Posted on Thursday, 22 October 2009
We recently invited B&W customers to ask us questions. We’ve had an overwhelming response and we’ve tried to answer as many as we can.
Several of the questions will be answered in depth and posted in the Lab area of SoS later on this year but we thought you might have some opinions on the one [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 17 September 2009
Excellent graphic from NY Times on the sales life of the different music formats from 1973 to 2008.
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Posted on Thursday, 10 September 2009
It’s been impossible to avoid the news of the Beatles remasters and much debate has ensued within the office. Primarily, why the mono boxset has less content, no DVD, but costs £30 pounds more than the stereo boxset and which individual albums would we be buying (White Album most popular so far, followed by Abbey [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Nick Cave’s new novel, The Death of Bunny Munroe, is being released as an audiobook this week. Not so interesting as news in itself, but it’s being released via Apple’s app store.
Clearly no ordinary audio book. As well as a soundtrack composed by Mr. Cave and his fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis, the audio has [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 19 August 2009
We at Bowers & Wilkins in the London office have a certain love affair with the retail institution that is Fopp. It may have disappeared from many city centres throughout the UK, but the central London store remains, along with a few select others.
They often sell remastered CD editions at remarkably good prices, but what have [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 23 April 2009
Summer’s almost here and it’s time to get the rusty BBQ out of the shed. But every outdoor party needs music which is where B&W weather-proof monitors come in handy.
We’ll be running a competition to win a pair of weather-proof WM2’s next month so stay tuned.
In the meantime, B&W owner Ben listens to music [...]
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Posted on Monday, 30 March 2009
“Once you start listening to Spiro and how it’s composed you hear elements of systems music, people like Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, dance music and all sorts of musical influences are woven into this very contemporary music.”
So said Peter Gabriel about this month’s album. Some of our albums are more challenging than others but there [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 18 February 2009
We’ve been asking B&W Music Club artists and Fellows for 10 tracks that really stand out in terms of the way they’ve been recorded.Here’s a list from current B&W Music Club Artists Portico Quartet’s Jack Wyllie:(spot the obvious mistake..)
1 This must be the place (naïve melody) - Talking heads.A bit of classic pop. A [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 10 January 2009
Having the Jaguar on the stand at CES in Las Vegas is a proving to be a great attention grabber. This car is absolutely gorgeous and really draws a crowd. Once inside, the 525-watt Bowers & Wilkins Surround Sound system really impresses even the most advanced audiophile.
Bowers & Wilkins has an exclusive partnership with Jaguar [...]
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Posted on Friday, 9 January 2009
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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