Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Bowers & Wilkins PI7
✓
Beats Studio Buds ✓
Active noise cancellation utilises more advanced kind of tech to reduce unwanted ambient sounds. How it works, it detects and analyzes the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and after generates a mirror signal to counter it. Simply put, it's like taking +1 (sound from your surrounding) and producing -1 (inverted noise) to make 0 which results in a reduced level of noise.
Beats Studio Buds have Active Noise Cancellation allowing you to listen at lower levels of volume, causing less ear fatigue since you don't have to crank up the earbuds volume to overcome background sounds.
The Bowers & Wilkins PI7 too have Active Noise Cancellation which makes either of the earbuds ideal for plane rides and rush hour travels. The Beats Studio Buds and Bowers & Wilkins PI7 operate with different noise cancellation settings, pick the setting that you prefer for travel or that suites your chill time.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Bowers & Wilkins PI7
✓
Beats Studio Buds ✓
The Beats Studio Buds sit well in place, this creates an acoustic seal that tones down your environment sounds and also prevents the earbuds music from leaking out at the same.
Both Bowers & Wilkins PI7, and Beats Studio Buds have passive noise reduction this means that both limit ambient noise without using ANC to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Bowers & Wilkins PI7
9.2mm
Beats Studio Buds 8.2mm
The Beats Studio Buds driver unit is 8.2mm in diameter, bigger drivers are more powerful, therefor producing better bass.
A driver unit is the component that produces sound in the device, its size determines the sound made by the device.
Bowers & Wilkins PI7 driver unit is 9.2mm in diameter,
making them have a larger driver unit than that of Beats Studio Buds by 1mm
, as many tend to believe that driver units of a bigger size automatically produce better sound quality.
However, large drivers find it difficult to produce high frequencies so it's true that, larger drivers are capable of generating louder sound, but this does not imply that they deliver better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Bowers & Wilkins PI7
10hz
Beats Studio Buds 20hz
Beats Studio Buds's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response inidcates how well an audio device generates low audible frequencies and if it makes any changes to the signal while at it.
Bowers & Wilkins PI7's lowest frequency is at 10Hz, this implies that
Bowers & Wilkins PI7 produce a juicier bass than the Beats Studio Buds
Highest Frequency
Bowers & Wilkins PI7
20,000hz
Beats Studio Buds 20,000hz
Beats Studio Buds's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response tells how well an audio device generates high human frequencies and if it changes to the signal while at it.
Bowers & Wilkins PI7's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, this implies that
both devices produce equal treble
Sound Pressure Level
Bowers & Wilkins PI7
✗
Beats Studio Buds 100.5db/mw
SPL, is the level of pressure of sound, in decibels, dB, Beats Studio Buds's measurement is 100.5dB/mW. Devices with a higher sound pressure level are generally louder when supplied with any given audio source.
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