B&W Signature Diamond
Published by Bogdan Alex, on March 13th, 2008, in the categories: B&W
When it comes to ingenious designs and unparalleled quality, the British speaker manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins is simply the cream of the crop. Their latest Signature Diamond is all about pricy diamonds and marble.
B&W proudly present their new two-way floor-standing speakers, offering new levels of musical clarity, image precision, and detail retrieval. No wonder these guys ordered a press release that would put to shame even the most sophisticated art exhibit.
According to this press release, each speaker is enclosed in a 1-meter high Matrix braced cylindrical and elliptical form enclosure finished in white or Wakame veneer. The tweeter pod is carved from Italian Grigio Carmica or Belgian Black marble, which is supposed to not only look incredibly good, but also improves the mechanical and acoustic performance of the tweeter. Apparently, no two speakers will ever be exactly the same, due to natural differences in the material, so you can be sure you’ll get a unique speaker every time you buy one. That is, if you can afford to spend £11,000 for each.
Furthermore, the Signature Diamond has a pure “Diamond Dome Nautilus” tube-loaded 25mm tweeter in the decoupled top-mounted marble pod. The Diamond Dome Nautilus tweeter uses diamond crystals to strengthen the tweeter dome to produce a cleaner, purer sound. As if this thing wasn’t already oozing with style, B&W includes a new Kevlar cone 180mm bass/midrange driver featuring an innovative new noiseless phase-plug. And that’s not all; an ear-tuned first-order crossover network is present via the extraordinary wide linear bandwidth of the drivers, while a downward-firing reflex port dubbed Flowport rounds out the exclusivist specs.
B&W proudly present their new two-way floor-standing speakers, offering new levels of musical clarity, image precision, and detail retrieval. No wonder these guys ordered a press release that would put to shame even the most sophisticated art exhibit.
According to this press release, each speaker is enclosed in a 1-meter high Matrix braced cylindrical and elliptical form enclosure finished in white or Wakame veneer. The tweeter pod is carved from Italian Grigio Carmica or Belgian Black marble, which is supposed to not only look incredibly good, but also improves the mechanical and acoustic performance of the tweeter. Apparently, no two speakers will ever be exactly the same, due to natural differences in the material, so you can be sure you’ll get a unique speaker every time you buy one. That is, if you can afford to spend £11,000 for each.
Furthermore, the Signature Diamond has a pure “Diamond Dome Nautilus” tube-loaded 25mm tweeter in the decoupled top-mounted marble pod. The Diamond Dome Nautilus tweeter uses diamond crystals to strengthen the tweeter dome to produce a cleaner, purer sound. As if this thing wasn’t already oozing with style, B&W includes a new Kevlar cone 180mm bass/midrange driver featuring an innovative new noiseless phase-plug. And that’s not all; an ear-tuned first-order crossover network is present via the extraordinary wide linear bandwidth of the drivers, while a downward-firing reflex port dubbed Flowport rounds out the exclusivist specs.
B&W to Release the Liberty Wireless Audio System
Published by Sierra, on January 22nd, 2008, in the categories: B&W
The Liberty audio system concept designed and built by Bowers & Wilkins was first presented at Customer Electronics Show this year and now the famous company announced its launching on the market in autumn this year.
Liberty consists of four active speakers based on the XT series and PV1 and comes with the CP-1 controller, being the first wireless audio system capable to transmit eight channels and it can also be set for 5.1 full surround sound, having two channels especially for the remote areas.
The system announced contains two XTW 8 speakers, a pair of XTW 2 speakers, one XTW central channel and the PVW 1 subwoofer.
In addition it comes with two integrated amplifiers from the D class and a control unit.
Liberty is indeed an advanced system using the dynamic selection of channels permitting the changing of frequencies and the one with the lowest traffic, removing this way the sounds delays.
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