We’re as enamoured with low-profile, high-style headphones as anyone. But some occasions call for a more substantial rig: a Diesel-designed, Monster-powered rig, to be precise.

The VEKTR headphone is an adequate rebuttal to the ubiquity of cheap, mediocre earbuds that come bundled with devices. With the increase in heft comes a leap in sonic quality: bass lines, at last, offering up some worthy punch.

Call us perverse, but our eyes keep drifting back to that façade: angular, bold, gunmental accented – a strong, decisive step-up from the white-corded lemmings on the tube.

£179.95; dieselbymonster.com