Daisy One Review: Comfy and Tactile Headphones
Daisy One Review: Comfy and Tactile Headphones
Daisy One 评测：舒适且极具质感的耳机
$399 at Daisy. Rating: 6/10. Daisy 售价 399 美元。评分：6/10。
TIRED: Buttons! Knobs! No touch controls! Elegant. Good build quality. Comfy fit. Great battery life. Cheaper than the (flagship) competition. 优点： 实体按键！旋钮！没有触控操作！外观优雅。做工精良。佩戴舒适。电池续航出色。比（旗舰级）竞品更便宜。
TIRED: Sound quality is fine. Just fine. Noise canceling is bad, and transparency mode is worse. 缺点： 音质尚可，但也仅限于“尚可”。降噪效果很差，通透模式则更糟糕。
I wish the Daisy One headphones sounded as nice as they look. 我真希望 Daisy One 耳机的音质能像它的外观一样出色。
The Daisy One is the first pair of headphones from Daisy, a California company that employs engineers formerly from the Samsung-owned audio company Harman Professional Solutions. Together with a sound system developed by Utah-based ((nxc)) systems, the Daisy One is attempting to burst its way into a very saturated premium audio market Kool-Aid-Man style, with a focus on design and tactical buttons. Daisy One 是加州公司 Daisy 推出的首款耳机，该公司聘请了原三星旗下音频公司 Harman Professional Solutions 的工程师。通过与犹他州 ((nxc)) systems 公司合作开发的音响系统，Daisy 试图以一种“破墙而入”的姿态闯入竞争激烈的顶级音频市场，其核心卖点在于设计感和实体按键。
You’ve probably seen the ads for these headphones on Instagram. They seemed pervasive on social media, at least for a little while, vying for eyeballs as they enter an industry dominated by massive companies like Sony, Apple, and Bose. By focusing on design, Daisy wants to go head-to-head with premium headphone manufacturers that make the best headphones. The Daisies are gorgeous, comfy, and at $349, definitely cheaper than many other options. But if you’re an audiophile or stickler for sound quality, you’re probably better off saving your money for something else. 你可能在 Instagram 上看到过这款耳机的广告。它们在社交媒体上似乎无处不在，至少在一段时间内，它们在索尼、苹果和 Bose 等巨头主导的行业中极力争取消费者的眼球。通过专注于设计，Daisy 希望与制造顶级耳机的厂商正面竞争。Daisy 耳机外观华丽、佩戴舒适，349 美元的定价确实比许多其他选择更便宜。但如果你是一位发烧友或对音质有严格要求，或许把钱花在别处会更好。
Before the product launched, Daisy CEO Jack Mulroe said the motivation for making Daisy was a lack of differentiation in headphones. He believes the market has been stale since Beats by Dre blew up with its very colorful (now Apple-owned) headsets. That said, the first wave of Daisy headphones comes in just three colors: Silver, Pacific (blue), and Kelp (greenish brown). I’ve been demoing a pair of the Pacific blues and genuinely like wearing them. The build quality is great. An array of aluminum and TR90 polymers makes these feel top shelf. 在产品发布前，Daisy 首席执行官 Jack Mulroe 表示，开发 Daisy 的初衷是耳机市场缺乏差异化。他认为自 Beats by Dre 凭借色彩鲜艳的耳机（现归苹果所有）走红以来，市场一直处于停滞状态。话虽如此，首批 Daisy 耳机仅提供三种颜色：银色、太平洋蓝和海带绿（绿褐色）。我一直在试用太平洋蓝版本，确实很喜欢佩戴它的感觉。做工非常出色，铝材和 TR90 聚合物的组合让它质感十足。
The Daisy One comes in a very nice box that Mulroe says is meant to feel like a book you’d place on a library shelf. It is nice, but I’m going to gently accuse the company of preying on the millennial need to hoard empty boxes, certain they’ll need them later. The included carrying case is a smooth, equally elegant lump that snaps closed with a magnetic latch. Daisy One 的包装盒非常精美，Mulroe 说它的设计初衷是让人感觉像是一本放在书架上的书。包装确实不错，但我不得不委婉地指出，该公司是在利用千禧一代喜欢囤积空盒、总觉得以后会用得上的心理。随附的便携包是一个光滑且同样优雅的收纳盒，通过磁吸扣闭合。
The headphones are slightly heavier than some of the other primo cans on the market, but the earpads’ soft cushions work really well to squish around glasses. I can keep them on for hours at a time and not feel the need to pull them off. But they’re not so lightweight that I tend to forget I’m wearing them, unlike my pair of Sony WH-1000XM4s. The earcups magnetically attach, so they pop off easily if you need to replace them. 这款耳机比市面上其他一些顶级耳机稍重，但耳罩的柔软衬垫在佩戴眼镜时表现良好。我可以连续佩戴数小时而无需摘下。不过，它们并没有轻到让我忘记佩戴感，这一点与我的索尼 WH-1000XM4 不同。耳罩采用磁吸式设计，如果需要更换，可以轻松拆卸。
