Comfort
The fit and feel are beyond reproach, as the PX7s are comfortably adjustable for any head shape and size. There are swivels at each end of the bracket that allow it to lay flat and clean. What I had missed in the Aonic 50s is now found in the PX7s, as they automatically switch to a standby mode when removed. This solution is solved by sensors located in the ear cups, which quite reliably detect when the headphones are removed from the head. Then they first switch to a pause mode and after a short time to standby mode.
However, this does not only have positive features, because if you wear a thicker winter hat, for example, and the ear cups do not lie completely on, it can also happen that the sensors do not recognize the head and remain in standby mode. This should be reworked by increasing the sensitivity of the sensors.
The pads on the left and right are filled with memory foam and covered with soft leather. This special foam increases the wearing comfort many times over and does not cause any unpleasant pressure. The ear cups are nice and big so that even bigger ears find room in them without pressing too hard. The correct side is imprinted in large letters in the ear cups, so there should be no confusion.
What is incomprehensible for me, however, considering the high price, is the fact that the pads can not be removed, as with the Shure Aonic 50. For a simple cleaning this is nothing and should the pads ever be worn out, then one is forced to return the complete headphones to the manufacturer. To me, that’s a valid criticism and really out of touch with the times.
Functionality and connections
On the right bottom side of the PX7 we find the various buttons and connectors. There is also the switch for the on/off button, the button for Bluetooth, the volume/call button and the USB Type C port as well as the mini jack. On the left bottom side we find the button for noise cancelling.
Let’s move on to a feature of the PX7 that can be controlled on the bottom left side. The intelligent noise cancelling this not only has the function of actively and very efficiently suppressing ambient noise, but we can also amplify the ambient noise here and emulate an open system. Good uin the office. This option was already available on the previously tested Shure Aonic 50 and it was quite impressive.
The PX7 has 4 settings:
- High: This suppresses all ambient noise.
- Low: This suppresses the ambient noise minimally and get our environment.
- Auto: This automatically adapts to the environment e.g. at work we can still understand our fellow human beings and communicate without taking off the headphones or we are in a noisy environment and the noise cancelling suppresses to a maximum.
Of course, the whole thing can also be turned off completely with function No. 4, and even there we have good acoustic shielding without ANC support.
Now let’s move on to another feature I mentioned in the Comfort text, the proximity sensors in the ear cups. The PX7 have special built-in proximity sensors or motion sensors. These are said to further increase the battery life, which is at 30 hours, and automatically switch the headphones to standby mode when they are off. This works quite well, even if you put it on again, the playback switches on reliably again and again.
But there is a shortcoming here, which Bowers & Wilkins also describes in the user manual and which I had already mentioned: glasses, earrings, hair, caps can negatively affect the sensors in the seeker function, so that sometimes without reason the headphones switch to standby mode, although you had not intended it. This is of course annoying, especially in winter months when you like to wear a thicker hat. However, the sensor technology can be adjusted and set again in the B&W app. Here I would have wished that you can turn off this function at least times on the outside of the headphones and not need an app for it again.
Software
At the moment there is only for IOS and Android an APP, as already with Shure, I see that with a tearful eye, since such headphones are also used with pleasure in front of the PC. Here the manufacturers should urgently rework, really a pity. But now we come to the software, because it is again quite simple and self-explanatory. Once we have paired our PX7, it also shows us the battery level directly. On the next pages we can set various options such as the noise reduction, how much it intervenes or turn it off completely.
In the main settings we find other tabs where we can customize our PX7, including for me one of the most important options is the carry sensor, there we can adjust it, should it ever bother as just mentioned.
Unfortunately, the software does not offer us an equalizer to further adjust the sound. This would round out the software and make it more user-friendly and customizable to personal habits.
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