![]() The Bowers & Wilkins P5 Wireless sound great, look decent and are comfortable for short listening sessions. The Bowers & Wilkins P5 Wireless cost £330 – £80 more than wired P5 Series 2 costing £250, and £80 more than wireless rivals such as the excellent Philips Fidelio M1BT. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Price The ear cups are held in place by magnets. ![]() That means you have to manually dig into Bluetooth settings on the phone and reconnect – an unnecessary few steps which are simple but get frustrating fast. Once paired they work fine for the most part, but they will not automatically reconnect as almost all other Bluetooth audio device do when turned on. There is no near-field communications (NFC) built into the headphones, so they have to be manually paired via Bluetooth to a smartphone. So far everything is the same as the wired variant of the P5, but its when Bluetooth and playback controls come in that Bowers & Wilkins starts to falter. Ambient noise is dulled, but voices and sharper sounds are clearly audible through the headphone ear cups meaning I was consistently forced to turn up the volume to drown out my daily commute. Their sound isolation is not quite so impressive. They are some of the best sounding on-ear headphones I have ever listened to. They have a decent, rounded sound with punchy but not overpowering bass and good detail and separation between instruments. ![]() The left ear cup has a microUSB port for charging and a power slider, which puts the headphones into pairing mode if held down for a couple of seconds.
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