Bowers & Wilkins PI3 vs RHA T20 (2015)

The Bowers & Wilkins PI3 makes for a good, if unremarkable, Earphone for people with a $140 budget.

The RHA T20 (2015), however, is merely mediocre at its $218 asking price, when compared to similarly priced products, and won't satisfy the needs of most people.

In either case, we suggest that you first take a look at some other options at the $140 and $250 price points before committing to one of these - it's likely that you'll be able to find some better alternatives.

If you're still interested in learning more about the Bowers & Wilkins PI3 and RHA T20 (2015), however, we wrote a summary of what we could find about them:

While the Bowers & Wilkins PI3 wasn't able to make it to the very top of any roundups from sources that perform quality hands-on testing, it still got featured in a large number of them. What Hi-Fi?, TrustedReviews, Tech Advisor, PCmag, Expert Reviews, Techradar, and Wirecutter (NYTimes) have all deemed it worthy of a place on their respective shortlists.

Moving on to the RHA T20 (2015): it was unable to reach the very top of any roundups from sources that conduct reliable and unbiased testing. Nonetheless, it still managed to impress reviewers from a number of such sites, like Head-fi, Techradar, SoundGuys, HomeTheaterReview.com, PCmag, What Hi-Fi?, TrustedReviews, Headfonics, Audioholics, and Wirecutter (NYTimes), enough for them to include them on those lists.

Out of the sources that tested and rated both of these Earphones, What Hi-Fi? and TrustedReviews preferred the Bowers & Wilkins PI3, whereas reviewers at Techradar liked the RHA T20 (2015) better. PCmag gave them identical review scores.

We also took a look at which sources liked these products best - the highest Bowers & Wilkins PI3 rating came from What Hi-Fi?, whereas the RHA T20 (2015) most impressed reviewers at Head-fi; they earned scores of 10 and 10, respectively.

Lastly, we averaged out all of the reviews scores that we could find on these two products and compared them to other Earphones on the market. We learned that both of them performed far better than most of their competitors - the overall review average earned by Earphones being 7.3 out of 10, whereas the Bowers & Wilkins PI3 and RHA T20 (2015) managed averages of 8.7 and 8.5 points, respectively.

Due to the difference in their prices, however, it's important to keep in mind that a direct Bowers & Wilkins PI3 vs. RHA T20 (2015) comparison might not be entirely fair - some sources don't take value for money into account when assigning their scores and therefore have a tendency to rate more premium products better.