Hands-on: B&O’s first wireless noise-cancelling headphones are gesture-controlled stunners

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by Sindy Cator on January 7, 2015 at 8:45 pm

Thought it’s not like there is any shortage of Bluetooth headphones out there, Bang and Olufsen is now throwing itself into the fray. At its CES event yesterday, the audio company showed off the newest model in its headphones series, the H8. But more so than its other models, these small on-ears are aimed at practicality: it’s the first B&O earset with active noise cancelling (ANC) and wireless connectivity. Now, if you’re serious about your audio, you might know those two things typically spell sound-quality disaster. Bluetooth compression generally introduces artifacts, and interference from the ANC system degrades the signal playing from…