The Nothing Headphone (1) Pro is coming to the Philippines at ₱25,490, with pre-orders opening October 1 at Digital Walker, Beyond the Box, and Nothing's official Shopee and Lazada stores. The over-ear flagship arrives in black and white, and it lands with a bigger announcement attached: BTS member V is Nothing's new global brand ambassador and the face of the campaign.
The local price is unusually close to the US figure of $399 (around ₱25,000) — a near one-to-one conversion, where imported audio gear in the Philippines often carries a much larger premium.
A triple-driver system with an xMEMS tweeter
What separates the Headphone (1) Pro from most wireless headphones is its three-driver architecture, detailed on Nothing's official spec page. A 40mm dynamic driver handles bass, a 13×8mm precision dynamic driver covers the midrange, and an xMEMS solid-state driver — a tiny silicon speaker with a silicone diaphragm — sharpens the treble. The combination is rated for a 20Hz–40,000Hz frequency response and carries Hi-Res Audio certification.
Codec support covers LDAC, AAC, SBC and LC3 over Bluetooth 6.1 with dual-device connection, and wired listening over USB-C reaches 24-bit/192kHz. Dynamic Spatial Audio with head tracking is on board, alongside a set of venue-styled listening modes — Standard, Live House, Club, Concert Hall and Studio B — and quick pairing with Android, Windows and Apple devices via Google Fast Pair, Microsoft Swift Pair and Apple pairing. Physical controls stay tactile rather than touch-based: a roller, a paddle, a button and an EQ switch.
ANC, battery and build
Noise cancellation uses ten microphones and is rated at up to 46dB of adaptive ANC. Nothing's official battery figures are up to 30 hours with ANC on and up to 68 hours with it off, and a five-minute charge adds about four hours of playback.
The build moves upmarket from the standard Headphone (1): a machined aluminum body with titanium-alloy arms, 9H Panda Glass windows on the ear cups that show off the driver hardware, IP52 dust and water resistance, and a weight of 327 grams. Nothing says the design passed more than 50,000 durability test cycles. Comfort got attention too — Engadget reports the ear cushions are 50% softer and the headband 10% wider than the standard model's, and the headphones ship with a padded hardcase styled with a late-90s, early-2000s look.
The studio switch
The most unusual feature is subtractive. Engadget's coverage highlights a physical switch that turns off the equalizer and spatial audio entirely, giving a flat response intended for accurately monitoring mixed audio — a mode Nothing developed with London's Metropolis Studios. Most consumer headphones pile on EQ modes; this one lets professionals and purists switch them all off. The same coverage notes Auracast support, with transmitter and receiver modes managed through the companion app.
Should Filipino buyers pre-order?
At ₱25,490, the Headphone (1) Pro sits in the same bracket as established flagship ANC headphones from Sony and Bose, and above Apple's earbuds line — see our coverage of the AirPods 5 with ANC at ₱9,490 for the budget end of that spectrum. The pitch here is different: a genuinely distinctive driver stack, wired hi-res support, and the studio-flat mode, in a design that looks like nothing else on the shelf. What is not yet available is independent review data on how the xMEMS tweeter actually sounds against the incumbents — early hands-on coverage is positive on features, but full reviews were not out at the time of writing. Buyers who care mainly about proven ANC performance may want to wait for those; buyers sold on the design and format can order from October 1.
