Bowers & Wilkins P5 headphones and Soundfields
Soundfields is a unique electronic musical exploration. Collaborating with musician and composer, Chris Clark, Blast Theory have developed an interactive application that traces your movement. Armed with Bowers & Wilkins… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 2 Jun 2011
Categories: Events, Headphones
Tags: Aldeburgh Music, P5 headphones, sound art, Soundfields
Debate: Does pop music need to be well recorded?
Welcome to the first in a new series of debates. Each month we’ll ask two experts to argue a thorny sound-related topic. We hope you enjoy the discussion, and we’d… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 12 May 2011
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Music, Sound debate
Tags: audiophile, debate, pop music, Recording, Sound quality
Bowers & Wilkins factory video tour: cabinet manufacturing
In the first of a series of video tours around the Bowers & Wilkins UK factory, we take a look at 800 Series Diamond cabinet manufacturing. These exclusive videos provide… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Categories: Hi-fi speakers, Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: 800 Diamond Series, audiophile hi-fi speakers, bowers & wilkins, factory tour
John Bowers – a recorded tribute
This wonderful recording comes from the late 1980s. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, it is a tribute to John Bowers by his close friend the BBC presenter Peter King. John… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 24 Mar 2011
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: audiophile, Bowers & Wilkins speakers, DM6 speaker, John Bowers, Peter King
Unique TEDx event with Society of Sound’s Tod Machover
Part of the inspirational Tedx event at Aldeburgh Music, Spheres & Splinters was a unique collaboration between MIT legend and Society of Sound Fellow Tod Machover, cellist Peter Gregson… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 16 Mar 2011
Categories: Events, Sound Lab, The future of sound
Tags: Aldeburgh Music, future of music, MIT, Peter Gregson, TEDx, Tod Machover
Art meets science in 800 Series Diamond
You won’t find many straight lines in nature. For good reason: continuous, curving surfaces create stronger structures with the same amount of material. In all the models in the 800… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 21 Feb 2011
Categories: Hi-fi speakers, Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: 800 series diamond, B&W, bowers & wilkins, Cabinet making, cabinet meking video, Speakers, technology
Bowers & Wilkins looks into the future with the Jaguar C-X75
The story behind the Bowers & Wilkins audio system in the Jaguar C-X75 concept car The C-X75 concept is both a celebration of 75 years of iconic Jaguar design and… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 10 Feb 2011
Categories: Car audio, Sound Lab, The future of sound
Tags: Automotive, B&W, Bowers & Wilkins car audio, Diamond tweeters, DSP, Jaguar, Jaguar C-X75 audio system, Jaguar C-X75 concept car, Micromesh technology
Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus speaker deconstructed in images
Nautilus™ emerged from Bowers & Wilkins’ University of Sound R&D facility after five years’ painstaking development. Briefed to stop at nothing in the quest for a perfect loudspeaker, our engineers… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 16 Sep 2010
Categories: Hi-fi speakers, Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: audiophile, bowers & wilkins loud speakers, high end speakers, John Bowers, nautilus, Steyning R&D
The future of surround sound from MIT
The Opera of the Future group is an MIT Media Lab Research Group led by Society of Sound Fellow Tod Machover. It explores concepts and techniques to help advance the… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Categories: Sound Lab, The future of sound
Tags: ambisonics, future of surround sound, Home theatre, MIT, opera of the future, Tod Machover
Classic Album Sundays’ Colleen Murphy listens to The Great Curve
Rafe says: Can we not get these in Vancouver, B.C.?... 1 day 7 hours ago View commentClassic Album Sundays’ Colleen Murphy listens to New Order’s Age of Consent
Rafe says: Agreed. A classic for... 2 days 7 hours ago View comment