A breakdown of the review per specifications

Weight

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 320g

KEF Mu7 309g

KEF Mu7 have a weight of 309g, these weigh below 320g, which we consider as the highest average a headphone should weigh for comfort during long use. We prefer a lower weight better because lighter devices are more comfortable to carry.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8, at 320g are heavier than the KEF Mu7 with a difference 11g

Has A Detachable Cable

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

Detachable cables are cables that have connectors on both ends. One end goes into your headphone cups, while the other end is inserted into an audio source. Some new headphones, and not just the expensive ones, are coming with detachable cables, KEF Mu7 are one of those.

With a detachable cable, Bowers & Wilkins Px8 too can use alternative cables and if the cable is pulled, it will pop out instead of breaking.

Has A Tangle Free Cable

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

Twisted headphone cables can be a great source of annoyance and inconvenience, KEF Mu7's cable is designed to minimize tangling. Constant twisting of the cables can also lead to bends in the copper wires, affecting sound quality, or completely damaging your headphones.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 too have a cable designed to help prevent tangles.

Cable Length

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 1.2meters

KEF Mu7 ✗

A long cable ensures more freedom of movement, but remember that every cable based on the conducting material used has a certain amount of parasitic resistance, inductance, and capacitance. How much depends on the length and construction. Bowers & Wilkins Px8 comes with a 1.2meters cable.

Has An Over-The-Ear Foam

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

Over-ear headphones have larger earpads that fit around your entire ear KEF Mu7 have a comfortable full-size form with earcups that fully enclose your ears. This design is loved for its increased sound isolation and the fact that it won't leak sound to your neighbors.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 with this design offer potential for maximum bass and loudness levels.

Has Stereo Speakers

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 have stereo speakers, what this means is that KEF Mu7's speakers deliver sound from separate channels on both left and right sides, this creates a richer sound and a better listening experience.

Both Bowers & Wilkins Px8 and KEF Mu7 have stereo speakers

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Has Active Noise Cancellation (Anc)

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

Active noise cancellation uses more advanced technology to actively counter noise. How it works, it detects and analyzes the sound pattern of incoming noise and then generates a mirror signal to cancel it out. In simple terms, it's like taking +1 outside (noise from your surrounding) and adding -1 inside (counter sound within the device) to make 0 resulting in a reduced level of noise.

KEF Mu7 allow you to listen at lower volume levels, causing less ear fatigue as you don't have to crank up the volume to overcome background noise.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 too have active noise cancellation making both devices ideal for plane rides and morning commutes. Each may work with different noise cancellation modes, pick the setting, mode, or noise cancellation type that you prefer for commute or that enhances your relaxation time.

Has Passive Noise Reduction

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

Passive Noise Cancellation uses well-designed ear cups to seal out unwanted noise. This is used for both in-ear earphones and over-ear headphones where the headphone itself will keep surrounding noise out. The KEF Mu7 sits tightly in place, creating an acoustic seal that reduces background noise and prevents your music from leaking out.

Both of these devices have passive noise reduction which means that also the Bowers & Wilkins Px8 isolates you from ambient noise instead of actively using technology to cancel it out.

Driver Unit Size

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 40mm

KEF Mu7 40mm

The driver unit is the component that produces sound in the device, its size dictates the loudness of the headphone. KEF Mu7 driver unit is 40mm in diameter, bigger drivers are more powerful and can produce better bass.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 driver unit is 40mm in diameter, making both devices similar in how loud their sound gets , many people have a misconception that driver units of a bigger size automatically produce better sound quality.

However, large drivers usually have difficulty reproducing high frequencies so yeah, larger drivers can generate louder sound, but this does not mean that they deliver better sound.

Has A Neodymium Magnet

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✗

KEF Mu7 ✓

Neodymium magnets when used in audio devices produce a higher sensitivity and substantial sound output using less power to do so. They can help produce music at quite a high sound pressure level, SPL, with the use of high magnetic flux. The KEF Mu7 have this type of magnet.

