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Since its launch in October 2001, the Apple iPod has been responsible for a revolution in the way we enjoy music – and that’s not hyperbole. Where our portable music was once limited by how many CDs, cassettes or MiniDiscs we could carry around with,... Read more

The Bowers & Wilkins car has been re-branded as a Hot Wheels car for the the current Indy 500 race. It looks great and there will be actual Hot Wheels cars with our logo  in the stores for Christmas. For more information on how Tagliani... Read more

In September’s edition of What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision the Zeppelin Mini iPod speaker system comes out top in a four way test beating highly-rated competition from Bose, Creative and GenevaSound. The reviewers credit the Zeppelin Mini with “greater details and dynamics” than its closest... Read more

Our Zeppelin Mini iPod speaker system has been longlisted for a T3 award. Please vote for us using the link above. Read more

Home Theater Review.com review our P5 headphones with glowing results. Bowled over by the sound quality, the reviewer concludes: “The P5′s look better, sound better and simply feel better than any headphone I’ve had the privilege of owning.” You can read the full review here. Read more

In this month’s issue of Britain’s finest monthly, The Word, Johnny Rotten describes his passion for hi-fi: “Well, I start with the speakers. For me, the best in the world are B&W. British” before going on to  describe himself as a “cable nerd”. We highly... Read more

What with all the attention give to high-definition and 3D in 2010, it’d be easy to underestimate the role of great sound in the film experience. But think about it: what was it that made the shark attack in Jaws so scary? Why did the... Read more

Bowers & Wilkins and Jaguar engineers spent four years developing the system for the XJ and to underline just how hard a task it was, we were allowed to dictate some of the XJ’s interior design in order to get our speakers in the correct... Read more

In their words, Maximum PC “haven’t been this excited about a set of boom boxes since…September 1996″ They tested them using Peter Gabriel’s new album, Scratch My Back, and describe the sound as sending “chills down our spines, a sensation rapidly followed by slack-jawed awe”.... Read more

Fantastic footage of John Debney scoring the new Robert Rodriguez produced Predators film. The music sounds absolutely stunning and we’re very pleased to see he’s using our speakers. Starring Adrian Brody and Laurence Fishburne, the film is due for release in July 2010. Read more