
Festival No. 6: A Sound System debut
Sound travels. And Sound System will reach another destination this September, finding itself for the first time ever in the stunning village of Portmeirion in North Wales for a festival… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 31 Aug 2017
Categories: News, Music, Sound System
Tags: #SoundSystem17, Festival No. 6, Sound System

Looking back over WOMAD 2016
The June release on Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound is a chance to revisit highlights from the Bowers & Wilkins Sound System stage at last year’s WOMAD Festival. The… Read more
Posted on: Tuesday, 27 Jun 2017
Categories: Music, Live music, Sound System
Tags: Live music, Sound System, WOMAD

Primavera Sound 2017 Playlist Special
Primavera Sound curator DJ Fra picks 20 tracks from artists spinning the decks of the Bowers & Wilkins Sound System stage at this year’s festival. Selecting artists to play at… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 26 May 2017
Categories: Events, Sound System

Bowers & Wilkins Sound System returns
On a Monday evening in East London, a small pub reverberated from the wizardry of a world-class DJ – and a legendary sound system. In an exclusive preview event, and… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 22 May 2017
Categories: News, Music, Events and shows, Sound System
Tags: Hivern Discs, John Talabot, Primavera Sound, Sound System

800 Series Diamond and new DB1D subwoofers shine at Bristol Sound & Vision 2017
Bowers & Wilkins was once again one of the must-see rooms at the Bristol Sound & Vision Hi-Fi show with a demonstration featuring the awesome 800 D3 loudspeakers, an 800… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 1 Mar 2017
Categories: News, Events and shows, Hi-fi speakers, New products, Sound System
Tags: 800 D3, 800 series diamond, 802 D3, Bristol Sound & Vision, DB Series subwoofers, DB1D, Rotel RAP-1580, Rotel RB-1590

How the Model 801 changed music recording
Bowers & Wilkins is 50 years old in 2016. As part of the celebrations of these five decades in the world of high-performance audio, we are running a series of… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 4 Nov 2016
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Hi-fi speakers, Listen and you'll see, Sound System
Tags: 50th anniversary, 800 D3, 800 series diamond, 801

Sound System at WOMAD 2016 review
As always, this year’s WOMAD featured an impressively broad line-up. Few festivals can boast 90 artists from 49 countries, and in an increasingly fractious world, gatherings of this kind are… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 5 Aug 2016
Categories: Events, Live music, Sound System, The future of sound
Tags: A Guy Called Gerald, Akala, Black Devil Disco Club, Cats Eyes, Dawn Penn, François K, Gwilym Gold, Hollie Stephenson, Jah Shaka, Native Dancer, Nick Luscombe and Steve Hellier, Optima, Paddy Steer, Sound System, Sound System 2016, Stuart McCallum, The Anchoress, The Invisible, Vessel and Immix Ensemble present ‘Transition’, WOMAD

Sound System 2016: Cats Eyes
As the world’s finest Sound System continues our mission to bring true sound to festival-goers, some of the many DJs and musicians who’ve experienced it to talk to us about… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 21 Jul 2016
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Events, Live music, Sound System, The future of sound
Tags: Cats Eyes, Primavera Sound, Sound System, Sound System 2016, WOMAD

Sound System 2016: Jas Shaw, Simian Mobile Disco
As the world’s finest Sound System continues our mission to bring true sound to festival-goers, we asked some of the many DJs and musicians who’ve experienced it to tell us… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 14 Jul 2016
Categories: Discussing sound quality, Events, Live music, Sound System, The future of sound
Tags: Jas Shaw, Primavera Sound, Simian Mobile Disco, Sound System, Sound System 2016, WOMAD
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