B&W Speakers - Luxury Home Theatre and Surround Sound

Now recognised as a design classic, the original Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus™ is not just our flagship product, but the very pinnacle of technological innovation to which all others must aspire. It is the result of a groundbreaking, five year research and development programme to achieve, as near as possible, the perfect loudspeaker. The Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus is recognised worldwide as an outstanding loudspeaker which continues to shape the direction of the audio industry to this day. Much sought after by cognoscenti, it has been unashamedly designed with the serious audiophile in mind, not only because of its size and shape but also because of its active design – the crossover network is positioned between the pre and power amplifiers.

One material sums up Bowers & Wilkins' quest for perfection in sound reproduction more than any other. Diamond. It’s the ultimate tweeter material – and the magic ingredient in our flagship 800 Series Diamond. It’s part of the reason why 800 Series speakers have become legendary among professional recording studios and serious sound enthusiasts alike. And now, for the first time, you can hear the incredible precision and clarity of diamond in every speaker in the range. The very best just got even better. And perfection just got even closer.

With a break-up frequency of 30kHz, our aluminium dome tweeters already push sound quality well above the upper limits of the audible range. But inspired by what we’ve learned about diamond, we wanted to see if we could do even better for the PM1. The result is an entirely new type of tweeter dome. By bracing the dome with a ring of filament-wound carbon fibre, we’ve raised the break-up frequency of aluminium to 40kHz.

By using our most refined drive unit technologies, developed for reference-standard speakers such as the 800 Series Diamond, we've been able to hone the speaker down to its purest essentials. The CM Series uses minimalist crossovers of remarkable simplicity and quality, so what you hear is that much closer to the sound of the original recording. In its functional perfection and understated elegance, it's nothing less than a masterpiece. Pure and simple.

In all our 600 Series midrange/bass units the distinctive yellow woven Kevlar® cone snuffs out the kind of concentric standing waves that build up in standard, homogenous cones, while a light, airy ‘open’ chassis cuts down echo from behind the cone. But, to the midrange of the three-way 683 speaker, we’ve been able to add something even more special. We call it ‘fixed suspension transducer’ or FST™ for short. It sounds complex, but it’s not. It’s simple, and it sounds wonderful, but until now it has only been seen in Bowers & Wilkins audiophile ranges, such as the 800 Series Diamond.

While most subwoofers make do with just the one main driver, the DB1 has two, mounted back-to-back. It’s a pioneering design that brings amazing benefits to low frequency sound – and not just in terms of reduced vibration brought about by better mechanical balance. With two 12” long-throw drivers, the speaker generates higher sound levels and less distortion than a single 15” driver – and all within a relatively compact cabinet.

For us, a movie is only great if it adds up to more than the sum of its parts. The parts have to be good - an original storyline, great dialogue, flesh-and-blood characters bold directing - but to create movie magic they have to be brought together in a way that people will warm to and want to see over and over again. We felt we should keep this in mind when we designed the Bowers & Wilkins M-1. Small it may be, but the M-1 is brimming with innovative acoustic engineering. From the inside out, it has been conceived as a unified system delivering superlative sound, looks and ease of use. Starting on a blank sheet of paper, its design evolved in a totally integrated way, from the tube-loaded tweeter and woven bass to driver cone to the two-piece cabinet and concealed cabling.

Good things don’t always come in big packages. Take your TV for instance. For years, the television has been getting slimmer, flatter, more streamlined while producing a picture quality that’s better than ever before. Sound is a different story. To experience cinema-like sound at home, you need to buy several bulky speakers, taking up space in different positions in the room. That is, until now. Panorama adds a whole new dimension to home entertainment, bringing truly immersive surround sound to your TV from a single, discreet speaker. Movies, music and games come to life in a way you never thought possible. You won’t believe what a big difference a small box can make.

Designed with a minimalist sensibility, Bowers & Wilkins’ Flat Panel Monitors posses a poise and elegance all too rare in high-end home theatre and hi-fi components. Just as plasma and LCD TV screens offer high-resolution, distortion-free images from an ultra-slimline frame, FPMs deliver superlative sound with minimal interference to the room’s decor and traffic. Appropriately shallow and with a choice of heights to match popular flat screen dimensions, their visual and physical presence has been reduced to the bare minimum. The listening experience, however, has lost nothing.

Get closer to your favourite music wherever you are with P5, the noise-isolating headphones from the makers of the Zeppelin™ iPod® speaker. Drawing on 45 years of Bowers & Wilkins hi-fi innovation and expertise, P5 brings you remarkably natural and highly detailed sound on the move, and a luxuriously comfortable fit that makes longer listening sessions a pleasure. Think of it as your own personal concert – to go

For some people, the mere sight of a speaker, no matter how well designed, is enough to cause palpitations. It’s for precisely this clientele that we have pursued the notion of custom installation loudspeakers, which can be carefully hidden into walls or ceilings and, where necessary, disguised to be as hard-to- detect as possible. Four separate ranges comprise Bowers & Wilkins Custom Installation. CI 700 offers the best sounding installation speakers we've ever produced. CI 600 sound amazing, too, but are more affordable, while the Classic series features a host of proven classics. The Weatherproof range allows you to take your music outdoors, into the sauna, or even onto the sea.

If you’re serious about home cinema, you’ll need a seriously good cinema sound system. It doesn’t get any better than Custom Theatre from Bowers & Wilkins. Drawing from our most advanced technologies, the Custom Theatre ranges are designed with one aim in mind: to lift you out of your seat and throw you into the heart of the action. Both the CT 800 and CT 700 ranges deliver movie sound like you've only heard in your wildest dreams. It’s the authentic private cinema experience in your own home. Popcorn not included.

Zeppelin is an iPod docking station that fills a room with crisp, deep, lifelike stereo sound, and delivers musical detail that you won’t believe your iPod is capable of. That’s because the two have so much in common: blissfully simple design and world-leading technologies that let you get the most out of your music. Zeppelin is an integrated iPod docking station from the people who manufacture the speakers that much of the music on your iPod will have been made using. Bowers & Wilkins creates technologies and systems that world-leading studios depend on and that find their way into the Zeppelin, its first iPod speaker.This is the iPod docking station your music has been waiting for!

We’ve done it again. It wasn't long ago that Zeppelin revolutionised the way we listen to our iPods, sweeping away the competition and scooping just about every award going for its incredible sound and sleek looks. And now it’s back. Only this time, it’s smaller. With Zeppelin Mini, you get everything you love about Zeppelin – advanced acoustic technology, intelligent design, elegant connectivity – in a streamlined, compact sound dock package that’s perfect for desktops and bedside tables. Because even when your space is limited, it doesn’t mean your sound has to be.

MM-1s aren’t like other computer speakers. They’re true hi-fi speakers, shrunk to fit on your desktop. So they don’t just look great – they sound amazing, transforming your computer into a superb hi-fi stereo sound system. But then you’d expect nothing less from the makers of the award-winning Zeppelin iPod speaker, not to mention some of the most advanced studio speakers in the world.