B&O Play’s new H9i and H8i wireless cans have better battery life and design
The torrent of wireless headphone news at CES 2018 continues with one of my personal highlights: B&O Play is updating its H8 on-ear and H9 over-ear wireless headphones with new, longer-lasting models. The sound has been retuned, with the company boldly proclaiming that the H8i and H9i are “designed to overwhelm you with precision, power, and detail.”
The new H9i still has the same stitched cowhide leather headband, anodized aluminium ear cups, and lambskin pads with memory foam. But it makes two major improvements in switching to USB-C for charging — as I’d implored B&O Play to do in my original H9 review — and it gets four more hours of playtime out of its battery with a new rating of 18 hours.
In terms of design, the ear cushions have…
