Bowers & Wilkins | McLaren | Px8 Headphone

Bowers & Wilkins, the famend British premium audio model, has launched a McLaren Version of its latest flagship wi-fi headphone, the Px8, with luxurious British supercar maker McLaren Automotive.

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The Px8 McLaren Version is constructed on the reference-standard sound high quality of the brand new Px8, whereas the premium design honours the partnership with the posh supercar maker, which has generated ground-breaking improvements for in-car audio.

Introducing the Px8 McLaren Version

To have a good time the McLaren and Bowers & Wilkins partnership and the high-performance hybrid McLaren Artura supercar through which the 2 corporations’ award-winning collaboration options, Bowers & Wilkins has created a specially-designed model of its Px8 wi-fi headphones, the Px8 McLaren Version.

Since 2015, Bowers & Wilkins has been chargeable for creating the high-performance audio techniques present in McLaren’s supercars and hypercars.

One of many world’s most revered audio manufacturers, Bowers & Wilkins is famed for pushing the boundaries of loudspeaker functionality to disclose as a lot of the unique recording as doable – with out ever altering or distorting that sound. This pursuit of perfection, instilled by founder John Bowers, continues to be evident right now.

The partnership is constructed on agency technical foundations, which have already been recognised for 3 iF design awards for the system integrations of Bowers & Wilkins within the McLaren Speedtail, McLaren GT, and most lately, the McLaren Artura.

Bowers & Wilkins has labored intently with McLaren’s design and engineering groups to create and optimise the audio system discovered within the firm’s first collection manufacturing high-performance hybrid supercar – the McLaren Artura.

Like its McLaren predecessors, the Artura options the newest speaker applied sciences, developed in Southwater, residence to the Bowers & Wilkins analysis and growth workforce since 2019 and solely 30 miles away from the McLaren international HQ in Surrey, the place its supercars and hypercars are hand-built.

The Px8 McLaren Edition includes a Galvanic gray end and Papaya orange highlights, the latter impressed by the well-known Papaya orange, which originated in founder Bruce McLaren’s early racing automobiles.

Sharing McLaren’s obsession with technical and performance-led aesthetics, the Px8 McLaren Version headphones supply wi-fi sound high quality synonymous with Bowers & Wilkins.

The center of the McLaren Version Px8 is a stellar efficiency with excellent element, decision and spaciousness due to all-new bespoke 40mm Carbon Cone drive items impressed by expertise utilized in Bowers & Wilkins reference-quality loudspeakers.

The Carbon Cone drive items within the Px8 McLaren Version are fastidiously angled inside every earcup to make sure a constant distance relative to the listener’s ears from each level throughout the floor of every driver to supply a extra immersive and extremely correct soundstage. The result’s the perfect sound high quality Bowers & Wilkins has ever delivered from a pair of wi-fi headphones.

Unparalleled high-resolution sound and noise cancellation

The Px8 makes use of Qualcomm’s aptXTM Adaptive wi-fi expertise to make sure the very best sound high quality from appropriate telephones, tablets and computer systems. USB-C and three.5mm analogue cable connections are additionally supported with each cable sorts included within the particularly matching carry case that accompanies the product.

Whether or not utilizing wi-fi or wired connections, the Px8 combines its ultra-high-performance drive unit configuration with highly effective Bowers & Wilkins-developed Digital Sign Processing (DSP) to ship excellent, 24-bit, high-resolution sound high quality from main streaming companies.

The Px8 makes use of proprietary Bowers & Wilkins-optimised noise cancellation expertise to successfully shut out undesirable noise – crucially, with out harming musicality within the course of.

Six high-performance microphones work collectively to ship the perfect outcomes: two measure the output of every drive unit, two react to ambient noise from the surface world, and two present excellent voice readability with enhanced noise suppression.

A breakthrough in person expertise

The Px8 McLaren Version will use the identical lately upgraded Bowers & Wilkins Music App for set-up and use. The Music App permits Px8 customers to stream their chosen music instantly from their cellular gadget to their headphones, with Deezer, Qobuz and TIDAL all supported.

As earlier than, the Music App additionally simplifies the connection of the Px8 to a cellular gadget, helps fine-tuning of the sound by means of adjustable EQ, and permits house owners to configure their most popular noise-cancelling mode, all whereas monitoring the headphone’s cost degree.

George Biggs, Chief Gross sales and Advertising and marketing Officer, McLaren Automotive, mentioned:

We’re delighted to unveil the Px8 McLaren Version, which builds on the award-winning and long-standing collaboration between McLaren and Bowers & Wilkins. The shared ethos of pushing the boundaries, innovation and the pursuit of perfection is clear in all merchandise that each manufacturers have collaborated on thus far. With the brand new headphones, the immersive audio expertise that every one obtain in our supercars can now transcend the street.

Dan Shepherd, Vice President of Licensing and Partnerships Bowers & Wilkins, added:

We’re tremendously pleased with our long-standing relationship with McLaren Automotive, which is rooted in a shared need to guide in efficiency. The Px8 McLaren Version celebrates this partnership, extending the attraction of our industry-leading sound efficiency and McLaren’s DNA to the surface of the automobile.

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