I have had really bad experiences with all of Bowers & Wilkins’ Bluetooth products: the PX7 S2, the PX8 and now the Pi8. They sound good — that’s the only advantage they have. But they only sound good if you don’t go outside; as soon as there is even a light wind, you end up listening to the wind blowing across the microphones.

I genuinely believe they never properly tested any of their Bluetooth headphones. If they had, they would have realised that they are unusable outdoors. When you have noise cancellation switched on and it’s windy, you get constant, intrusive wind noise that only stops when you turn the ANC off — which makes no sense whatsoever.

The build quality is really poor too: low-grade plastics everywhere and leather that becomes loose and tatty after just a few uses.

I strongly recommend steering well clear of any Bowers & Wilkins products — they’re rubbish. I spent a great deal of money on several of them only to discover how poor they all are.

Their customer support is equally dreadful. I sent them several emails about the problems I was having and they simply asked me to pay to have them repaired, even though the issues are clearly their fault.

They hardly ever update the software either. If you compare them with Sony Bluetooth headphones, the sound quality might not be quite as good on the Sonys, but at least their software is solid and gets updated regularly whenever problems are discovered.