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Get the most from a Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin

Posted on Monday, 5 October 2009    Comments (13)

If you have a Zeppelin, we hope that you are already enjoying the fantastic sound that it offers. But as is always the way with hi-fi, if you put a bit of thought into placement the resulting performance will improve. Small things can make a big difference in audio.
For starters, the more solid a platform [...]

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Do we need another digital music format?

Posted on Tuesday, 11 August 2009    Comments (8)

According to What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision the music industry is getting together to launch another new digital music format. The new downloadable format - currently called CMX - will provide users with more than just music. It will also offer lyrics, artwork and other bonus goodies.
There doesn’t appear to be any mention of sound [...]

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How do you play your 24-bit FLAC files?

Posted on Thursday, 6 August 2009    Comments (284)

The 24-bit FLAC files we offer full members of Society of Sound are proving incredibly popular. They are close to being the most popular of the three formats we offer, which is both reassuring, and a little bit surprising. Reassuring because we feel that they offer the best sound quality possible, and we know that [...]

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Zeppelin - what’s playing on yours?

Posted on Tuesday, 14 July 2009    Comments (12)

There’s nothing we like more at Bowers & Wilkins’ London offices than racing in first thing in the morning, plugging an iPod into the office Zeppelin hitting ’shuffle songs’ and seeing what comes up.
All of our music is stored in wonderful Lossless-quality audio obviously, so we get the very best out of the Zeppelin. This [...]

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CES 2009 - The first day of the show by Jennifer McNeil

Posted on Friday, 9 January 2009    Comments (0)

Returning for its second year at CES, B&W’s Zeppelin has been very well received and is once again the star of the show.
Although Zeppelin was launched as an iPod speaker, we are utilizing our CES display to demonstrate the many alternative uses of the Zeppelin. It is way more than an iPod speaker; it’s an [...]

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Choosing the right music for the B&W Zeppelin and Apple iTouch

Posted on Monday, 1 December 2008    Comments (0)

Christmas is almost upon us, and as usual we’re all planning our festive shopping, or out buying things on a whim. In order to get people as excited about the Zeppelin as we are, we’re promoting our multi-award winning iPod speaker system in numerous John Lewis stores in the UK allowing people to have a [...]

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Apple Lossless Confusion

Posted on Friday, 21 November 2008    Comments (2)

There’s a lot of confusion about audio encoding, and how to get the best out of your digital music. Obviously we at B&W are keen to promote the benefits of lossless encoding, especially with our Music Club and Zeppelin iPod speaker system.
However, confusion abounds about how to get lossless versions of your music onto your [...]

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Is Blu-Ray the saviour of high-quality stereo?

Posted on Wednesday, 19 November 2008    Comments (5)

It’s been known for a while that Neil Young’s long-awaited Archives is going to be released on Blu-ray. But now that Amazon in the US is taking pre-release orders it got us thinking about Blu-ray as an audio format. There’s very little music currently available on the new format, and much of that is surround [...]

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