Headphones Reviews - iT7x review

iT7 Audio is the brainchild of former Premier League footballer Ian Taylor (you may remember him regularly arriving in both boxes with perfect timing, wearing the colours of Aston Villa, Derby County and Sheffield Wednesday, after starting out at Port Vale). The iT7x are noise-isolating Bluetooth over-ear headphones put together by Bluechip. See also: Group test: what's the best headphones?

The iT7x headset isn't cheap, but it does offer a superior quality of build and audio to your average me-too headset, with a healthy feature set. And these headphones offer a certain style - it won't be to everyone's taste but the iT7x's stylings are guaranteed to attract attention. For the right reasons, too: despite blasting our ears with all maer of loud music none of my colleagues could hear any sound leekage. With both Bluetooth and wired coectivity you can use the iT7x with your smartphone, as well as an MP3 player or tablet.

iT7x: build quality, design comfort

 

Right out of the box you know that with iT7 Audio you are traveling in style. Open up the packaging and you'll see that the iT7x headset is delivered in a high-quality reinforced cardboard box. Everything is laid out to perfection, and even the obligatory carry bag is of a decent quality and carries a certain style. You might even use it.

The iT7x headset itself is the kind of big-cans, hard-case, block-colour design that one might appropriately expect to see hanging around the neck of a footballer in a post-match interview. Available in white or black, a thick padded band traverses your lost-in-music skull. Your ears are enveloped in large padded cans, on the outside of which are chunky, confident buttons. In the left-side ear-cup is a USB rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Covering your right ear is a huge power button, around which dances volume and track-finding controls.

In terms of style, suffice to say that one colleague remarked of these headphones that they 'look remarkably like Beats by Dr Dre, but they are not'. This is a good thing. The iT7x headphones are far from discreet, but if you are shelling out this kind of cash for a headset you probably want people to notice and admire. And the build quality feels robust: headphones take a beating, and you don't want to be worried about protecting your investment.

One price you pay for wireless coectivity and life-proof build is in weight. At 250g the iT7x headset is far from light, but the balance and comfort are excellent, and we found wearing them for lengthy periods perfectly comfortable.