The midrange is where the real musical action is invariably found, and a smooth midband is an invaluable loudspeaker quality. Enter Kevlar. It’s been Bowers & Wilkins’ cone material of choice since 1974, and with good reason. The basic woven fabric is first impregnated with a stiffening resin that cures during the cone forming process. [...]

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The final edits are being made to the next releases on the Glyndebourne CD label to be released in the autumn and we are very pleased to have been able to donate some speakers for the recording of these.

The 2009 Festival (21 May-30 August) promises the return of Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s now-classic staging of Tristan und [...]

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As everyone knows, just as CDs supplanted vinyl and cassettes, MP3 and other digital-music formats are well on their way to replacing CDs as the most popular way to listen to music.
In our minds that usually means more convenience but worse sound - though that’s a whole other story which we’ve already covered extensively in [...]

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So, you’ve bought your brand new speakers - be it our award-laden Zeppelin ipod system, the equally heavily awarded 685s or a gleaming pair of 802D’s - and you’re lining up your favourite music to test them on.
We want to know what you’ve found sounds the best. Which stand-out  track would you play when your [...]

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I am one of the newest members of the Bowers and Wilkins R&D Team, and have worked here for two and half years. All the loudspeaker systems we produce are designed at the R&D establishment in Steyning. As a development engineer I am responsible for the development and design of loudspeaker systems.
To produce great sounding [...]

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Recently we’ve been looking into the subject of acoustic holography. With this technique, a set of acoustic measurements made in one area of an acoustic field can be used to derive values elsewhere. For example, by measuring pressure with a rectangular array of microphones in front of a loudspeaker, the pressure on the surface of [...]

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Buying the right equipment will certainly get you part way along the road to good sound, but there’s lots of other stuff you can do once your new kit is in place. Tech Radar has a feature detailing 10 ways to improve the sound of your hi-fi without breaking the bank – or even without [...]

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In Steyning we currently have a number of live research projects running. One that is currently under review is in the area of Plasma Physics. Some of you may remember, though this is a big ask, B&W’s second speaker the P2, which employed a ‘plasma tweeter’. Over the years we have returned to speakers [...]

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As a way of launching the new Insider Blog I thought it might interest readers to hear a little about the R&D team based at Steyning. As many of you know, ‘loudspeaker science’ spans many different areas from electronics to psychology.

To truly grapple - and grapple is the right word as there are [...]

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After listening to the podcast discussion about surround sound in the Lab it got us wondering just how many speakers is enough for Home Theatre. The standard is obviously 5.1, with five speakers and a dedicated subwoofer. But we recently supplied speakers and amplification for a What Hi-Fi? demonstration at the Stuff Live Show for [...]

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