Vic Firth Bluetooth Isolation Headphones

The Vic Firth brand should be familiar to drummers in particular. The company, which now belongs to Avedis Zildjian and was founded by Everett Joseph “Vic” Firth, who died in 2015, is the world’s leading producer of drumsticks and percussion mallets. So it’s not entirely surprising that they have headphones in their range that are specially designed to meet the requirements of drummers. Inevitably, this means you get a pair of closed headphones that offer a high degree of external noise attenuation. On the one hand, to protect the drummer’s hearing from the loudness of his own drum kit, and on the other hand, so that they can be fed a monitoring signal that is as isolated as possible during rehearsals, as well as in studio or live situations. The VXHP0012, developed on the basis of their predecessor SIH-2, make this possible with an external noise attenuation of a whopping 20 decibels. What’s more, the latest version tested here offers all the benefits of modern headphones, such as Bluetooth connectivity with an integrated hands-free kit, media control and volume control. And if you forget to charge the built-in 500 mA battery, which provides up to 20 hours of operation, the headphones can still be connected the traditional wired way to vibrate the two 50 millimetre Mylarcon drivers.