McLaren and Bowers & Wilkins launch the Px8 McLaren Edition headphones /

Bowers & Wilkins, the renowned British premium audio brand, has launched a McLaren edition of its latest flagship wireless headphones, the Px8, along with British luxury supercar maker McLaren Automotive. The Px8 McLaren Edition is built on the reference standard of sound quality of the new Px8, while the premium design honors the partnership with the luxury supercar manufacturer, which has brought groundbreaking innovations to in-car audio.

Introducing the Px8 McLaren Edition

To celebrate the partnership between McLaren and Bowers & Wilkins and the high-performance hybrid McLaren Artura supercar that features the two companies’ award-winning collaboration, Bowers & Wilkins has created a specially designed version of its Px8 wireless headphones, the Px8 McLaren Edition. .

Since 2015, Bowers & Wilkins has been responsible for developing the high-performance audio systems in McLaren’s supercars and hypercars.

Bowers & Wilkins, one of the world’s most respected audio brands, is known for pushing the limits of speaker capacity, aiming to reveal as much of the original recording as possible – without ever altering or distorting that sound. This pursuit of perfection, instilled by founder John Bowers, is still evident today.

The partnership builds on strong engineering foundations that have already been recognized for three iF design awards for Bowers & Wilkins’ system integrations in the McLaren Speedtail, McLaren GT and most recently the McLaren Artura.

Bowers & Wilkins worked closely with McLaren’s design and engineering teams to create and optimize the audio system found in the company’s first mass-produced high-performance hybrid supercar, the McLaren Artura.

Like its McLaren predecessors, the Artura features the very latest loudspeaker technologies, developed in Southwater, home to the Bowers & Wilkins research and development team since 2019 and just 30 miles from McLaren’s global headquarters in Surrey, where its supercars and hypercars are built by hand.

The Px8 McLaren Edition features a galvanic gray finish and papaya orange accents, the latter inspired by the famous papaya orange that originated in founder Bruce McLaren’s early racing cars.

Sharing McLaren’s obsession with technical and performance aesthetics, the Px8 McLaren Edition headphones deliver wireless sound quality synonymous with Bowers & Wilkins.

At the heart of the McLaren Edition Px8 is outstanding performance with outstanding detail, resolution and spaciousness courtesy of all-new custom 40mm Carbon Cone drive units, inspired by technology used in reference quality loudspeakers from Bowers & Wilkins.

The Carbon Cone drive units in the Px8 McLaren Edition have been carefully placed in each ear cup to ensure a consistent relative distance to the listener’s ears from any point across the surface of each driver to provide a more immersive and highly accurate soundstage. produce.

The result is the best sound quality Bowers & Wilkins has ever delivered with wireless headphones.

Unparalleled high-resolution sound with noise reduction

The Px8 uses Qualcomm’s aptXTM Adaptive wireless technology to ensure the best possible sound quality from compatible phones, tablets and computers. USB-C and 3.5mm analog cable connections are also supported, with both cable types included in the custom matching carrying case that comes with the product.

Whether using wireless or wired connections, the Px8 combines its ultra-high-performance drive unit configuration with powerful Bowers & Wilkins-developed Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to deliver outstanding 24-bit, high-resolution sound quality from leading streaming services.

The Px8 uses patented Bowers & Wilkins optimized noise reduction technology to effectively shut out unwanted noise – crucially, without compromising musicality.

Six powerful microphones work together to deliver the best results: two measure the output of each drive unit, two respond to ambient noise from the outside world, and two provide excellent voice clarity with enhanced noise reduction.

A breakthrough in user experience

The Px8 McLaren Edition will use the same recently upgraded Bowers & Wilkins Music App for installation and use. The Music app allows Px8 users to stream their chosen music directly from their mobile device to their headphones, with Deezer, Qobuz and TIDAL all supported.

As before, the Music app also simplifies the Px8’s connection to a mobile device, supports sound fine-tuning via adjustable EQ, and allows owners to configure their preferred noise-cancelling mode, while setting the headphone’s charge level. keep an eye out.