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The sound of going places

Turns out we accidentally built an incredible travel headphone.

Customers have decided.

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.

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8-speaker immersive sound 50-hour battery Hard travel case included ($39 value) Wired + wireless
★★★★★ 4.7 / 5 from 1,059 verified reviews
Heavys H1H headphones resting at an airport gate window with an aircraft on stand at sunset Real customer photo · airport gate
As reviewed by SoundGuys PC Gamer Gaming Nexus Voted best travel headphones 2025-2026
One thing kept appearing in reviews without us asking

Dozens of customers
brought up travel
on their own.

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.

★★★★★

"Saved me on a 6 hour flight"

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.

Corey - verified buyer
★★★★★

"Tested on a flight from Dubai to Jeddah"

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.

Tim Canter - verified buyer
★★★★★

"Four flights and still at 50%"

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!

Jason Sola - verified buyer
★★★★★

"I love how I feel surrounded by the music"

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.

Leslie Solorzano - verified buyer
★★★★★

"On flights, in airports"

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.

Robert Ross - verified buyer
★★★★★

"A lifesaver when traveling"

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.

Karsten Häusler - verified buyer
★★★★★

"Airports or train stations"

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.

Justin Woodward - verified buyer
★★★★★

"Beyond excellent for the airplane"

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.

Mike O - verified buyer
★★★★★

"The case is so hard, great for traveling"

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.

Anthony - verified buyer
★★★★★

"I like these for travel"

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.

Jimmy Lazo - verified buyer
★★★★★

"It blocks out the NYC subway"

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.

Kayla - verified buyer
★★★★★

"After flying across the world for 12 hours"

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.

G.P. - verified buyer
Instagram post from a customer wearing Heavys H1H on a five hour flight to Miami
Posted from seat 14A

Not a campaign.
Just people flying.

"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.

Why it works at 38,000 feet

Seven things,
working together.

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.

Heavys H1H eight-speaker layout, four drivers per side
Four drivers per side. Two low/mid, two tweeters.
01 · immersive sound

A cinema, not
a pair of speakers.

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.

8Speakers, four per ear
5 Hz-46 kHzFrequency response, wired
>0.05%THD at 100 dB SPL, 1 kHz

"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
Heavys H1H ear cups and cushioned headband
Full around-the-ear cups with deep non-leather cushions.
02 · comfort you can sleep in

Soft enough
to fall asleep in.

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.

Around-earFull-size, not on-ear
Non-leatherCushioned, replaceable pads
2 sizesStandard and small-head headband

"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
144 reviews mention comfort, cushioning or the ear cups
Heavys H1H on an airplane tray table wired into the seat-back screen
Passive seal first. Hell Blocker™ on top.
03 & 04 · two layers of quiet

The ear cup does
the first half.

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.

PassiveHigh-efficiency PNC, the primary layer
+ ActiveHell Blocker™ on top
TransparencyThird position, same switch

"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
98 reviews mention noise cancelling or isolation
A traveller resting in an airplane window seat wearing Heavys H1H headphones
Your own world, at 38,000 feet.
05 · focus and detachment

Be in your own
world, anywhere.

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
Heavys H1H folded into its travel case with cables, passport and boarding pass
Aux and USB-C cables both in the box.
06 · wired when you want it

One cable does
everything.

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.

LaptopSteam DeckPhoneHotel TVChargingListening
2.5 → 3.5Aux cable included
0%Passive mode needs no battery
USB-CDigital audio in, charge at once

"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
19 reviews mention wired, aux or USB-C listening
Heavys H1H with the included hard shell travel case
Hard shell, moulded to the folded frame.
07 · hard case, in the box

The reason this
bundle exists.

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.

Hard shellRigid, zip close
$39Case value, included free
Folds flatCarry-on side pocket

"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 buyer
28 reviews mention the case
08 · fifty hours

One charge.
Three of the longest
flights on earth.

Fifty hours of playback, measured against the routes people actually dread. Charging is simply not a thing you think about on a trip.

Singapore → New York The longest scheduled flight in the world, 18h 50m
38%
Perth → London 17h 20m nonstop
35%
Tel Aviv → New York 12h 00m nonstop
24%
50Hours

"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 buyer
90 reviews mention battery life
In their words, not ours

What they were
flying with before.

We 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.

From Bose QC35 II

"Totally blown away by the sound quality and noise cancelling feature which I tested on a 3 hour flight."

Tim Canter
From AirPods Pro

"The biggest pro for the Heavys is the battery life. Lasts me multiple days at work."

Dylan Benson
From Sony XM4

"Way better than my Sony XM4's."

P.B.
From earbuds

"All of my earbuds sound 'flat' compared to these."

A.K.
A traveller moving through a sunlit airport terminal

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.

Heavys H1H headphones
  • 01 Heavys H1H headphones, wireless & wired
  • 02 Hard shell travel case $39 · included
  • 03 Original Heavys shells
  • 04 Aux cable, 2.5 → 3.5 mm
  • 05 USB-C charge & listen cable
  • 06 Certificate of authenticity, signed by Axel Grell
The full sheet

Specifications.

TypeFull-size around-the-ear, wired & wireless
Drivers per side4 - two low/mid-range, two high-frequency tweeters
Frequency response5 Hz - 46 kHz wired · 5 Hz - 24 kHz Bluetooth
Battery lifeUp to 50 hours
Bluetooth5.1 · SBC, AAC, aptX Adaptive
Noise cancellationHigh-efficiency passive (PNC) + Hell Blocker™ active
Operating modesWired Pure Passive · BT Passive · BT ANC · BT Transparent
Microphones2-microphone end-fire array for calls
Charging & inputUSB-C (digital audio in) · 2.5 → 3.5 mm aux
Weight410 g / 14.5 oz
THD>0.05% at 100 dB SPL, 1 kHz
Warranty1 year
Before you fly

Straight answers.

Will they work with the airplane's seat-back screen?

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.

What exactly is Hell Blocker?

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.

Can I actually sleep in them?

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.

Fifty hours - really?

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.

USB-C for audio, not just charging?

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 look big. Are they heavy?

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.

Do I need to like metal?

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.

Shipping, returns and warranty?

Free shipping on orders over $200, dispatched in 1-2 days. One-year warranty and easy returns through the standard Heavys policy. Payment plans from about $20/month are available at checkout.

Heavys H1H headphones at an airport gate at sunset

Your journey.
Your soundtrack.

8 speakers. Zero compromise.
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