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 [...]
Posted by Lara on Friday, 21 November 2008 Comments (0)
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 [...]
Posted by Lara on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Comments (1)
I’m in Newcastle-on-Tyne right now, in the final stage of rehearsals for my Skellig opera which premieres here at the Sage Gateshead next Monday and runs from November 24-29.
Newcastle is a lot smaller than Boston, where I live, but it has a familiar feel of an East-West running river that empties into the ocean with [...]
Posted by Bowers and Wilkins on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Comments (0)
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 [...]
Posted by Lara on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 Comments (0)
We were looking for a classical artist to be represented in our B&W Music Club and a senior engineer at Abbey Road suggested young pianist Benjamin Grosvenor.Having won the Keyboard Final of the BBC young Musician of the Year in 2004 age eleven, Benjamin has been growing steadily in stature with two documentaries and a [...]
Posted by Bowers and Wilkins on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 Comments (0)
Computer games were once just for kids; many of those kids are in their 30s and 40s now, and many of them are still playing games. But as we get older, we get more demanding, and not just for the complexity and realism in the game play, but the way a game looks and feels, [...]
Posted by Lara on Monday, 17 November 2008 Comments (0)
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 [...]
Posted by Lara on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 Comments (0)
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 about listening to music and in doing so let them [...]
Posted by Lara on Monday, 10 November 2008 Comments (0)
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 [...]
Posted by Lara on Thursday, 6 November 2008 Comments (0)
Tod Machover: cutting edge composer, a Professor of Music and Media at MIT’s renowned Media Lab and a Fellow of B&W’s Society of Sound. Tod is in the UK in November for two exciting events: a lecture in London on the Future of Music and the premier of his new opera Skellig at The Sage [...]
Posted by Bowers and Wilkins on Tuesday, 4 November 2008 Comments (0)
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