Pristine sound quality • Eerily quiet noise-cancellation • High-quality construction
Mighty empty your wallet and then some
The Beoplay H9 headphones are exactly as advertised, but the price point makes them hard to recommend to non-enthusiasts.
One of the world’s biggest unfixable problems is that it’s loud everywhere. All the racket that the world generates can be distracting when you need to put your head down and get some work done.
That’s where noise-cancelling headphones come in. Antisocial as it might be, sometimes it’s nice to just drown out the world and blast some music of your choosing. I had the opportunity to spend the better part of a week with the new Beoplay H9 headphones from Bang & Olufsen, and if you can absorb the $500 financial hit, you might find something to like here.
The part that matters is great
The new H9 model would be a total failure if they didn’t sound great. That’s kind of the whole point of headphones, after all. On that front, I really can’t complain about anything the H9 does.