Best Hi-Fi Wireless Headphones Award 2025-2026 – EISA
Highly Recommended Award – avsforums.com
Best of 2025 Editors' Choice Award – ecoustics.com
Top Pick Award - soundandvision.com
Five Stars - What Hi-Fi? Magazine
Best Headphones Award 2025 – Tom's Guide
Best Value Award - audiograde.com
A New Standard of Performance and a Wealth of Innovative Features
Get rid of the wires while hanging onto incredible sound. With its elevated design, innovative features, and superb all-around performance, the Px7 S3 takes everything you love about Bowers & Wilkins’ award-winning over-ear headphones and refines it to a new standard of excellence and elegance.
The Px7 S3 combines a 24-bit DSP, enhanced with technique from flagship Px8 headphones, with custom-designed 1.6" (40mm) drive units. The drive units are carefully angled inside each earcup for a truly focused performance.
Developed from nearly 60 years of engineering expertise, these headphones deliver incredible sound quality and a truly focused, immersive listening experience.
Your Px7 S3 can play music streamed wirelessly from your mobile phone, tablet, or computer via Bluetooth, or conventionally connected by a jack cable to a suitable analog headphone output. The Px7 S3 can also play audio via a USB connection from a computer and can be used for wireless phone calls, too.
Award-Winning Performance
The Px7 S3 won an award for Best Hi-Fi Wireless Headphones 2025-2026 from EISA, the Expert Imaging and Sound Association.
"These elegantly styled cans are exceedingly good at immersing you in your music, even when on-the-go in very noisy environments, courtesy of a brilliantly efficient noise cancelling system utilising eight microphones."
"With aptX Lossless providing CD-quality playback over Bluetooth, and discrete DSP and DAC/amplification circuits optimising performance, the Px7 S3 never sounds anything less than thrilling. Add in the smart design, trio of colour options, USB-C connection option and app-based customisable EQ, and B&W’s headphone becomes the one to beat."
"Headphones That Inspire Extended Listening Sessions"
"The Px7 S3 represents a meaningful evolution, combining excellent audio quality, solid noise cancelling, and luxury build as one of the best all-around wireless headphones in the premium segment," reports Mark Henninger, soundandvision.com, July 4, 2025, honoring the S3 with a Top Pick Award. "Audiophiles will particularly appreciate the clarity, balance, and musical engagement exceeding most rivals at this price."
"For those seeking a sophisticated alternative to mainstream options, the Px7 S3 is highly recommended. It meaningfully updates the Px7 series while competing effectively against the latest offerings from industry heavyweights. With a deft combination of comfort and high fidelity, B&W has crafted headphones that inspire extended listening sessions, wherever you are."
"Very Much the Real Deal"
The Px7 S3 earned a top rating of Five Stars from What Hi-Fi? magazine. "B&W’s follow-up to the five-star Px7 S2e has been a success. Matching their predecessors’ overall appeal was never going to be easy, but the Px7 S3’s powerfully entertaining sonic performance and refined design make them a good contender in a crowded marketplace…"
"Sonically, the Px7 S3 outmatch their predecessors in almost every department – as a blend of style and substance, they’re very much the real deal."
"Highly Recommended"
"While Bowers’ Px7 S2e were the cans to beat at under four hundred quid, the Px7 S3 version significantly betters them in every way. Being more compact, better made and better sounding thanks to their technical advances there’s little that comes close to these at anywhere near the price. Highly recommended," notes Andrew Simpson, audiograde.com, April 24, 2025.
Another Big Step Forward
Take another big step forward in the continuing evolution of Bowers & Wilkins Px7 models. Compared to its esteemed predecessor, the Px7 S2e, the new Px7 S3 delivers richer detail, deeper bass, and even better clarity from a sleeker headphone design.
The best sound deserves the best fit and finish. Px7 S3 features an all-new ergonomically tested design with slimmer earcups and a refined headband for comfortable, extended listening from a sleeker headphone silhouette.
Real World Listening Features
Bowers & Wilkins calls them Real World Listening features. They include the company's latest innovations in Active Noise Cancellation, Ambient Pass-Through, and enhanced Wear Sensing technologies.
The latest generation noise cancellation feature delivers an uncompromised listening experience. Ambient Pass-Through enables external sounds, such as conversation or safety announcements, to be heard clearly without any need to remove the headphones.
The Wear Sensing feature enables your Px7 S3 to respond naturally, pausing and resuming the music simply by lifting either earpiece on or off your ear. These features can be enabled and further customized via the Bowers & Wilkins Music app, available for free on iOS and Android devices.
Fast-Charging Battery
Your Px7 S3 incorporates a rechargeable battery. When fully charged, depending on the degree of Bluetooth, Active Noise Cancellation, and Ambient Pass-Through use, the battery pack can provide up to 30 hours of continuous wireless media streaming with noise cancellation enabled at average playback volume levels.
Exceptional Wireless Performance
With aptX™ Lossless and aptX™ Adaptive Bluetooth support, the Px7 S3 adjusts dynamically to optimize performance and connection reliability. Whether you are listening to music, watching movies, or playing games, you’ll always experience the same exceptional sound quality.
Tom's Guide named them Best Headphones of 2025, noting that "these are among the best-sounding wireless headphones on the market, delivering a warm and inviting sound profile. Detail leaps years ahead, mids span miles, and the bass envelops you, crafting an immersive audio scene perfect for sinking into your favorite chair with a drink in hand. Simply put, they’re a joy to wear."
And don’t forget that you get wired connectivity, too. There's an analog input for plugging into devices with a headphone output as well as USB for listening to music from a computer.
"One of the Best Value Propositions for Serious Listeners"
"These headphones also pulled in a Highly Recommended Award from avsforums.com, which notes, "The PX7 S3 doesn't change any of the things that the preceding model did so well but it's slimmer, lighter and more elegant than ever before. The boosts to the ANC and Bluetooth platform have ensured that this is the class of the sub £500 field and good enough to challenge the models above that too."
"The Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 delivers an engaging, dynamic, and musically satisfying experience with premium build quality and competent ANC," observes W. Jennings at ecoustics.com, citing the Px7 S3 for a Best of 2025 Editors' Choice Award. "It outperforms most mid-tier competitors in sound and detail, making it one of the best value propositions for serious listeners who care more about sound than absolute noise cancellation."
Block out the World for Crystal-Clear Calls
Outstanding sound, no distractions. The Px7 S3 features advanced noise cancellation that you can adapt to your surroundings, with eight microphones for uninterrupted sound performance no matter where you are.
It uses eight precisely positioned microphones and next-generation voice technology to ensure crystal-clear call quality. Don’t miss a thing – find focus in every conversation. If you want enhanced sound quality, clearer calls, and more immersive noise cancellation, Px7 S3 has you covered.
Direct Streaming, Complete Control
The Bowers & Wilkins Music app integrates your music streaming services, lets you set your preferred type of noise cancellation, and adjust your audio preferences thanks to a new five-band EQ. Its free for Android and iOs, and it's simple and intuitive to use.
"The Px7 S3 Is Now the One to Beat"
"For those who value build quality, clean mids, and well-rounded performance over flashy features, the Px7 S3 stands out as one of the most confident Bluetooth headphone releases of the year," reports Delaney Czernikowski, audio46.com, July 7, 2025.
"Overall, I think the Px7 S3 is now the one to beat in the sub-$600 'midrange' of wireless, over-ear, noise cancelling headphones," notes Odi Productions, recordingnow.com, August 13, 2025.
"I like them enough to say that the Px7 S3 is shaping up to be one of the best headphones of 2025," concludes loudandwireess.com, May 17, 2025.
