Bowers & Wilkins | McLaren | Px8 Headphone

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

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

Introducing the Px8 McLaren Edition

To rejoice the McLaren and Bowers & Wilkins partnership and the high-performance hybrid McLaren Artura supercar by which the 2 firms’ award-winning collaboration options, Bowers & Wilkins has created a specially-designed model of its Px8 wi-fi headphones, the Px8 McLaren Edition.

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

One of the 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 attainable – with out ever altering or distorting that sound. This pursuit of perfection, instilled by founder John Bowers, remains to be evident as we speak.

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 just 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 sequence manufacturing high-performance hybrid supercar – the McLaren Artura.

Like its McLaren predecessors, the Artura options the most recent speaker applied sciences, developed in Southwater, dwelling to the Bowers & Wilkins analysis and growth staff 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 contains 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 Edition headphones supply wi-fi sound high quality synonymous with Bowers & Wilkins.

The coronary heart of the McLaren Edition Px8 is a stellar efficiency with excellent element, decision and spaciousness due to all-new bespoke 40mm Carbon Cone drive models impressed by know-how utilized in Bowers & Wilkins reference-quality loudspeakers.

The Carbon Cone drive models within the Px8 McLaren Edition are rigorously 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 most effective 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 know-how to make sure the very best sound high quality from suitable 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 utilizing wi-fi or wired connections, the Px8 combines its ultra-high-performance drive unit configuration with highly effective Bowers & Wilkins-developed Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to ship excellent, 24-bit, high-resolution sound high quality from main streaming providers.

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

Six high-performance microphones work collectively to ship the most effective 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 Edition will use the identical just lately upgraded Bowers & Wilkins Music App for set-up and use. The Music App permits Px8 customers to stream their chosen music immediately from their cellular system 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 system, helps fine-tuning of the sound by means of adjustable EQ, and permits homeowners to configure their most well-liked noise-cancelling mode, all whereas monitoring the headphone’s cost degree.

George Biggs, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, McLaren Automotive, mentioned:

We are delighted to unveil the Px8 McLaren Edition, 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 obvious in all merchandise that each manufacturers have collaborated on so far. With the brand new headphones, the immersive audio expertise that each one obtain in our supercars can now transcend the street.

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

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

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