Life of Pi

Cliff Joseph test drives Bowers & Wilkins’ flagship earbuds and is wowed by their new design and innovative features

Providing impressive sound quality worthy of their top-of-the-range price, B&W’s Pi7 and Pi7 S2 (HFC 478 and 504 respectively) earbuds also introduced a genuine innovation with their ‘smart’ charging case that doubled up as an aptX transmitter for use with wired audio sources. The Pi7 models did have some limitations, though, and their battery life and noise-cancelling features weren’t quite in the same league as some rivals. So, the company went back to the drawing board and came up with an entirely new design for the Pi8. The somewhat chunky design of the Pi7 earbuds also left something to be desired, with B&W admitting they: “didn’t fit as well as we would have liked”. Available in a variety of colours, the Pi8 is still relatively large, but now adopts a…

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Hi-Fi Choice (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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