Hi all.
I'm new here and wanted to get your thoughts on a matter.
I recently bought some Bowers and Wilkins PX7 headphones. They were supposed to be an upgrade to my 7 year old Sennheiser Momentum On-Ear headphones. However I was disappointed to find that music on the PX7s sounded more muffled, less detailed and more processed compared to the Momentum On-Ears. I have been using the analogue 3.5mm connection on the PX7s with noise cancelling turned off so that should give the best possible sound quality and I listen to FLAC files on a Samsung Galaxy S10 using the Poweramp app. At first I thought I was being paranoid and it was because I had gotten used to my old headphones for so long but having done some back to back listening I am convinced that the same music from the same source sounds better, to my ears at least, on the Momentum On-Ears. It's not that the PX7s are bad per se, it's just that they don't sound as good as the Momentum On-Ears which are on paper inferior headphones (I was expecting the PX7 to be a marked improvement on sound quality not the other way round!). Do you think my PX7s might be faulty or am I being paranoid? Should I really have been expecting better sound quality? I appreciate that these things are subjective and it's difficult to answer these question without actually listening to the headphones but any thoughts and opinions would be much appreciated.
I'm new here and wanted to get your thoughts on a matter.
I recently bought some Bowers and Wilkins PX7 headphones. They were supposed to be an upgrade to my 7 year old Sennheiser Momentum On-Ear headphones. However I was disappointed to find that music on the PX7s sounded more muffled, less detailed and more processed compared to the Momentum On-Ears. I have been using the analogue 3.5mm connection on the PX7s with noise cancelling turned off so that should give the best possible sound quality and I listen to FLAC files on a Samsung Galaxy S10 using the Poweramp app. At first I thought I was being paranoid and it was because I had gotten used to my old headphones for so long but having done some back to back listening I am convinced that the same music from the same source sounds better, to my ears at least, on the Momentum On-Ears. It's not that the PX7s are bad per se, it's just that they don't sound as good as the Momentum On-Ears which are on paper inferior headphones (I was expecting the PX7 to be a marked improvement on sound quality not the other way round!). Do you think my PX7s might be faulty or am I being paranoid? Should I really have been expecting better sound quality? I appreciate that these things are subjective and it's difficult to answer these question without actually listening to the headphones but any thoughts and opinions would be much appreciated.