The Good The Bowers & Wilkins P7 offers impressive build quality, good comfort, and smooth, rich, well-balanced sound in an over-the-ear headphone design that shuts out a lot of external noise. The earpads are removable and there's an extra cable with a built-in mic and volume control that turns the P7 into an Apple-friendly headset, and a protective carrying case.
The Bad Expensive; leather earpads will cause your ears to get steamy on warmer days; some remote features may not work with Android or Windows devices.
The Bottom Line The Bowers & Wilkins P7 may not the best headphone you can buy in its luxury price range, but it certainly is among the best, with excellent build quality and rich sound that works well with a wide range of music genres and sources.
Performance
The P7's rich sound works well with a wide range of music genres. Not only that, it's a fairly easy headphone to wear for hours at a time. Switching over to the Bowers & Wilkins P5 on-ear headphones the sound thickened, and was less clear overall. The P7 was superior in every way.The upside to the P7 is its much fuller/richer balance compared to the leaner and more airy sound of the Grado. They are two very different sounding headphones, and while we admire the SR325e's clarity, it ruthlessly reveals recordings' deficiencies and harshness the P7 glides over.
