Over-Ear
Audeze LCD-2 Closed
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$1,000
Full review dataAudeze LCD-2 Closed vs Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2: which should you buy?
Specs, scores and condensed review verdicts for the Audeze LCD-2 Closed vs Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2, side by side. Where a product has no HearWiki score yet, not enough reviews have been aggregated to rate it.
Score breakdown
Each axis is a 0–10 blend of what reviewers scored, not a lab measurement.
Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 leads on 7 of 7 measures.
- Audeze LCD-2 Closed
- Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2
HearWiki score
-
85
Sound
-
9.5
Noise cancelling
-
8.0
Battery
-
8.5
Calls
-
7.0
Value
-
5.5
Price (USD)
$1,000
$800
Generation & platform
The scores rank quality. This is the other question: is the newer one actually newer technology, or the same platform in a new shell?
Same generation
The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 is 8 years newer, but it is the same generation of hardware: nothing in the radio, the codecs or the noise cancelling separates them. The platform is level; the newer hardware shows up in convenience features instead - the Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 adds USB-C. For 8 years between them, that is a thin return - treat this as a restyle rather than a new platform.
- LCD-2 Closed2018
- Px8 S220268 yr newer
What differsLCD-2 ClosedPx8 S2
- USB-C
- No
- Yes
Everyday features
Specifications
LCD-2 ClosedPx8 S2
- Type
- Over-Ear
- Over-Ear
- Price (USD)
- $1,000
- $800
- HearWiki score
- Not scored
- 85
- Released
- 2018
- 2026
- Availability
- Discontinued
- Sold new
- Driver
- 106 mm planar magnetic
- 2× 40 mm dynamic
- Driver type
- planar
- dynamic
- Driver size
- 106 mm
- 40 mm
- Drivers per side
- -
- 2
- Frequency response
- 10 Hz - 50 kHz
- -
- Impedance
- 70 Ω
- -
- Sensitivity
- 101 dB/mW
- -
- Bluetooth
- -
- 5.3
- Codecs
- -
- SBC, AAC, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless
- Multipoint pairing
- -
- Yes
- Battery life
- -
- 30 h
- Battery life (ANC on)
- -
- 30 h
- Quick charge
- -
- 15 min → 7 h
- Wireless charging
- -
- No
- Active noise cancelling
- -
- Yes
- ANC type
- -
- hybrid
- Transparency mode
- -
- Yes
- Companion app
- -
- Yes
- Custom EQ
- -
- Yes
- Wear detection
- -
- Yes
- Controls
- -
- buttons
- Voice assistant
- -
- Yes
- Weight
- 595 g
- 310 g
- Foldable
- -
- Yes
- Detachable cable
- Yes
- Yes
- USB-C
- No
- Yes
- Connector
- -
- USB-C
- Balanced connection
- Yes
- -
- Model code
- 100-L2-1023-00
- -
- Microphones
- -
- 8
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