The Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 replace the excellent Px7 S2e, raising the bar for wireless headphone audio.
Despite looking relatively the same as the older models, B&W have given it a significant overhaul. The headband has been redesigned to fit a wider range of heads, the controls reshaped to be easier to find and use, while the headphones are slimmer for a more attractive profile.
The only issue we have is with the controls, which we didn’t feel as if they needed to be changed but they work fine enough.
These headphones feature noise cancelling and a transparency mode and despite Bower’s claims of improving both areas, the noise cancelling isn’t as strong as the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones or Sony WH-1000XM6. The transparency mode could be clearer too. ANC is not these headphones’ strongest point.
The Bowers & Wilkins Music app offers the means to customise bass and treble, as well as a custom EQ option to create your own sound profile, a first for a pair of Bowers wireless headphones.
These headphones keep the feature set relatively simple, and aren’t as ‘smart’ or as feature-laded as the less expensive Sony WH-1000XM5 but the app does have built-in streaming support for services such as Qobuz, Deezer, and Tidal.
The battery life remains 30 hours of listening from one charge, though in our tests we found it could go longer with an Android smartphone.
Bluetooth support includes aptX Lossless, the one of the higher quality wireless codecs, and as usual the wireless connection is excellent.
These are also one of the best headphones for call quality, offering great clarity and detail while keeping background sounds to a minimum.
The sound quality here is the best it’s been for the Px7 range. It’s energetic, clear, expressive and natural in how it sounds, the headphones’ levels of detail, dynamism and sense of spaciousness make it one of the best-sounding models on the market.
Low frequencies have more depth and power, the midrange is detailed and the high frequencies clear. If you’re after a pair of wireless headphones for the sound, there’s none better at this price than the Px7 S3.