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Battery Life

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 30hours

KEF Mu7 40hours

If your headphones play wirelessly, cancel ambient noise, or enhance your listening experience with active features, their battery life will reduce over time. The device's battery life is given by the manufacturer, with longer battery life, you get to use it for longer and have to charge the device less often. KEF Mu7's battery life is 40 hours

Bowers & Wilkins Px8's battery life is 30 hours. Each time you recharge your headphones, they get a little less listening time. The effect is barely noticeable at first. But over a few years, you may find that your device, no longer plays for long like it used to.

Charge Time

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✗

KEF Mu7 2hours

It takes 2 hours to fully charge the KEF Mu7's battery. It is recommended to fully charge the battery before using the headphones for the first time or when they have been unused for extended periods.

Has A Battery Level Indicator

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 have a battery level indicator, an indicator shows you when the device has a low battery. The battery indicator lights show the charging status of your headphones.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 too have a battery level indicator, charging indicators allow you to determine the charging state of your headphones, whether fully charged, or the battery is running low.

Has A Rechargeable Battery

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

A rechargeable battery is a type of electrical battery that can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times, as opposed to a disposable or primary battery, which is supplied fully charged and discarded after use. KEF Mu7's battery can be recharged and used over again.

The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 too have a rechargeable battery.

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Can Be Used Wirelessly

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 can be used wirelessly, wireless devices allow users more freedom of movement.

The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 also can be used wirelessly

Bluetooth Version

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 v5.2

KEF Mu7 v5.1

Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard that allows data transfers between devices placed in close proximity, using short-wavelength, ultra-high frequency radio waves. KEF Mu7 has a v5.1

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 has a Bluetooth version of v5.2. Newer versions provide faster data transfers.

Has Usb Type-C

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 support USB TYPE-C, an industry-standard connector for transmitting both data and power on a single cable. The USB-C plug is now part and parcel of most current laptops, phones, and tablets, it features reversible plug orientation and cable direction.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 too have USB TYPE-C

Has Aptx Adaptive

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✗

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 support APTX Adaptive, an audio codec for Bluetooth devices that are developed by Qualcomm. It has a variable bit rate (between 279kbps and 420kbps), which means it can adjust the bit rate for different scenarios, such as listening to HD audio or reducing interference from other devices.

Has Aptx Hd

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

The KEF Mu7 support APTX HD, an audio codec for Bluetooth devices that are developed by Qualcomm. It supports high-quality 24-bit audio (at a bit rate of 576kbps).

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 support APTX HD too.

Has Bluetooth Aptx

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 support APTX, a codec used for transmitting audio wirelessly with Bluetooth. It is developed by Qualcomm and supports 16-bit audio at a bit rate of 384kbps.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 support APTX

Has Aac

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 support AAC, a codec that is used for Bluetooth audio. It supports 24-bit audio at 250kbps. Because it uses psychoacoustic modeling, it can provide better results than other codecs at a similar bit rate.

The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 support AAC as well. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves higher sound quality than MP3 encoders at the same bit rate.

Maximum Bluetooth Range

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✗

KEF Mu7 10meters

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances. The KEF Mu7 can connect at a 10meters distance via Bluetooth or infrared to another device.

Has A 3.5Mm Male Connector

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

Being an industry standard audio plug, a standard 3.5mm male connector is suitable for use with all MP3 players and computer sound cards. This means that it is commonly used in stereo headphones to your phone or connecting your phone to an external amplifier, sound bars, your car radio, etc. KEF Mu7 has this connector giving it a wider range of connectivity with most of the sound devices out there. All plugs have at least a tip and sleeve with the number of rings that stand as a differentiating factor.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 too have this kind of connector

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Number Of Microphones

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 2only

KEF Mu7 ✗

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 have only 2 microphones, more microphones result in better sound quality and enable the device to filter out background noise.

Has A Noise-Canceling Microphone

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 use a noise-canceling type of microphone, these microphones are designed to filter out background noise from the desired sound. Especially useful in noisy environments.

