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It's Adam with World Wide Stereo.
Today's video, we're going to go over the PX5 and the PX7 headphones
from Bowers & Wilkins.
We're going to dive into a little bit about their cosmetics,
how they're made, some sound quality things. But before I get started here,
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So, let's dig into the Bowers & Wilkins PX5s and the PX7s.
So, these are the Bowers & Wilkins PX7s, and these are the Bowers & Wilkins PX5
noise-canceling, Bluetooth headphones.
These are nice headphones made by the same people that actually designed the 800
Series Diamond loudspeakers from Bowers & Wilkins, and they have a lot of things
that are similar about them.
If you look at the construction of them, they both use this nice carbon fiber
material right here.
You got the fabric on the top and on the sides, they have color options.
The PX7s come in either space gray or silver, and the PX5s come in a gray
or blue finish.
So, the other thing that really differentiates these headphones are the
size of the drivers that are in them.
The PX7s have a larger one, and you can kind of see that based on the size.
So, I'd say the PX7s certainly sound the best, but, you know, the PX5s aren't
that bad either.
These both sound really good, but I think the biggest difference here is
that the PX7 is an over-the-ear headphone, and the PX5 is an on-ear headphone.
So, if you have a preference one way or the other, you might make
your selection there.
So, let's take a closer look at these headphones here.
PX7s, you'll see on the back here, you have your power.
You have your kind of multifunction control where you can volume up,
and volume down, the middle button in here is play and pause.
If you tap twice, it skips forward.
So, very common controls there.
The other one on the side here, and you'll find this on both these headphones, is
this is how you control the noise-canceling circuit.
You can either have it on high, low or auto, auto is it's automatically
going to kind of figure out the best noise-canceling mode based on your
environment that you're in.
So, if you're in a very, very noisy environment,
it's going to obviously put the noise canceling to max.
The last thing this button does for you, if you press and hold it,
it engages ambient mode, which quiets down your music, okay?
Almost to just a little bit of volume is coming out of them, but it opens up, so
now I can hear everything that's happening around me.
So, if I'm walking around, I need to have a conversation
with somebody real quick, I press and hold this button,
my music comes down, and now I can actually really hear what's going on all
around me, and that really works very well on these over-the-ear
and on-ear headphones.
I love that circuit.
On both of the models, around the back here, you'll get your USB-C charging port.
Now, supplied in the box is going to be a USB-C to USB-A connection.
They don't give you any type of, like, wall brick or anything like that,
so you either have to plug it into a USB hub, or any standard little USB wall
brick will work.
On both the PX7 and PX5, the other really cool feature they have is
when you put them on your head and you're listening to your music,
what you can do while you're listening, if you lift one ear cup,
that'll automatically pause the music for you, and then when you put it back, it'll
start playing it again.
And that's a feature that B&W has been doing for quite some time,
but it's available on the PX7 and also the PX5s.
As I mentioned before, the PX7s are an over-the-ear headphone, and
I found them very comfortable.
They used to have a square design before in the older B&W headphones.
This newer design I think is much better.
Nice, bigger oval cup, very, very soft.
So, nice comfort.
It feels good around my ears, and it fits well, gets a nice seal going on there.
So, I didn't notice any difference.
Some people always ask me if there's a difference between, you know,
the over-the-ear or the on-ear for the active noise-canceling circuit, and trying
these out, I didn't really notice any difference between them.
Made some phone calls on all of these, and the call quality is good.
You know, I can't say it's great, I have had better experience with some
other headphones, but it's good enough people could hear me on the other end.
It wasn't like they couldn't understand me at all.
So again, here are the PX5s, and again, they fit pretty good right over my ear.
You adjust them up top here.
I like using the adjustments right there with my thumbs.
There we go, and it's all pretty good.
They look pretty good.
So, let's talk a little bit about battery life here.
The PX5s will give you about a 25-hour usage on their battery.
The PX7s, as you can see, because they're bigger, it looks like they have a bigger
battery in there as well.
So, you'll get about 30 hours.
Now, I think one of the coolest features is they have, like, a rapid charging mode,
so with only 15 minutes of a charge, and again plugged in USB-C,
USB-A into a hub or a brick that plugs into the wall, whatever.
You're going to get about five hours of listening time out of them.
One last connection I want to talk about here on the bottom here is you do have a
standard analog headphone input.
You can plug that into any device that has a standard analog output.
The headphones do need to be on though, so they have to be charged and on in order
for that headphone to accept an input from the analog source.
So, anytime you want to use the headphone, whether it's Bluetooth,
whether it's an analog in, the headphones do need to be charged
and powered on.
So overall, I had a good chance to play with these for about a week, and I would
say they sound great.
I mean, they're everything I'd expect out of a Bowers & Wilkins high-end
headphone or speaker.
They sound fantastic.
Ooh, one little keynote, I love how they label on the inside left and right.
That's just a thing of mine.
Whenever you pick up headphones it's like, "Which one's the left?
Which one's the right?"
Well, they've labeled it for you, right on the inside cup.
So, they made it really easy.
Thank you.
Now, they sound really good.
And also the on-ears as well.
Personal preference, I don't like on-ear all that much.
Only thing, I wear earrings, so it sometimes pushes against the back there.
That can be a little bit of annoyance.
But other than that, I mean, they felt good around my ear.
They created a nice seal on my ear.
So, the sound quality was great, good bass response.
Wasn't too bright or harsh sounding, anything like that.
They sounded good.
I made some phone calls with these.
Like I said, the phone call quality was nice.
It wasn't the best I've ever had, but it was good.
It's sufficient, you know, over the years, sometimes struggle
with that because the microphone is so far away anyway.
So, I had to say overall, like, I think the best call quality
with these kind of headphones is going to be an in-ear one because the microphone
usually sits closer to the mouth anyway.
But overall, everything I'd expect out of an over-the-ear headphone,
I was very pleased.
I liked the new cosmetic design, the comfort, really good job, Bowers.
So, these are the Bowers & Wilkins PX7 and PX5 headphones they'll be available
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