Re: BW P7.
Not so long ago BW locations were few and far between, now there headphones seem to be in the Electronics Discount stores. On 18 May 2015, at 9:19 pm, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! BW is BW. So i guess i have to take the time to go and listen to them somewhere. /A 17 maj 2015 kl. 20:12 skrev John Gurd j.g...@ntlworld.com: I've got these too. They sound superb. The only disadvantage is that they can get uncomfortable over long listening periods. As stated they are designed for use with portable gismos like the iPhone and sound great but they are not ideal for short journeys as they are quite big. More importantly they are an enclosed style and cut down external sounds so if you are on a local train or bus you may not hear your stop being announced, and for a blind person walking around it wouldn't be safe. They are great for long journeys, holidays or of course listening at home. They'll sound great with any high end equipment as well as portables. John -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 17 May 2015 09:36 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: BW P7. Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves ** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
Re: BW P7.
I admit that I have not read every item in this thread, but now I am curious. Is there anyone on here who has heard or owned both the p5 and the p7? I heard the p5, although I don't own a set, and they were pretty darned nice. But reviews seem to indicate that the 7 is a significant step up. I'm always a bit skeptical of reviews that are over the top with their praise. And there is no longer a store in town that has BW products. So it'd be mail order all the way if I decide to get a pair some time later this year. I think the p5 is still made, if I'm not mistaken. Any comments? Mary
Re: BW P7.
That's quite alright Mary, I wrote about the BW P7 from my own personal experiences through hearing them, if they're available for $300 then best Grab Them Whilst They're Hot, you're not - in my view - going to get a closed pair of cans that sound as good as this for $300 I don't think. I've read one review of the P7 and I didn't think it over the top, if anything the author of the review wondered what BW could have done with those cans had they not paid such detailed attention to the build quality, is there anything that needs to be done? On 19/05/2015 1:37 AM, Mary Otten wrote: I admit that I have not read every item in this thread, but now I am curious. Is there anyone on here who has heard or owned both the p5 and the p7? I heard the p5, although I don't own a set, and they were pretty darned nice. But reviews seem to indicate that the 7 is a significant step up. I'm always a bit skeptical of reviews that are over the top with their praise. And there is no longer a store in town that has BW products. So it'd be mail order all the way if I decide to get a pair some time later this year. I think the p5 is still made, if I'm not mistaken. Any comments? Mary -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
Re: BW P7.
Hi! BW is BW. So i guess i have to take the time to go and listen to them somewhere. /A 17 maj 2015 kl. 20:12 skrev John Gurd j.g...@ntlworld.com: I've got these too. They sound superb. The only disadvantage is that they can get uncomfortable over long listening periods. As stated they are designed for use with portable gismos like the iPhone and sound great but they are not ideal for short journeys as they are quite big. More importantly they are an enclosed style and cut down external sounds so if you are on a local train or bus you may not hear your stop being announced, and for a blind person walking around it wouldn't be safe. They are great for long journeys, holidays or of course listening at home. They'll sound great with any high end equipment as well as portables. John -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 17 May 2015 09:36 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: BW P7. Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
Re: BW P7.
Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
Re: BW P7.
Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
Re: BW P7.
In that case you have nothing whatever to lose and everything to gain, particularly at the price. On 17 May 2015, at 10:10 pm, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! The cable is not a problem as i have a 10 meter cable i plug headphones to. /A 17 maj 2015 kl. 10:36 skrev Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net: Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves ** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
Re: BW P7.
They're standard stcok, the chap might even find them at Wallmart. On 18/05/2015 1:18 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Hmm well i got mine from a local store here in Stockholm but have you checked amazon for such cables? This depends of course where you live but isn’t there a company in the US that has a lot of tech stuff. Maybe a music store has such cables. /A 17 maj 2015 kl. 15:23 skrev cov...@ccs.covici.com: Where did you get that cable -- I have been looking for sometime and have not found any such taht work, I found a mono one, but that was it. Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! The cable is not a problem as i have a 10 meter cable i plug headphones to. /A 17 maj 2015 kl. 10:36 skrev Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net: Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
Re: BW P7.