The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 too use a noise-canceling type of microphone.

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Has Ambient Sound Mode

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 support ambient sound mode, which uses microphones to pass through ambient noises so that they can still be heard. It’s useful when you want to listen to music but also be aware of what’s happening around you, for example when you’re having a jog but would still want to be able to hear traffic.

The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 support ambient sound mode as well allowing you to hear the ambient sound even while wearing them.

Has In/On-Ear Detection

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✗

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 support in/on-ear detection, the sensors in the device can detect when they are removed from your ears so that the music is paused, saving battery life and improving your listening experience while at it.

Has A Mute Function

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✗

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 have a mute function, they have an option to mute/unmute a conversation directly from the device. The mute function means that you unilaterally turn off the microphone, but you can still hear the other party's voice.

Control Panel Placed On A Device

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✗

There is a control panel on the Bowers & Wilkins Px8 body, so you can easily access the volume control or remote without having to interact with a cable or another device it's connected to.

Can Be Used As A Headset

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✓

KEF Mu7 can be used as a headset. A headset is one headphone or pair with a built-in microphone. Headsets can be used for apps that require communication i.e. Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, games with voice chat, mobile phones, etc.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 can be used as a headset. since they have a built-in microphone

Travel Bag Is Included

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 ✓

KEF Mu7 ✗

Carrying headphones without a case, or putting them in bags without a casing can easily put them at risk of getting damaged. The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 come with their own special case or pouch, which is useful for safe transportation.

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Category	Features	KEF Mu7	Bowers & Wilkins Px8
DESIGN	weight	309g	320g
	has a detachable cable	✓	✓
	has a tangle free cable	✓	✓
	cable length	✗	1.2meters
	has an over-the-ear foam	✓	✓
	has stereo speakers	✓	✓
SOUND QUALITY	has active noise cancellation (anc)	✓	✓
	has passive noise reduction	✓	✓
	driver unit size	40mm	40mm
	has a neodymium magnet	✓	✗
POWER	battery life	40hours	30hours
	charge time	2hours	✗
	has a battery level indicator	✓	✓
	has a rechargeable battery	✓	✓
CONNECTIVITY	can be used wirelessly	✓	✓
	bluetooth version	v5.1	v5.2
	has usb type-c	✓	✓
	has aptx adaptive	✗	✓
	has aptx hd	✓	✓
	has bluetooth aptx	✓	✓
	has aac	✓	✓
	maximum bluetooth range	10meters	✗
	has a 3.5mm male connector	✓	✓
MICROPHONE	number of microphones	✗	2only
MICROPHONE	has a noise-canceling microphone	✓	✓
EXTRAS	has ambient sound mode	✓	✓
	has in/on-ear detection	✗	✓
	has a mute function	✓	✗
	control panel placed on a device	✗	✓
	can be used as a headset	✓	✓
	travel bag is included	✗	✓
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A summary of the review by comparison

A breakdown of the review per specifications

Design

Weight

Has A Detachable Cable

Has A Tangle Free Cable

Cable Length

Has An Over-The-Ear Foam

Has Stereo Speakers

Sound Quality

Has Active Noise Cancellation (Anc)

Has Passive Noise Reduction

Driver Unit Size

Has A Neodymium Magnet

Power

Battery Life

Charge Time

Has A Battery Level Indicator

Has A Rechargeable Battery

Connectivity

Can Be Used Wirelessly

Bluetooth Version

Has Usb Type-C

Has Aptx Adaptive

Has Aptx Hd

Has Bluetooth Aptx

Has Aac

Maximum Bluetooth Range

Has A 3.5Mm Male Connector

Microphone

Number Of Microphones

Has A Noise-Canceling Microphone

Extras

Has Ambient Sound Mode

Has In/On-Ear Detection

Has A Mute Function

Control Panel Placed On A Device

Can Be Used As A Headset

Travel Bag Is Included

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