Harman Kardon Soho Wireless headphone review

As stylish as the Soho Wireless are, perhaps the strongest characteristic of their design is just how functional and easy to use they are. As mentioned, the ear pieces slide smoothly on their sparkling steel arms for easy extension when fitting them to your ears, and it’s just as easy to fold them into a brilliantly compact package when it’s time to put them away.
The square earpieces offer a fit that’s just slightly awkward on your rounded ears, but the pads are ample, and the pieces rotate to just about any angle, and lay completely flat for storage. Thanks to HK’s sharp focus on saving space, these already diminutive cans take up around half the space when tucked away, losing out only to the teeny V-Moda XS as the most compact headphones we’ve traveled with.
A Bluetooth connection makes the Soho Wireless all the more convenient to cart around, and wearing them around the neck makes for an easy way to bounce back and forth between music and the world around you. Hidden at the underside of the right earpiece is the only traditional button on board, which is held down for Bluetooth pairing, and controls power with a tap. Right next door is a 3.5mm input for hardwiring the headphones, and a flap that hides a micro USB charging port.
The rest of the controls are handled with simple gestures on the right earpiece’s exterior surface. Tapping the leatherette surface once controls play/pause and calling, while volume and song skip are controlled by sliding vertically or horizontally respectively. It’s an intuitive system that we’re glad to see increasingly adopted in the headphone world.