P5 Wireless – the story behind the sound
P5 Wireless are the latest iteration of Bowers & Wilkins original P5, adding wireless functionality to this range of high-performance headphones. We talked to Steyning Research Establishment’s Head of Engineering… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 23 Sep 2016
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Headphones, Listen and you'll see
Tags: P5 Original, P5 Series 2, P5 Wireless, Stuart Nevill
BELL X1 – The Making of ARMS
It starts in a renovated garage in north Dublin, with Paul Noonan, David Geraghty and Dominic Phillips, the three members of Bell X1, on the cusp of recording their seventh… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 31 Aug 2016
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Listen and you'll see, New music
Tags: ARMS, Bell X1
Bell X1 playlist
ARMS, the new album from Bell X1, available on Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound this month, is a nine-song collection radiating with shabby grace and soft-focus elegance, but there’s also a bruised,… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 25 Aug 2016
Categories: Listen and you'll see, Top 10 playlists, What are you listening to
Tags: ARMS, Bell X1, playlist, top 10 playlist
Get Will Carruthers’ brilliant Spacemen 3 memoir with 30% discount
Will Carruthers’ memoir, Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands, tells the story of one of the most influential, revered and demented British bands of the 1980s, Spacemen 3. “I can… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 19 Aug 2016
Categories: Faber Social, Listen and you'll see, What are you listening to
Tags: Faber Social, Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands, Will Caruthers
Faber Social present: Will Carruthers – Ghosts of heat and light
Faber Social is the unerringly cool arm of London’s Faber & Faber publishing house. Over the coming months we will be featuring exclusive essays, extracts and articles from some of… Read more
Posted on: Tuesday, 16 Aug 2016
Categories: Faber Social, Listen and you'll see, What are you listening to
Tags: Faber Social, Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands, Will Caruthers
Making of the new 800 Series Diamond
We went behind the scenes at the Bowers & Wilkins factory in Worthing, UK to see just how the new 800 Series Diamond is made. We followed one of the… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 12 Aug 2016
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Hi-fi speakers, Listen and you'll see, New products
Tags: 800 D3, 800 series diamond
Zeppelin Wireless – the story behind great sound
Zeppelin™ Wireless delivers a dramatic leap forward in sound quality when compared to the already exceptional and award-winning Zeppelin Air. We talked to the product’s Senior Development Engineer Tom O’Brien,… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 5 Aug 2016
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Listen and you'll see, New products, Wireless music systems
Tags: Bluetooth, Senior Development Engineer, Spotify Connect, Tom O’Brien, Zeppelin Wireless
Production Notes: Producer Kevin Bacon Explains the Inspiration and Philosophy behind Naked
In 2011 Kevin took the opportunity to progress an idea coined many years before, a return to recording artists in a sonically pure and ambitious way. Having been heavily influenced… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 3 Aug 2016
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Listen and you'll see, Music, New music
Tags: A Naked Session, Kevin Bacon, production notes
Faber Social present: Jon Savage on Sonics and The Factory
Faber Social is the unerringly cool arm of London’s Faber & Faber publishing house. Over the coming months we will be featuring exclusive essays, extracts and articles from some of… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 1 Jul 2016
Categories: Faber Social, Listen and you'll see, What are you listening to
Tags: Faber & Faber, Faber Social, Jon Savage, Sonics and The Factory
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