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The Bowers & Wilkins Pi6s are a very good sounding pair of in-ear headphones that can easily keep up with the Pi8s, which cost €150 more.

The Beoplay H100 from Bang & Olufsen is a high-quality pair of Bluetooth headphones that offer excellent sound, easy operation, powerful noise cancellation, first-class workmanship and an appealing design.

With the Pi8, Bowers & Wilkins offer some of the best you can expect from true wireless headphones at the moment, even if Auracast and Dolby Atmos are missing.

Sonos sets new standards with the Ace: sound, function and comfort immediately put the multiroom expert at the top of the premium headphone segment.

In our test, the Beats Solo 4 proved to be very good-sounding on-ears that operate at a high technical level, which impressed us with their long battery life.

Great sound with a slimmed-down feature set. If you were interested in the Denon PerL Pro because of the personalised sound profiles, you can confidently buy the Denon Perl without Pro for under 200 euros. At the moment, in this price range, the sound doesn't...

The Sonos Era 100 are very good-sounding speakers that are particularly enjoyable when used as a stereo pair.

The Bluetooth speaker Soundcore Motion X600 by Anker impresses with good, powerful sound and also offers spatial audio.

How small can speakers be and still sound reasonably good?

Very good sound, but only limited portability: Sonos aim to set standards with the Move 2, especially with the sound.

With the Px7 S2e, Bowers & Wilkins has made very good headphones ever so slightly better.

The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones excel with their noise-cancelling and equally impressive transparency mode.

Bose maintains its QuietComfort series with selective improvements without compromising the rock-solid housing design.

With the PerL Pro, Denon offers unique True Wireless in-ears, which are very impressive thanks to the personalised calibration to one's own hearing ability.

With the Beats Studio Pro, Apple make a spirited move into the headphone market that not only attacks their ageing Apple AirPods Max but also aims to win over the Android community.

There is a compelling reason to choose headphones from Bowers & Wilkins: the sound. This applies to the Bowers & Wilkins Pi5 S2.

Compared to version 1, the new Bowers & Wilkins Pi7 S2 dispense with some ground-breaking new features. Is it worth your while to upgrade?

With the Px8, Bowers & Wilkins is demonstrating a premium model that, with a retail price of €699, is uncompromising on quality.

The Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2 primarily impressed us with their very good sound. But this newcomer also performs well in terms of noise cancelling, appearance and wearing comfort. Android users will have a clear advantage over iOS users with the Px7 S2.

With their QuietComfort 45, Bose are committed to a consistent product: these new over-ears come with active noise cancelling (ANC, noise suppression), long battery life and great sound. Compared to the competition, however, they lack some important features. Will it be enough?