Two several years immediately after releasing its initially pair of genuine wireless earbuds, Bowers and Wilkins is below with two up-to-date products. The $399 (£349 / €399) PI7 S2 are the bigger stop of the two, with twin motorists, additional microphones, and the potential to use their charging situation to transmit audio from a wired source (like an in-flight entertainment program) when Bluetooth is not an choice. There’s also the step-down $299 (£249 / €299) PI5 S2.
Both equally earbuds now supply 5 hours of listening on a solitary charge. That’s up from 4 hours for the authentic PI7 earbuds, and 4.5 hrs for the first PI5s, even though it falls shorter of our current leading wi-fi earbud picks, the Sony WF-1000XM4, which supply 8 hours of playback, as perfectly as the 6-hour AirPods Professional 2. The PI7 S2’s case provides a further 16 hrs, when the PI5 S2’s provides 19.
B&W is also boasting about “upgraded wireless connectivity” on both equally pairs of earbuds, which will increase their Bluetooth vary to 25 meters (all-around 82 ft). But the actual wi-fi codecs shown as supported are the same as very last time — aptX Adaptive for the PI7 S2, and the decreased-conclude aptX for the PI5 S2 — and there is no sign of help for the newer aptX Lossless.
Other variances among the PI7 S2 and PI5 S2 include things like an added crafted-in microphone on the previous, which has 3 mics for each earbud as a substitute of two. The PI7 S2 also has a twin-driver configuration, which normally delivers a a lot more thorough sound, versus just a solitary driver with the PI5 S2. Ultimately, the larger-conclude model arrives with adaptive noise cancellation, which adjusts to your environment, compared to energetic sound cancellation on the PI5 S2 (which can be manually configured through the companion app).
Both earbuds are readily available from currently. The PI7 S2 arrives in black, white, or blue, even though the PI5 S2 arrives in two shades of grey, lilac, and — afterwards this spring — environmentally friendly.
