Bowers & Wilkins - PX7 S2e

Check out the B&W they have some great head phones and within your budget, I just ordered px7 s2 yesterday and they have a great sound 🔊

Bowers&Wilkins Px7. Good enough for me, I'm far from an expert and cant wear overars too long regardless of model.

Good enough for me. Still get warm ears. Havent looked in the App in a Long time.

So, there is a lot to unpack here. 1. AirPods Pro are actually great sounding earbuds, so you’re starting from a good place. 2. You’re right to move away from the APMs and XM4/5, although you may enjoy the Apple sound. Bang for the buck, it’s good about tech, though, not sound. 3. You can do a LOT with just wired headphones, if you’re OK with that. Not all of them need amps. A great example is the Grado sr325x: great sound, easy to drive. There are plenty of others in the wired world worth considering. If you prefer bass, for example, the Meze 99 Classic or 99 Noir would be good. For something more neutral, the HifiMan Ananda. All of these work great with just a $9 Apple dongle. And even if you DO need an amp, something like an iFi Go Link Max would fulfill any needs you have with modern headphones, so a Sennheiser 6xx + one of those would get you where you want. 4. If you’re dead set on wireless, check out the Sennheiser Momentum 4, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra (which often sells for under $400), and the Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2 or S2e. (The S3 comes in at over $400.) All of these have decidedly different sound, and it will depend on what you like. Given your experience with the AirPods, the Sennheiser is probably your best bet. 5. Finally, for $350, you can find an incredible IEM, which might get you exactly where you want: the best sound for the money. But “best” is very relative here, since physics starts to play into the overall picture. Best of luck!

I recently bought the B&W PX7 S3 and returned them. I had the PX7 S2 and was expecting more, but I couldn't get them tuned in to my liking. The bass was lovely and smooth, the heading up the frequencies it was either too harsh or too dull, it was very difficult to get the right balance. I've tried the EQ in the app and Wavelet but neither could make them sound how I like. They just seem to lack a level of intimate richness. The search goes on, at the moment looking at the Focal Bathys but they're a little bit more than I'd like to spend!

I would suggest B&W PX7s3 or Dali Io-8 if you can stretch your budget. Under 250 euros, go for a discounted B&W Px7S2e and nothing will come close for classical listening.

Picked up a pair of Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2e’s. Very happy with them. As they're not the most current model or the top of the line from B&W you should be able to find some for under $500.

Physics says no to the perfect ANC pair. The damping frequencies interfere with the bass range, so a designer has to make the choice to either sacrifice sound balance and boost the bass to compensate (Sony, Bose) or to hold back on the ANC strength to preserve sound quality (Sennheiser, Focal). You just can't have the best of both at the same time. The B&W Px8 and Px7 S2/S3 are other options that offer a good balance between those factors though, and I was also pleasantly surprised by the Final UX3000 - cheaper than you'd expect, but it trades app features and touch controls to give you good sound and ANC at a lower price and does have that rare feature of a separate ANC switch for when you just want silence. The sound does turn harsh when you then try to listen to music without the ANC on, though.

b&w px7 s2e user here. Love them. Wired (to phone via usb-c) is superb when using Apple Music lossless playback. Bluetooth is also solid. Very comfortable for multi hour usage and good noise cancelling. Hard shell carry case included. Build quality is good and aesthetics are muted/discrete.

Unpopular opinion: Any hifi headphone will be enough. I spent months researching on reddit what headphone should I get and long story short, it was a waste of time. I ended up buying wireless headphones (Bowers and Wilkins) and they are amazing even though nobody recommend them for gaming. Just buy the one that you like best. Here you will jump around beyerdynamics, senheiser, audio technica, hifiman, sony and many more. All of that just to be even more lost than the beginning. Any hifi headphone over 200usd will be good. You will loose your mind if you constantly see all the reviews that people recommend because for every each one of them, there is a thread that says how bad they are, or how one has this and the other doesn't, just to end up on another thread saying the complete opposite because they are amazing.The only advice that I would give to you is don't buy headphones that are made for gaming if you want hifi quality headphone sound. Also, build quality and comfort it's just not there. The only point in favor is the mic, but you can easily get an external mic, and it will be way cheaper.

I have the Bowers & Wilkins px7 s2e, and I love them. I bought them mainly to listen to music and gaming. Don't listen to anybody who says you get input lag. I used them wired to game and they are perfect.Theye are amazingly comfortable and sound great. Really, any high fi wireless headphone works. You maybe don't get the input response of a gaming headset, but man that's really not important unless your fucking life depends on your headphones ability to hear a footstep 1ms sooner. Also, gaming headsets build and sound quality is horrible.

I'm going to sound grumpy but the px7 is not at all natural, it is nasal, sibile, it's detailed and very poorly balanced, if you want to eq your px7 there will be distortion. I find that this headset is a huge scam, if you want hifi sound, avoid bluetooth or take a focal bathys which is the only one to be hifi wireless, otherwise the airpods max and the xm6 are the 2 best headsets with the best sound behind the bathys, but no other brand sounds better than these 2 on the wireless market.