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Seemingly moribund with the onset of CD, vinyl, especially audiophile vinyl, is now enjoying, says Paul Rigby, both a cultural and marketing renaissance. Vinyl was supposed to be finished. As a mass medium, that much was true. However, like any mature industry which has experienced an... Read more

An insightful and exclusive interview with Allan Rouse, project co-ordinator of the Beatles remastered boxsets... Read more

High resolution downloads are changing the way we enjoy music, opening up possibilities undreamed of back in digital’s early days… It’s hard to understate the impact that Compact Disc made, upon its introduction back in 1982. At the time, the music world was very different, with... Read more

Sparked on by a love of classic record producers such as Phil Spector, Joe Meek, and Sam Phillips, Bowers & Wilkins got together a panel of musical experts to see what they had to tell us about music and sound reproduction. Producers, musicians, and people... Read more

Continuing on our mission as sound evangelists we invited a group of journalists to a Sound Tasting at Abbey Road Studios. The aim was to give them an insight into how a speaker engineer (in this case, B&W Senior Development Engineer Dr John Dibb), goes... Read more

Bowers & Wilkins has hosted the latest in its series of sound debates at London’s Strongroom studios. This time the hot topic was surround sound, and how it compared to stereo. The round-table discussion was hosted by Martyn Ware, himself an advocate of multichannel audio... Read more

(Martyn Ware discusses the huge changes in making and listening to music with a panel of experts in our exclusive podcast) In a small recording studio in East London, four industry professionals – and passionate music fans – met with Martyn Ware to discuss this all... Read more

Discovering the Creative Potential of Audio The premiere of the John Cage’s 4′33″ was given by David Tudor on August 29, 1952, at Woodstock, New York as part of a recital of contemporary piano music. The piece was composed for any instrument, or any combination of... Read more