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Review on Bowers & Wilkins PI5 wireless headphones, white by Dagmara Michowska ᠌

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It can't be worse! A waste of money.

Yesterday I became a happy owner of PI5. I listened to Dr Head - the only TWS with a normal sound turned out to be, everything else is not even close (PI7 was not available, mb they are even a little better). I used to go for 2 years with a rim around my neck (RHA MA750), yes - there in that category the sound of most models is many times better, there thousands for 10-11 will sound like these for 19, but this rim infuriates sho kapets. Plus, there are problems with both wired headphones such as chafing of wires, unkemptness, and so on. So I had to compromise by buying these. The main compromises, moreover, are connected precisely with some obviously software flaws, which obviously can be fixed and it is not clear why this has not yet been done. I even have hope for a new normal firmware. IMHO the pros far outweigh the cons, so 5 stars. : I passed it for examination under a guarantee, I hope they will return the money, there are too many compromises - literally every time a bug began to appear on the street with random switching on and off of music, an assistant, etc. Yes, and pass-through during calls with metal became too pissed off. Don't take them

Pros
  • Very good sound for TWS, at the level of good headphones. Unless you're some kind of wild audiophile, there's more than enough sound in these headphones. They withstand any hard electronics (many models on it wheezed, including headphones), calm music is also wonderful in them. The connection to devices was thought out, on the android a window appeared like on iPhones when connecting airpods. Pointless, but nice. They sit well in the ears, there is no feeling that they will fall out. It seems like a normal microphone, before that, on headphones with a rim, everyone complained that they couldn’t hear me, there are no such problems here.
Cons
  • Very strange and bad noise cancellation. The noise does not completely suppress, moreover, if there is silence around, then some kind of white noise is heard. But I wouldn’t say that you can’t hear the difference, it still crushes large street noise. But there is a big problem with it - if you listen loudly (the last 2 divisions) of audio with noise reduction turned on, the audio starts to fart, sound like bass boosted, and so on. I noticed this back in the store, I decided to score it, since in principle it makes no sense to constantly use noise reduction (the headphones sit well and external noise is not particularly audible when loud music is on, and when listening to calm music, there are obviously no problems with bass-busted), but the fact itself unpleasant. Pass-through does not work well and does not turn on from the headphones (only manually through the application). Bad - it means metal is added to all external sound, as if you hear everything around, synthesized by Griffin Lim. And okay, again, it would be possible to score, as well as with noise reduction and not use it, but this function is turned on automatically during any calls (he managed not only to recognize it in the messenger, he turned it on when I was in the browser from a macbook via google meet phoned) and did not turn it off at all. The head after 15 minutes of this function begins to ache. Headphones are not friendly with Apple technology. Here they wrote above about the fact that on the iPhone the interlocutors hear themselves, the same thing happened on the MacBook. The truth began to bug not immediately, but some time after the start of the call. I called up on android in different applications and places, I never caught this, obviously a software problem. The in-ear seat sensor does not work at all. It's impossible to listen to him at all, when walking, he stupidly turns the music on and off in a second. Today I caught an uprising of headphones against me - they started switching music, turning on an assistant, not responding to pressing, etc., until I put it in and pulled it out of the case, nothing was fixed. It was strange, but I caught it only once, I hope this will not appear often.

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