Why form follows function at Bowers & Wilkins
Bowers & Wilkins has long been an advocate of innovative design, and we have a long and very successful working relationship with two renowned British designers in Kenneth Grange and… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 22 Aug 2011
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: curved cabinets, DM6, form follows function, head units, hi-fi speakers, Kenneth Grange, Kevlar, micro-porous tweeter, Morten Warren, Nautilus speakers, tweeter on top, Zeppelin iPod speaker
Bowers & Wilkins factory video tour: paint spraying
In the third of our exclusive series of video tours around the Bowers & Wilkins UK factory, we look at the paint spraying section, in particular how we spray the… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 4 Aug 2011
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: 800 Diamond Series, audiophile, bowers & wilkins, factory tour, hi-fi speakers
Exclusive interview with iconic product designer Kenneth Grange
Leading product designer Kenneth Grange is currently being celebrated in a retrospective at London’s Design Museum. Watch this exclusive video interview of Kenneth explaining what inspired him to design loud… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 25 Jul 2011
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: Design classic, Design Museum, Kenneth Grange, loud speaker design, Pentagram, Signature Diamond
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
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 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
Day in the Life of a Development Engineer – David Blakeman
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… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 22 Dec 2008
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: bowers & wilkins, Development engineer, Loud speakers, Speakers
Acoustic Holography – Dr Gary Geaves (Head of Research & Development)
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… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 5 Dec 2008
Categories: Sound Lab, The insider
Tags: acoustic holography, audiophile, Bowers & Wilkins R&D, Speakers, Steyning R&D
Classic Album Sundays’ Colleen Murphy listens to The Great Curve
Rafe says: Can we not get these in Vancouver, B.C.?... 2 days 19 hours ago View commentClassic Album Sundays’ Colleen Murphy listens to New Order’s Age of Consent
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