Yep I agree with pretty much all of that, if you do want to use them for travelling - and you have a Smart Phone - then there are Apps that can enable the Microphone of the BW P7 so that you can hear what's going on around you, the App works in the background. There are advantages to these close headphones, for one thing you hear the sound from the cans and there's no interference from other noises like a train engine, other people talking etc - in my view its a far better solution than noise cancelling - but it does come with disadvantages as does everything I guess. I didn't realise these cans were now so cheap, BW must be really keen to push those things and I again I say, at that price - if you're looking for a most reasonable pair of cans - then jump down to your local store and pick up a pair. On 18/05/2015 4:12 AM, John Gurd wrote: I've got these too. They sound superb. The only disadvantage is that they can get uncomfortable over long listening periods. As stated they are designed for use with portable gismos like the iPhone and sound great but they are not ideal for short journeys as they are quite big. More importantly they are an enclosed style and cut down external sounds so if you are on a local train or bus you may not hear your stop being announced, and for a blind person walking around it wouldn't be safe. They are great for long journeys, holidays or of course listening at home. They'll sound great with any high end equipment as well as portables. John -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 17 May 2015 09:36 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: BW P7. Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
Re: BW P7.
I should have mentioned this in the last email as its so obvious. We get a lot of questions regarding the sound of BW products and how they sound. I can honestly say that - given I own 3 different BW products - you've heard one then you have a fair idea of how the others will sound. So I'll put that into context a little futher, I have the BW Z2 IOS/AirPlay dock which sounds bloody nice - the sound it gives out is astonishing given that the machine only has 2 speaker drivers, one for left and one for right. - Okay, so that's very basic BW sound, very good but even better than that is the BW A5 AirPlay speaker system I have which is mid-range, it extends on that basic sound of the Z2 and of course soudns even better given that it has 4 drivers in total, 2 for bass-mid range and 2 tweeters, incredibly nice. Now if you want to go further up the chain with your speaker system then the A7 is the top of the line and it sounds utterly brilliant though I still don't own one, I have heard one and there's more difference in the sound given the A7 has bigger drivers than the A5 as well as the addition of a sub-woofer, go eat your heart out and and party on smile. If you have a Z2, A5 or A7 then you have some of the best AirPlay/IOS speaker technology and quality available today, no joke and no fooling. .All these speaker systems have Aux-In jacks so you can connect an external source but the A7 goes a few steps further with a USB port for a memory stick full of music and an Optical digital in, just right for that CD Player, optical out of a computer etc. I don't know whether the USB port of the A7 can be connected to a computer but I suspect it can, when I get one I'll read the manual smile. On 18/05/2015 4:12 AM, John Gurd wrote: I've got these too. They sound superb. The only disadvantage is that they can get uncomfortable over long listening periods. As stated they are designed for use with portable gismos like the iPhone and sound great but they are not ideal for short journeys as they are quite big. More importantly they are an enclosed style and cut down external sounds so if you are on a local train or bus you may not hear your stop being announced, and for a blind person walking around it wouldn't be safe. They are great for long journeys, holidays or of course listening at home. They'll sound great with any high end equipment as well as portables. John -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 17 May 2015 09:36 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: BW P7. Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
Re: BW P7.
Hi! Hmm well i got mine from a local store here in Stockholm but have you checked amazon for such cables? This depends of course where you live but isn’t there a company in the US that has a lot of tech stuff. Maybe a music store has such cables. /A 17 maj 2015 kl. 15:23 skrev cov...@ccs.covici.com: Where did you get that cable -- I have been looking for sometime and have not found any such taht work, I found a mono one, but that was it. Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! The cable is not a problem as i have a 10 meter cable i plug headphones to. /A 17 maj 2015 kl. 10:36 skrev Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net: Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: BW P7.
Hi! The cable is not a problem as i have a 10 meter cable i plug headphones to. /A 17 maj 2015 kl. 10:36 skrev Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net: Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
RE: BW P7.
I've got these too. They sound superb. The only disadvantage is that they can get uncomfortable over long listening periods. As stated they are designed for use with portable gismos like the iPhone and sound great but they are not ideal for short journeys as they are quite big. More importantly they are an enclosed style and cut down external sounds so if you are on a local train or bus you may not hear your stop being announced, and for a blind person walking around it wouldn't be safe. They are great for long journeys, holidays or of course listening at home. They'll sound great with any high end equipment as well as portables. John -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 17 May 2015 09:36 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: BW P7. Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
Re: BW P7.
Where did you get that cable -- I have been looking for sometime and have not found any such taht work, I found a mono one, but that was it. Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! The cable is not a problem as i have a 10 meter cable i plug headphones to. /A 17 maj 2015 kl. 10:36 skrev Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net: Yep, it is though note the following. The cord is short, around 4 feet, they're really designed for Portable use b but no reason whatever! why you can't use them with your favourite stereo system. Incredibly well built as is every BW product. Wonderful bass, never heard anything like it through a pair of headphones but again, shouldn't expect anything less from a company such as BW. Yep, top is still there, loud and clear but that's BW. On 17/05/2015 6:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Has anyone these headphones? I read a review in swedesh that it was one of the best wired headphones around. I think it was $300 . Just wonder if i should stick with them or stay with my beyer dynamic dt770. /A -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
