Absolutely. In fact this is exactly what B&O has been doing for some time with seasonal/special edition/collabs with their products. Especially the H95. They view them more as a fashion accessory than a piece of high end audio gear. Even Beats used to do this with the Studio line. I’d say it...

Objectively no difference with an in-spec cable. With the newer UAC3 standard there will be zero difference because of the enhanced error correction. https://forum.headphones.com/t/mis-understanding-usb-audio/6719 https://www.soundguys.com/usb-audio-explained-18563/

True, but that’s just not the Apple way. User choice isn’t a thing when they know best :smirk:

Exactly. And a large part of the rationale behind no EQ is Apple’s ‘it just works’ ethos. Users shouldn’t have to mess around with EQ settings themselves when you can attain the (admittedly subjective) best sound possible by default through their computational audio. It’s no different to the...

Not so much the bitrate but the complexity of the codec. It’s not very efficient and is computationally expensive to encode/decode.

It’s not going to be Sony’s top end ANC solution as found in the XM5, it’s their lower range ANC chipset they resell. They keep the high end stuff for themselves. There’s a fair few manufacturers using Sony’s ANC (I believe the ML5909 and MW75 do too) over the usual Qualcomm SoC

As far as I was aware they don’t license their ToTL chipset but only their mid range ANC and BT implementation as used on their lower end ANC headphones. It’s probably cheaper to license than the Qualcomm equivalent which almost everyone else uses. Other than Apple and possibly Bose, nobody...

Yeah, for sure there is a difference in terms of longevity and potentially better throughput (frankly USB-C is a complete mess of different standards and cable specifications), but in terms of audible differences, absolutely not. What irks is that most of these 'hifi' cable companies are using...

So, you do realise that USB-C signal transmission is a digital only signal, so objectively any cable is as good as the next? 🤦‍♂️ I'm amazed folk still buy into this snake oil. I have a friend who is in the cable industry - albeit not specifically audio - and he's continually amused by the...

Received an email from Master & Dynamic today with a 30% off everything 'early access' discount code to their Friends & Family sale which goes public tomorrow. Makes trying the MW75 again very appealing at £384 EDIT: Code doesn't appear to apply to Bugatti edition. Shame because the...

Yes, at least B&W are keeping it classy. It interesting though how for years Bang & Olufsen were often mocked for their collabs and seasonal colour ways, and now it seems to be the done thing I even got an email today from M&W about their new Bugatti collab too!

Actually prefer the McLaren colours to the 007 version - a little less conservative

I’m in exactly the same position. Although I’d actually sold the PX8, regretted it virtually straight away and have now re-bought. The Bathys are going. Coming back to the PX8 was a bit like coming home after a long day. Just felt so good.

Dammit. I’ve just had to repurchase the PX8 and specifically the McLaren edition. I’m had the 007 last time out. 🤦🏻‍♂️ I’m so easily led 😂

Actually my experience with most other ‘device’ update apps is that they all need to remain open and in the foreground. B&O, Focal are all identical in this regard. On iOS at least it’ll be because of the automatic and fairly aggressive memory management. These apps mostly won’t have...

Excellent. Although not sure how the current version passed QC before release. Seems like a glaring omission 🤷🏻‍♂️

Don’t buy that for one minute. Sidetone is a function of the headphones and not the mobile device operating system. Sidetone, Own Voice or whatever you call the voice focused transparency mode when on calls works perfectly well with a multitude of other headphones on iOS. Suspect what they’re...

Nothing wrong with AAC as a codec. It’s technically superior to most of the others. In fact there isn’t even anything wrong with SBC as a codec either. The fundamental issue is the limited bandwidth support at the transport layer, combined with power consumption constraints (hence why we’ve...

I absolutely detest the term "vegan leather". It's just ridiculous and a complete misrepresentation. It's either animal skin based leather or it's a plastic/vinyl it is really that simple. If you want to make pleather a selling point then simply do what someone like Apple probably would and...

Presumable you've updated both the app and headphones themselves? I'm on iOS and it all works fine, apart from the missing Sidetone setting

Ok. Definitely missing from the iOS app then!

How do you even access the sidetone feature? On iOS it’s nowhere to be found as far as I can tell.

No, can’t see anything sidetone related either

But.... The PX8 has a *very* different signature from the H95. I'd say the Bathys would be a closer match whilst sounding different the the H95. I've had all three of these over periods of time. Currently don't have the H95 anymore, but it's the one I really miss - nothing has ever come close to...

That may have been back in the days when they were proudly independent. Since becoming part of Sound United things may well be very different.