Hell Blocker™ active |
| Operating modes | Wired Pure Passive · BT Passive · BT ANC · BT Transparent |
| Microphones | 2-microphone end-fire array for calls |
| Charging & input | USB-C (digital audio in) · 2.5 → 3.5 mm aux |
| Weight | 410 g / 14.5 oz |
| THD | >0.05% at 100 dB SPL, 1 kHz |
| Warranty | 1 year |
Yes. A 2.5 → 3.5 mm audio cable is included and Wired Pure Passive mode needs no battery at all, so the in-flight film works even at zero percent. On older twin-pin aircraft jacks you would still want the standard two-prong airline adapter that most frequent flyers already carry.
It is simply Heavys' name for the active noise cancellation. Nothing exotic: the large around-ear cup blocks most cabin noise physically, and Hell Blocker is the electronic layer that cancels what is left. Heavys' own spec describes the combination as "high efficiency PNC combined with a mild ANC", which is the honest version - the seal does most of the work, so you get no hiss and less pressure on a long flight. It is very good, rather than vacuum-sealed silence.
That is the most common thing customers say about the cushions. They are deep, non-leather and sit around the ear rather than on it, and Heavys' own travel page describes them as doubling as travel pillows for leaning against a window. Comfort over long wear is the single most mentioned theme in the entire review base, at 144 reviews.
Really. The longest scheduled commercial flight in the world, Singapore to New York, is about 18 hours 50 minutes, which uses roughly 38% of one charge. Customers report going 45 hours between charges and running two and a half weeks of daily use on one.
Correct, and it is genuinely useful. USB-C carries a digital audio signal into the H1H, so one cable covers a laptop, a Steam Deck, a phone, a hotel TV, charging and listening. You can charge and listen at the same time.
They are 410 g, which is more than a fold-small plastic travel headphone - that is the trade for eight drivers and a real headband. The weight sits across a wide padded band rather than clamping your ears, which is why long-wear comfort is still the most praised thing about them. They travel in the hard case rather than around your neck.
No. The eight-speaker layout was designed around the hardest case, dense and fast music where everything competes for the same space. That engineering shows up as separation and width on everything else: films, podcasts, scores, jazz. The app has a 5-band EQ if you want to shape it further.
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