Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2e

The complete portable headphones package, inside and out

Wireless headphones £379 whf.cm/Px7_S2e

We have heard countless times from manufacturers that even when they offer a colourful finish on their products, the most-sold colour is still often black. Well, if Bowers & Wilkins can offer the Px7 S2e in a colour as lovely as the Forest Green pictured here, and the most-sold variant turns out to be Anthracite Black, there’s frankly no hope for disciples of colourful hi-fi’s world takeover.

Dressed in their alluring new colour, the all-new Px7 S2e are the latest reminders of B&W’s debonair design. In fact, they make the current class leaders in the premium wireless noise-cancelling space, the Sony WH-1000XM5, look and feel rather ordinary.

Everything about the Px7 S2e’s look and feel points to a premium pair. Not only is the Forest Green colour a breath of fresh air – autumnal, if we had to pick a season – but the earcups’ textured finish, gold accents and cylindrical badge also combine to make a very visually desirable product. We have also had eyes on the black finish and can assure you they are super smart too, so have no reason to believe the other Ocean Blue and Cloud Grey options aren’t as well.

The thickness of the pleather for the earpads and the headband’s underside suggests the Px7 S2e will look after your head and ears and, indeed, they are comfortable – soft and cushiony, absorbing much of the headphones’ 307g weight so that they don’t feel like a burden during longer listens.

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