Bowers & Wilkins PX7 Wireless noise-canceling headphones | Crutchfield

Hi, I'm Jeff Miller, the headphone writer here at Crutchfield, and I'm here with

the Bowers and Wilkins PX7 Wireless noise-canceling Bluetooth headphones. B&W

is known for making really good sounding loudspeakers, they have some of the best

speakers we offer. They've also been crushing it lately with headphones. These

are some of the fines- sounding noise cancelling headphones that we have. It

has Bluetooth 5.0, it's the latest, greatest version of Bluetooth, better

reliability and better sound quality, all that good stuff.

It also has aptX Adaptive, which is a wireless technology that I haven't seen

in a headphone before. It prioritizes reliability or quality, kind of depending

on your situation. It'll even take into account whether

you're watching a video and fixing the kind of latency issues and that kind of

thing. One of the most important things to

mention up front is is the comfort. This is it's kind of the second generation of

B&W's noise cancellation headphones, the last version was the PX Wireless, which

were very, very popular at Crutchfield, but they were kind of an acquired

taste. They were a little too snug for my, for my taste, and the and the ear cups

were stiff. Some people really liked it, they liked the fact that it didn't move

around when you moved your head, but it was just a little too much for me.

I think they've improved here, it feels a lot lighter on your head, the ear

cups are rounder and softer, they give your ears a little bit more room to

breathe. It is a snug fit for sure, but now I think it it works better with a

larger range of head sizes. So I should go over the build of the headphones, it's

one of the best put-together headphones that you'll find. They've got ballistic nylon

lining everything, and woven carbon fiber making up kind of the frame of the

headphone, so really sturdy and feel comfortable throwing them in a bag. The

noise cancelling is really powerful, they use a kind of a hybrid mic system, you

have three different levels that you can scroll through using the controls on the

side. You can also if you need to be aware of your surroundings or listen

to the conversation, you can hit the ambient pass-through button and use

those mics to instantly pick up the external sounds. So again, I mainly

listen wirelessly, you get about 30 hours of wireless use with noise cancellation

on a full charge. They include a listening cable, but I should mention

that they don't have passive listening mode, you have to use the internal

circuitry, so you keep the headphones charged up when you

want to use them. This also means it won't do any good to connect to a headphone amp or

anything like that, you're going to be using the amplifier that's built into

the headphones. Let's talk about sound quality a little bit. The same team that

created the B&W flagship speakers helped inform the design of the drivers,

and I think there's some of the best noise cancelling headphones that I've

heard yet. Very refined sound. Perhaps appropriately I listened to the new Abbey

Road remix, a very spacious sound larger than the headphones themselves, very

controlled bass response. You know, everything is punchy, tight, the vocals

are really clear. I think the imaging is pretty good because a lot of the ad-libs

that they add into the Beatles records, you could hear them off to the side, to

the corner, up above you, all kinds of stuff, and this is listening wirelessly.

so I had the aptX HD from my phone, Amazon Music HD, so I had CD quality

coming through, these headphones took full advantage of that. So that's the B&W

PX7 Wireless headphones. If you have any questions, feel free to leave us a

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