BOWERS & WILKINS PX8

This is an impressive quartet, but it’s the B&Ws that put in a gold-medal-winning performance

Each model tested here offers something quite different. The Sonos Ace have unique selling points for Sonos customers, and also promise to deliver more moving forward. But we can only judge in the here and now and for all the positives relating to design and ergonomics and how smart the TV Swap feature is, the competition simply overpowers them when it comes to noise-cancelling and sound quality. Their lack of clarity, detail and dynamics sees them fall well short of the top performers in this company. The podium finishers So, we move from the periphery to the epicentre of this contest where there are three outstanding pairs of headphones battling for the top spot. And it is testament to the AirPods Max, the oldest pair here, that they have managed…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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