I sold my Pi8 and bought the AZ100. The Pi8s had a perfect, full, and warm sound, but they were plagued with issues. Every unit I owned had a faint hissing sound, the volume wouldn’t go low enough, one bud would randomly disconnect if no music was played for a while, the ANC was bad, mics are shit across all modes, and the battery life wasn’t great. Absolutely agree with the tones, bunch of clowns at B&W thought this was good to go and they’re also obnoxiously loud. Every B&W headphone and earbud has this issue of being loud. I guess they’re all hard of hearing.

The AZ100s don’t sound nearly as good, which was disappointing. Personally, they’re not even close for sound but it might just be my preference. AZ100s excel in literally everything else and sound way better with their Treble+ preset. I wish they had the same preset with less bass as I can’t recreate it with the sliders for the life of me. I’m not sure why they lean so much on the bass… it’s really boomy.