

It all works satisfyingly well once you’re used to the different movements and presses, and we find that the length of touch required is quite sensible – short and soft enough not to be distracting, but needing enough of a deliberate input to prevent pretty much all unintentional requests from registering. The headset has the increasingly common trick of allowing in extraneous noise if you hold your hand over the earpiece with the headphones still in place – useful for train announcements somewhat disconcerting for someone trying to have a conversation with the wearer.Īnd, if you remove the headphones and hang them around your neck, playback is automatically paused, then restarted when the Fidelio 元 are put back on your ears where they truly belong. Everything any normal user could want is accessible here: play/pause, call answer, volume up and down, track skip forward and back. All other important control functions are performed via the touch-sensitive pad on the right earcup.
