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the bang & olufsen h9 eyes are a pair of beautifully designed premium headphones that worked pretty well but they also have a little brother the bang and all of sin h8 eye on your headphones these two headphones have a lot in common but they also have some major differences so let's see what the hundred on the price difference between these two headphones gets you for this review I'm going to be focusing exclusively on the Bang and all of sin h8i headphones if you want to learn more about the h9 eyes then click on the eye icon above the bang and all of sin h8i come in two colorways you can get them in a two-tone colorway like I have them here or you can get them in an all-black call away like the h9 eyes and personally I prefer the all-black call away over the natural colorway the Bang & Olufsen h8i headphones retails for $399 that's the same as the Bowers and Wilkins px which are over ear headphones when hundred dollars less than the h9 eyes and fifty dollars more than the Sony 1000 XM 2 which are the top dog right now when it comes to noise cancellation technology if you want to pick these headphones up I'll have links in description below and if you use the links really helps out the channel alright if you watched my bein all h9 I video then you're going to have a little bit of deja vu here the h8 eyes come with the USB C 2 USB a cable for charging because it has a USB C port and it also comes with a 3.5 mm audio cable forward listening and yes they can be used passively and they also come with an airplane adapter and the 88 eyes are also come with the same fleece carrying pouch that comes included with the h9 eyes and like I said before even though this pouch does feel like it's good quality when I'm paying 400 or 500 dollars for a pair of headphones I'm kind of expecting a hard shell carrying case ok now let's get to the headphones just like the h9 eyes the h8 eyes have Cal hide leather on its headband which looks very nice and it also has lambskin leather on his ear pads and the leather on the ear pads on both the h8i and h9 I feels much more luxurious than the synthetic leather you would find on say the Sony 1000 x m2 and just like the padding on the h9 eyes depending on the h8 eyes don't overheat too much after extended listening sessions and just like the h9 eyes the h8 eyes also has a brushed aluminum frame and fabric and padding underneath the headband but surprisingly the h8 eyes have more padding underneath its headband than the h9 eyes and personally I wouldn't mind a little more padding under the headband of the h9 eyes regarding comfort well keep in mind these are on ear headphones and as on ear headphones go please feel pretty good they have a little bit more clamping force than the h9 eye but they do a very good job of not shifting around when you're walking the range of motion on these ear cups is pretty good so they'll be able to conform to most head shapes so they don't apply any unnecessary pressure unlike the bestow low 3 whose ear cups have very little range of motion and do apply pressure on your jaw these headphones weigh in at 215 grams and even though they are fairly comfortable I do have a bias towards over ear headphones if you're a guy with a smaller head or a lady they should fit you just fine but if you're a guy with the bigger head like me then over here is the way to go as Metzen before and just like the h9 eyes the h8 I also has a USB C port for charging and a 3.5 mm audio jack for Wired listening but the first big major difference between the h9 I and h8i are the controls the h9 eyes have a touchpad on the right ear cups of controlling music playback and other settings and for the most part it works very well but the h8i has a switch on his left ear Cup which powers on the device and toggles both noise cancellation and transparency mode on and off and I'll demonstrate those in a minute and the right ear cup you have your traditional volume up and volume down buttons and a multi-purpose button now these buttons have a good amount of tactile feedback but since I touched these buttons on a regular basis I wish they were made out of metal not plastic cause remember these are $400 headphones the h8i are also using bluetooth for that too and that's a side note why don't more headphones have bluetooth 5.0 I mean just comment down below if you know anyways the h8 I have a range of 40 feet and very little latency watching videos on these headphones is okay but there is a little bit of latency which my bothers some people like myself but these headphones can be connected to two devices at the same time so switching from your phone to your computer on a regular basis like I do is much easier just like the h9 I the h8 I also has proximity sensors built-in and it works pretty well when you take your headphones off automatically positive music and when you put their back on just start playing your music again although this feature works pretty well I technically keep it off because I just don't want my headphones to start playing music and max volume every time I put them on now battery life is the main thing the h8i has over the h9 i with anc and bluetooth turn on the h9 i typically average 20 hours of playback time with the volume set at 50 percent under the same conditions the h8i lasted up to 32 hours