- Px8 S2 is ‘the best Bowers & Wilkins headset has made’
- APTX without loss and adaptive; 8 MICS (instead of 6 in Px8)
- Available today, September 24, with a price of $ 799 / £ 629 (around AU $ 1,289)
Now. When a firm like Bowers & Wilkins tells us that it has just created a set of headphones on the ear that establishes “a new reference point for performance and design in the wireless ear category,” it is worth noticing. Because? Ah, because both Bowers and Wilkins Px8 and newer (even better) Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 on which they are built are so incredibly good headphones.
So how has B&W be overcome with the PX8 S2, or to put it in another way, what is your main offer to enter our best headache purchase guide? Often, it is a case of minor adjustments and incremental profits with these things, but there are some information cups on the B&W specifications sheet this time they make the updates between iterations obvious.
First, there is a new Bluetooth chipset in the PX8 S2 built in Bluetooth 5.3 instead of 5.2, to offer “true 24 -bit audio connection/96 kHz” through USB more APTX without adaptive losses and 24/96 (instead of APTX HD on the oldest set).
There is also an eight microphones matrix where all MICs are used for telephony and six are used for active noise cancellation (six of the microphones are external; two internal monitor audio), which is an update of the six microphone matrix in the PX8, where four of the microphones are responsible for ANC and only two helped by hand.
Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2: What you need to know
In another place, there is a new quality call quality algorithm, and although the same 40mm dynamic cone controller reappears on each cover, B&W has updated the chassis and the engine that feeds it to help obtain more nuances and details of its music.
The battery life is still a claimed 30 hours (which is not an improvement in the oldest model and can demonstrate a slight conflict point given the 100 -hour battery of the Melomania P100 from Sonicidid), but now obtains a five band EQ tab to adjust the sound firm to your liking, which is a solid step of the two low/trebales of bands available in the oldest PX8.
Luxurious Nappa Leather covers almost all construction with class, but the aluminum arm mechanism has a new detail of the exposed cable. Do these metal accents make them heavier? Not really, headphones are a tiny A little smaller and lighter than the original PX8, but B & W has definitely thinned the housing so that they are easier to fit in its bag.
But what B&W really wants you to know is that these headphones have a high -performance audio processing configuration with dedicated DSP and amplifier/Dac (read: not the digital converter to analogue integrated in the chipset: B & W does not trust anything but your own solution there), because if you do not take away nothing more than this monitor I work there), if you don’t remove anything else from this misfortune, I know that I have met with the makers, and the argon and argon to do the job there). In fact He wants to make the pair of more subtle headphones in the world.
Has the United Kingdom company achieved its goal? We are working on a complete review: I have a couple (see the attached images) and we will give that verdict as soon as we can. For now, he knows that the launch of Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 today (September 24) in his election of ‘Onyx Black’ or ‘Warm Stone’, with a price of $ 799 / £ 629 (around Au $ 1,289).
