Bowers & Wilkins PX Headphones Review: Good, Wireless Audio

Bowers & Wilkins is known to produce high-quality devices pertinent to audiophiles, and their latest invention — the Bowers & Wilkins PX headphones — continues that tradition.

BOWERS & WILKINS PX HEADPHONES REVIEW

The PX pulls from the wealth of experience Bowers & Wilkins has accumulated “to take you to the very heart of the music with its breath-taking performance.” This can be discerned through the PX’s design, which reflects the B&W aesthetic, as well as through its bundled carrying case and cable. (The latter is for using the PX in wired mode.) With regard to its connectivity, the PX supports Bluetooth 4.1.

Construction of the PX also channels the experience Bowers & Wilkins has garnered. The PX utilizes the same drives as B&W’s P9 signature headphones, giving the PX a nice sound quality. As with competing wireless headphones, the PX offers noise cancelation. Through the PX’s smartphone companion app, you can toggle between three settings: City, Flight and Office. You can also fine-tune other settings, such as environmental filters or you can turn off noise cancellation altogether. However, CNET found the PX’s noise cancellation, while not bad, failed to match that of its competitors.

One pleasant innovation is how the PX will stop playing when you lift an ear cup off your ear. You can dislodge the PX off your head if you need to focus on something, and it will resume exactly where it left off when its ballistic nylon ear cups are again covering your ears. At minimum, the PX will last for 22 hours, allowing you to enjoy your tracklist on the go all day. Fifty hours is given as the maximum, depending on your settings.

The Bowers & Wilkins PX headphones come in two hues, soft gold and space gray. They both cost $399.