The Bang & Olufsen Over-Ear Headphones are designed to compete and built to make you happy. The specification is up to par, performance is almost entirely impressive, and intangibles like ‘pride of ownership’ are sky-high as well.
Bang & Olufsen has clearly backed itself into a corner with its recent wireless over-ear headphones. The company’s significant reputation has been built on a distinct and opulent design vocabulary, which is the last thing anyone wants in their wireless headphones. With products like these, function absolutely trumps form, and who among us wants an overwrought or otherwise odd-looking pair of headphones? Exactly. ..
Bang & Olufsen delivered a recognisable pair of headphones that are made of a variety of luxurious and expensive materials, but these materials are used to serve a design. As a result, no matter which of the available finishes ‘dark maroon,’ sand,’ ‘black anthracite,’ or ‘timber’ you choose, the Beoplay HX look like a reasonably upmarket pair of wireless over-ear headphones.
Bang & Olufsen’s new HX headphones are made of high-quality materials and have a well-balanced clamping force. They are also slow to absorb your body heat and slow to return it to you, which is not always the case with over-ear headphones. ..
The Beoplay HX are a pair of headphones that come with a touch-surface on the outside of the right earcup that controls volume up/down, play/pause, and skip forwards/backwards. There is also a power button on the same side as the Bluetooth pairing button. The left earcup has a button for cycling through your active noise-cancellation options on off, transparency, or both. The headphones also have voice-assistant capabilities which can be accessed by pressing the voice assistant button on the left earcup. ..
