Why buy a soundbar? – The science of psychoacoustics
Bowers & Wilkins launched Panorama 2 this week and we asked Senior Product Manager Mike Gough to explain how soundbars work. There is no doubt that discrete speaker systems, be… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 3 Oct 2012
Categories: Home theatre, Speakers, Tools of the Trade
Tags: 5.1 surround sound, home cinema, Home theatre, panorama, psycho acoustics, soundbar, surround sound
Bowers & Wilkins at the Royal Opera House as part of Deloitte Ignite Africa Weekend
Deloitte Ignite returned for its fifth year with a free contemporary arts festival curated by internationally renowned artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. In typically eclectic fashion, Shonibare pulled together filmmakers, musicians,… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 10 Sep 2012
Categories: Events, Headphones
Tags: African art, Deloitte Ignite, P5 headphones, Royal Opera House, sound art, traditional African instruments, Victor Gama, Yinka Shonibare
Tools of the trade – frequency response measurements – part 2
Senior Product Manager Mike Gough continues to discuss the importance of measuring frequency response and the accuracy of the results. Impulse response Whereas the concept of the swept sine wave… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 15 Aug 2012
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider, Tools of the Trade
Tags: acoustic engineers, impulse response, loud speaker reproduction, measuring frequency response, senior product manager
Tools of the trade – frequency response measurements.
In a previous article, I looked at the construction of anechoic chambers and their relevance to measuring the frequency response and various distortions of speakers. I’m now going to compare… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 28 Jun 2012
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider, Tools of the Trade
Tags: acoustic engineers, Anechoic chamber, frequency oscillator, frequency response measurements, hi-fi, sine wave
Tools of the trade – the anechoic chamber
In the first of a new series of posts, Senior Product Manager, Mike Gough, looks at some of the tools used by the professional speaker designer including their limitations and… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 19 Apr 2012
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider, Tools of the Trade
Tags: 800 series, Anechoic chamber, Building Research Establishment, hi-fi testing rooms, royal albert hall, Steyning R&D facility
Turn it up! Dynamic Range Day – March 16th
Dynamic Range Day is back on the 16th March. As well as various meet-ups and campaigns, they have some fascinatimg research on whether listeners really prefer loud music and are… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 15 Mar 2012
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Music, Sound debate
Tags: compression, Dynamic Range Day 2012, Justin Bieber, loudness wars, metallica
Behind the scenes of the 800 Diamond series speaker film
Last Christmas we set out to film the extraordinary and time-consuming process of creating an 800 Series Diamond speaker. It took three long days of shooting to make sure every… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012
Categories: Hi-fi speakers, Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: 800 series Diamond speakers, audiophile loud speakers, hi-fi speakers
Film: The making of an 800 Series Diamond speaker
This is the first time the extraordinary and time-consuming process of creating an 800 Series Diamond speaker has been captured on film in its entirety. From the formation of the… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 19 Jan 2012
Categories: Hi-fi speakers, Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: 800 series Diamond speakers, audiophile loud speakers, British craftmanship, Nautilus speakers, Steyning Research facility
Lovely film of Plasticity installation at British Film Institute
In November, our speakers were integral to an interactive audio-visual installation, ‘Plasticity’ for the 2011 onedotzero ‘Adventures in Motion’ festival at the BFI Southbank, London. Here the sound artists describe… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 12 Jan 2012
Categories: Custom Installation, Events, Sound Lab
Tags: Adventures in motions, audio-visual installations, BFI, custom installation speakers, Jane Grant, John Matthias, Kin Design, Nick Ryan, onedotzero, Southbank, The Fragmented Orchestra
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