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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This month’s album, In Session, is a collaboration between the extraordinary Mauritanian musician Daby Touré and old-school bluesman Skip McDonald. Clearly Music Club members are very discerning as we’ve had a number of people asking whether we would supply the music as 24 bit FLAC files.

We’re always happy to provide music at the highest [...]

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It’s the time of year where journalists and bloggers get all retrospective and reflect on a year in music. As a humble B&W employee, with a vested interested in music that all sounds good, I have compiled a list of ten tracks that sound great to me personally, and I would hope to anyone with [...]

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I blogged earlier about the Deep Listening roundtable conference in New York. You can now watch it here.Chaired by Greg Calbi, the mastering engineer at legendary Sterling Sound, NY whose 70’s output alone includes classic albums by Springsteen (Born to Run), Lennon (Walls and Bridges) and Bowie (Young Americans) not to mention later work [...]

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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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We were very lucky to be able to attend an invitation-only evening at Real World Studios last week along with some B&W Music Club members who had won invites.After drinks in the wooden studio, Peter Gabriel introduced the extraordinary West Coast psychedelic/Cambodian pop hybrid that is Dengue Fever in the glass fronted large studio.
The sound [...]

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We’ve probably all experienced the current trend among younger music lovers to play their favourite tunes out loud for the world, or at least the rest of the bus, to share their enjoyment. As this is normally from the speakers of a mobile phone, its not the best sonic experience, even if you do approve [...]

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Christmas is almost upon us, and as usual we’re all planning our festive shopping, or out buying things on a whim. In order to get people as excited about the Zeppelin as we are, we’re promoting our multi-award winning iPod speaker system in numerous John Lewis stores in the UK allowing people to have a [...]

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