Tools of the trade – laser measurements
With loudspeakers, virtually every part of the structure vibrates and adds to the overall sound. Even the parts you want to vibrate – the driver diaphragms – don’t behave as… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 4 Feb 2013
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider, Tools of the Trade
Tags: Kipple Distortion Apparatus, laser holography, measuring velocity, scanning doppler velocimeter, speaker design, speckle interferometry
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
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
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
Bowers & Wilkins video factory tour: final assembly
In the fifth of our exclusive series of video tours around the Bowers & Wilkins UK factory, we look at the amazing amount of effort that goes into finishing our… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 21 Nov 2011
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: 800 series, audiophile, bowers & wilkins, factory tour, final assembly, hifi speakers
Bowers & Wilkins video factory tour: 800 Series Diamond polishing
In the fourth of our exclusive series of video tours around the Bowers & Wilkins UK factory, we look at the amazing amount of effort that goes into finishing our… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 21 Sep 2011
Categories: Hi-fi speakers, Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: 800 Diamond Series, audiophile, bowers & wilkins, factory tour, hi-fi speakers
Classic Album Sundays’ Colleen Murphy listens to The Great Curve
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