The Daisies do have a bit of heft, but that also translates into a tactility that other, more plasticky headphones don’t convey. They also last a long time, rated at 45 hours of battery life. I never had a problem with having to recharge them. The headphones have a 3.5-mm aux port and a USB-C audio connection that supports 24-bit digital audio at 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz. After the product launched, Daisy said it signed paperwork with Sony to release LDAC support, Sony’s high-res Bluetooth codec, via an over-the-air update later this year. Daisy 耳机确实有些分量，但这转化为一种其他塑料感较强的耳机所不具备的触感。它们的续航时间也很长，额定电池寿命为 45 小时。我从未遇到过需要频繁充电的问题。耳机配有 3.5 毫米辅助接口和 USB-C 音频连接，支持 44.1 kHz 或 48 kHz 的 24 位数字音频。产品发布后，Daisy 表示已与索尼签署协议，将在今年晚些时候通过 OTA 更新支持索尼的高分辨率蓝牙编解码器 LDAC。
The volume dial is easily the best part of the Daisy headphones. Maybe one of the best dials on any headphones, especially in this price range. It’s a scored metal knob that rolls very smoothly. Press the side to pause or play the music with a very satisfying click. Double-click to skip a song, triple-tap to go one track back. It’s very straightforward. 音量旋钮无疑是 Daisy 耳机最棒的部分。它可能是所有耳机中最好的旋钮之一，尤其是在这个价位段。这是一个带有刻纹的金属旋钮，滚动非常顺滑。按下侧面可以暂停或播放音乐，伴随着令人满意的点击感。双击跳过歌曲，三击返回上一曲。操作非常直观。
Long-press the active noise cancellation button behind the dial to activate Still Mode, where a series of Daisy’s on-device relaxing soundscapes take over. You can switch between soft, ambient water-based sounds that Daisy says are recorded across California, such as rainfall, a forest stream, a waterfall, and ocean waves. There is also a five-minute breathwork session that sounds much less wet. It’s all very zen, and a nice feature to be able to quickly swap to when you need to chill out. 长按旋钮后的主动降噪按钮可激活“静谧模式”（Still Mode），此时 Daisy 内置的一系列放松音景会随之播放。你可以在 Daisy 声称录制于加州各地的柔和环境水声之间切换，例如雨声、森林溪流、瀑布和海浪声。此外还有一个五分钟的呼吸练习，听起来没那么“潮湿”。这一切都非常禅意，当你需要放松时，能快速切换到这个功能确实很不错。
The headphones do not incorporate any touch controls, which is a godsend. There is no accidentally pausing or triggering an AI assistant when you’re just trying to change the volume. You can switch between noise canceling and transparency modes with the press of a button. 这款耳机没有任何触控操作，这简直是天赐之物。当你只想调节音量时，再也不会误触暂停或触发 AI 助手。你只需按下一个按钮，即可在降噪和通透模式之间切换。
The problem? The noise canceling and transparency modes are not very good. Walking out when it’s windy or sitting on a loud subway train going underground is almost worse with noise canceling on, as it distorts the sound into sharp, loud blasts. Transparency mode just doesn’t let much sound in from the outside and distorts the audio quality. These features aren’t great, though Daisy says it’s aware of the issue and is aiming to fix it with software updates over time. But you should never buy a product based on the promises of future software updates. 问题在于，降噪和通透模式表现并不理想。在有风的天气外出或乘坐嘈杂的地下地铁时，开启降噪反而更糟糕，因为它会将声音扭曲成尖锐刺耳的爆音。通透模式无法引入足够的外部声音，且会扭曲音频质量。这些功能表现不佳，尽管 Daisy 表示已意识到该问题，并计划通过后续的软件更新进行修复。但你永远不应该基于未来软件更新的承诺去购买产品。
The companion app is simple to use, which is nice, but the sound choices are underwhelming. It comes default on a mode called Daisy EQ, with a dynamic bass feature turned on. That works well enough for bass-heavy EDM, though it does sound noticeably muddier than my Sony WH-1000XM4. Switching the EQ to a flat sound profile reveals the real weakness of these headphones. The sound quality just feels more hollow than it should, with highs sounding tinny and the lows coming across as very unenthusiastic without the dynamic bass setting on. (Call quality is fine, and nobody on the other end of a call said I came through weird.) 配套的应用程序使用简单，这很好，但音效选项令人失望。它默认开启名为“Daisy EQ”的模式，并启用了动态低音功能。这对于低音沉重的电子舞曲来说效果尚可，但听起来明显比我的索尼 WH-1000XM4 更浑浊。将 EQ 切换到平直音效配置后，这款耳机的真正弱点就暴露无遗。音质感觉比应有的水平更空洞，高音听起来很单薄，而在关闭动态低音设置后，低音表现也显得非常乏力。（通话质量尚可，通话对方也没有说我的声音听起来很奇怪。）
That’s probably the sacrifice you have to make when trying to save a couple of hundred bucks over top-tier headphones. But the Daisies are also cheaper than they could have been. When the company announced the product, it listed the price at $399. Now, it has dropped to $349. 这或许就是为了比顶级耳机省下几百美元所必须做出的牺牲。但 Daisy 的价格也比最初预期的要低。当该公司宣布该产品时，定价为 399 美元。现在，价格已降至 349 美元。