Just resurrecting this thread as I am considering treating myself to a pair. Perhaps there will be a modest discount come Black Friday? Either way I am on the look out for a decent pair of headphones.

Wondered if other forum users who own these headphones also think they are worth the price tag? I am happy to pay anything up to £1,000 for the best set of headphones (sound quality wise) but are these them? Always difficult when you have a passion for a certain brand as I do with B&O. A bias opinion may not be right one. Be interested to hear other thoughts. Thanks, Simon.

The Beonic Man wrote:

Just resurrecting this thread as I am considering treating myself to a pair. Perhaps there will be a modest discount come Black Friday? Either way I am on the look out for a decent pair of headphones.

Wondered if other forum users who own these headphones also think they are worth the price tag? I am happy to pay anything up to £1,000 for the best set of headphones (sound quality wise) but are these them? Always difficult when you have a passion for a certain brand as I do with B&O. A bias opinion may not be right one. Be interested to hear other thoughts. Thanks, Simon.

BV11-46, BV8-32, V1-32, BS2, P6, A1, E8, BR1, Essence

Duels... by spending £800 on a pair of headphones that aren’t worth £800!!! Should that turn out to be the case of course. Was that really a serious question? I am not in the habit of spending money just for the sake of it; I like to believe that what I am paying for is worth the price tag.

The Beonic Man wrote:

Duels... by spending £800 on a pair of headphones that aren’t worth £800!!! Should that turn out to be the case of course. Was that really a serious question? I am not in the habit of spending money just for the sake of it; I like to believe that what I am paying for is worth the price tag.

I bought mine, owned them 1 day, sent them straight back and received a full refund (after 3 weeks!). Nothing to do with audio quality, just fundamentally thought I looked a right old fool wearing them! Caught a glimpse in the mirror and thought: they are going back. And did. There's just something about the size and style that might suit a guy with a sharp face, but anyone with a slightly rounded face, these look daft (at least to me).

I wouldn't have worn them in public.

I've kept my H8's though.

Do you think the sound quality matches the asking price though Moxxey?

Are there better headphones on the market to consider? I am not really a headphone person so not much personal experience aside from a pair of E8s. It seems Seinheiser, Bose and even Sony (a lot lower priced) all have award winning headphones. I would also like to know if there is a significant difference between the H95 and 3rd Gen H9s?

The H9 3rd gen are an excellent headphone as well at half the price. The H95 are more of an audiophile quality headphone. Very smooth and balanced and you can literally listen to them for hours without ear fatigue. They are the only B&O product I own that replaced a more expensive product - based on comfort, audio quality, build and convenience. They replaced both a pair of Focal (I used wired at home) and H9 (used for travel and work)

I use headphones a lot and despite being a B&O fan have given all of their upmarket phones a miss.

Like most things it depends on what you value most and in the wireless field there are few choices at the top end of the market because you can buy super-audio quality, cabled phones, for little more than £800. For that reason there is little competition in that sector of the market.

Once you choose wireless it is a trade-off between quality materials, audio quality, features and price.

The H95: Comfortable, yes. Great build quality, yes. Audio quality, middling. Features, severely lacking.

If you want an easy-to-use pair of casual phones look at the Sony 1000XM4. Nowhere near the build quality of the H95 and a little work needed on the built-in EQ but features and codecs far in advance at about half the price.

If you prize audio quality most go for wired and there are a lot of great phones out there at that price.

If it's a compromise choice go for the H95 but you won't get bang for your buck!

I bought them 2 weeks ago. I wanted to get ANC headphones, but I never experienced other brands, just went straight forward to B&O. My first intention was to order them for testing because of price tag and than return them back but I never did. I was shocked by sound. They are awesome for almost every genre out of box with default EQ. I'm not experienced B&O owner, I have only A1 bluetooth speaker which was my first experience with B&O product and I was shocked as well how can such small speaker perform like it does so I was kinda hoping in same experience with H95. Design is great, but it's subjective opinion. You like it or not. Theye are comfortable, but if you wear glassis with wide and thick arms you have to put them down because ear cup doesn't seal that well which is causing performance degradation especially for lower frequncies. In that case use lenses as I do :) Most of the time I use them behind PC through jack cable. I know there are better sounding cable only headphones in similar price range, but I want ANC for reason (noisy environment while working) and have ability to simply unplug cable from ear cup and move away to do some calls or whatever. I'm satisfied with ANC. I does exactly what I expected. Can't hear ambient noise while listening. Of course you can hear environemnt while you pause music but I doubt there is someone who will wear any ANC headphones just for ANC itself. In my opinion it's not meant to be used that anyway. I like fact I can use them wirelessly, through jack cable or even while charging through usb-c cable and I can toggle ANC/Transparency in all cases.

I bought 5.0 bluetooth USB dongle to experience aptx adaptive but I can get only standard aptx to work on Windows 10. I know I will not hear much difference, but it's there so I want try at least. Anyone found a way how to try this quite new qulcomm codec?

I have technical question. I use them on jack cable connected to Steinberg UR12 audio interface supporting ASIO do I wonder how to set volumes. Max out volume on heapdhones and regulate on audio interface or vice versa? I found it better max out on headphones because when I did it opposite way (maxed on sound card) I heard some distortion and crackling during peaks, but I'm not sure if it's good for headphones overall to have them set on max volume even music reproduction is on decent level. Or third option would be to find balance between headphones and sound card volume levels.

Thought I had answered but my post disappeared :-(

Great that you really like them :-)

In my experience you are better to increase the volume on the amp (provided you do not have noise) but leave yourself sufficient headroom for loud passages.

Then adjust/increase the headphone volume until you get the right balance.