of playback time and with anc turned off these little guys lasted 47 hours that's a huge difference given that the Bang & Olufsen h9 I struggles with battery life the h8i is rocking in 1110 milliamp hour battery while the h9 I is rocking a 770 milliamp hour battery but the battery on the h9 I is removable so if you get to a point where your battery just won't call to charge anymore you could just replace with the battery but on the hii you don't have that option now personally I find it weird that the h8i has a much larger battery than the h9 I'm sound quality on the h8 eye is very good though but these do have effect sound signature just like the h9 I so you're not going to get a lot of thump in the base but the loads do resonate quite a bit which is what I look for in premium headphones both the h9 I and h8i both have 40 millimeter diameter drivers and for the most part I really can't tell a difference when it comes to cell quality instrument separation sound stage the lows and highs all performed nearly identical on both headphones they performed very well in the lows but they do struggle a bit to put an emphasis on the vocals or trouble no matter how much I play around with their app what really does change the sound quality between these two headphones is the padding with the h9 eyes you have a better seal and your ears have more room so you get a better and more relaxed listening experience with the h8 I since they are on ear headphones if the padding isn't perfectly sitting on your ears the sound quality drastically change when it comes to noise cancellation on the h8 I surprisingly it has less cabin pressure than the h9 eyes which is weird because I was expecting them both to have the same amount of cabin pressure but the noise cancellation on the h8 eye is not as good as the noise cancellation on the h9 I obviously since these are on your headphones they are in a disadvantage because they don't create as much of a seal as the h9 eyes and they don't have as much passive noise isolation the anc technology on these headphones does almost as good of a job of blocking out road noise like the h9 eye but it doesn't do nearly as well when it comes to blocking out voices if noise cancellation is very important to you then you have better options out there at a lower price namely the sony 1000 XM 2 the h8 eyes also features transparency mode and I love it when headphones have this type of feature it allows you to talk to people without having to take your headphones off when you press down on the left switch the headphones will pause your music and pump in all of the ambient sounds so you can hear what's going on around you and then when you press down on the switch again the headphones will go back to normal and start playing your music again the h8 eyes app is also very similar to the h9 eyes app and all you can really do is controlling music playback or just a volume and play around with the h8 ICQ settings like I mentioned before the app is very nice but I wish it gave you more control over the headphones most noticeably the EQ settings I like how the h8i and h9 i sound when I have them set to excited but I wish I could also make the lows resonate a bit more like I mentioned in my h9 I review I also wish you could control how much noise cancellation these headphones have recently B&O added a new toggle to turn a and C on or off on the h9 I from the app but I still can't specify how much a and C I want and for some strange reason the h8 I didn't get this button again being always app is pretty but I wish it was more useful and here's the microphone test for the Bang & Olufsen h8i on your headphones and it sounds as good as the microphone on the h9 I headphones there might be a little bit of static here and there but other than that it's passable but this audio clip is being recorded by the microphone on the obey and Olufsen h8i on your headphones so you can be nicer to that so banging all of Sims new h8i and h9 i headphones are v good elegant they are very comfortable and they sound great the noise cancellation on the h9 I is better than the noise cancellation on the h8i but the h8 I completely outclasses the h99 regarding battery life but still $400 for a pair of on your headphones is a hard sell unless you're a guy with a small head or a woman and you really like the design and I mean really like the design then you can justify getting these headphones but in almost every other case I would say just spend the extra hundred bucks and get the age of nine I sure you're going to take a huge hit in the battery life Department but I think comfort is almost as important as sound quality when it comes to headphones the h9 I are so comfortable they basically melt around your head whereas the h8 I you never forget they're there but if you strictly have a 400 dollar budget for headphones that I suggest you just get the Bowers and Wilkins px contingent on you not having a big head if your snapback looks like it's holding on for dear life then the Bowers & Wilkins px ain't for you just be safe get the 1000 xm2 and go get some chick-fil-a with the change hey if you enjoyed the video please like and subscribe it helps out more than you realize for more product reviews and deal alerts check out Jim Carrey that net if you wanna support the channel pick up a shirt and I'll catch you next time