Bowers & Wilkins upgraded our pick for the best sounding wireless headphones

Bowers & Wilkins’ caller PX7 S3 are slimmer than the S2e, and see a smaller carrying case. | Image: Bowers & Wilkins

We called Bowers & Wilkins’ PX7 S2e the “best-sounding wireless headphones” successful our  noise-canceling headphones buyer’s guide, but the company’s latest could beryllium a caller contender for that title.

Bowers & Wilkins says its PX7 S3 headphones person a “re-imagined concern design” that’s much comfy with a caller fastener layout that’s much intuitive. The headphones should besides dependable amended acknowledgment to a redesigned driver, and they diagnostic the “most almighty and effectual progressive sound cancelling exertion the marque has ever developed” utilizing 8 repositioned microphones, Bowers & Wilkins says.

Two details Bowers & Wilkins isn’t yet sharing is however overmuch the caller PX7 S3 volition cost, and erstwhile they’ll beryllium going connected sale. “Due to the uncertainty of the tariff situation, pricing and availability are not disposable astatine this time,” Bowers & Wilkins spokesperson Lucette Nicoll tells The Verge.

To amended however the PX7 S3 sound, the institution is utilizing wholly redesigned 40-millimeter biocellulose thrust units that Bowers & Wilkins says “deliver little coloration and distortion, improved solution and superior dynamics.” The PX7 S3 are besides the company’s archetypal over-ear headphones to diagnostic discrete headphone amplifiers successful each earcup providing “notably much standard and vigor to the sound” they produce.

The headphones besides enactment Qualcomm’s aptXTM Adaptive and aptX Lossless Bluetooth codecs and are compatible with high-resolution streaming services including Qobuz and Tidal. Bluetooth LE Audio with Auracast broadcast capabilities and LC3 codec enactment volition beryllium added arsenic portion of a aboriginal bundle update, on with enactment for spatial audio.

Battery beingness is rated astatine up to 30 hours portion a 15-minute speedy complaint volition supply capable powerfulness for up to 7 hours of playback. There’s inactive nary dedicated 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, but the PX7 S3’s USB-C charging larboard tin besides beryllium utilized for wired listening.

One of the champion features of Bowers & Wilkins’ headphones – astatine slightest for those who hatred dealing with finicky interaction pads – are carnal fastener controls connected each earcup. The PX7 S3 payment from a revised layout with measurement and play/pause buttons that person been redesigned to “improve their tactile interaction.”

If you privation to skip the buttons, the headphones are inactive compatible with Bowers & Wilkins’ Music app that allows features similar ANC and transparency mode to beryllium turned connected and disconnected and the dependable to beryllium customized utilizing a five-band EQ.