Hey I'm JR, training manager here at Crutchfield and I'm pretty excited to
talk to you today about Bowers & Wilkins speakers now available at Crutchfield
we're pretty excited to be carrying a pretty full assortment of Bowers &
Wilkins speakers for just about every room in your house for just about every
way you want to listen to music and they of course sound amazing Bowers &
Wilkins has been around since around 1966 when John Bower started building
loudspeakers in his electronics shop and they quickly became iconic speakers
known for incredible imaging clarity and sound quality they are so good that ever
since about 1988 Abbey Road has been exclusively using Bowers & Wilkins
speakers to mix and master whatever they are recording over there at Abbey Road
so you know they're good. John Bowers' philosophy for designing speakers has
always been that the best loudspeakers isn't the one that gives the most it's
the one that loses the least, meaning the speaker's job is to bring as much of the
original recording as possible to your ears
losing the least amount of fidelity and that's the goal
Crutchfield has been carrying Bowers & Wilkins headphones for a number of years
now but we're pretty excited to add a whole lot of speakers to the mix as well
let's start at the top of what Crutchfield will be offering from Bowers
& Wilkins and that would be the 700 series there's three floor standing
models in three bookshelf models and the best bookshelf and the best floor
standing do use the carbon dome tweeters mounted in an acoustically decoupled
aluminum cast housing on top for incredible separation and clarity and
imaging that tweeter is even capable of going all the way up to 47 kilohertz all
the speakers in the 700 series also use the continuum cone mid-range which comes
down from the Bowers & Wilkins diamond 800 series and in the floor standing
models they also use an aerofoil profile base cone for deep rich bass we also
carry the 600 series speakers from Bowers & Wilkins including the floor
standing model, two bookshelves and a center channel there's even three
different subwoofers as part of the 600 series
to choose from there's a couple pretty cool technologies that trickle down from
Bowers & Wilkins top-of-the-line stuff down into the 600 series including the
decoupled double dome tweeters and the continuum cone mid-range Bowers &
Wilkins also now offers the Formation Suite of wireless audio products so if
it's convenience and wireless audio you're looking for with Bowers & Wilkins
sound and clarity you can now do that for example you could start with the
Formation Duo this is a high powered set of wireless bookshelf speakers that
includes lots of great Bowers & Wilkins favorites like the acoustically
decoupled tweeter on top for incredible imaging and clarity the super sweet
sounding continuum cone mid-range as well as that iconic Bowers & Wilkins
look the Duos of course sound amazing all by themselves however if you're
looking for a little bit more bass you can pair them with the Formation Bass
it's a wireless subwoofer that pairs of course really well with the duo's giving
you big 2.1 channel sound if you're looking for a single speaker solution
you could get the Formation Wedge now I actually had the benefit of taking the
Formation Wedge home with me over the weekend I brought it back this morning
very reluctantly because I went home to listen to it and I found myself
listening to music for about two hours I couldn't stop you know when you put on a
good set of headphones and you start to hear detail and subtleties and the music
that you don't really hear on most speakers in a room I was getting that
from the formation wedge last night that's why I couldn't stop listening to
music so it's incredibly powerful full deep bass decoupled dome tweeters gives
you incredible stereo imaging that just blasted sound all the way around my room
so really really impressed with the Formation Wedge it includes of course
the Formation wireless technology I'll talk more about that here in a second
the Formation Bar is a sound bar that has nine speakers set up in a three
channel arrangement each channel has a tweeter
and two mid ranges giving you wide open spacious surround sound
all three tweeters are double dome tweeters and the mid ranges are will
glass fiber cone mid-range and midbass you are going to want to pair a
subwoofer with this of course you would use the formation base to do that
there's an optical digital input so you can run audio down from your optical
output on your TV and if your TV outputs Dolby Digital this does have a Dolby
Digital decoder to give you good accurate surround sound let's talk about
what makes the formation suite of wireless products work so well and
Bowers & Wilkins has developed its patented technology that really makes it
perform in a superior way as a wireless music system including perfect speakers
synchronization so if you have multiple formation products they are going to
sync together so there won't be any delay as you walk from room to room they
create a robust mesh network so each product talks to each other creating a
larger mesh network that works really well and of course they're capable of
dealing with some nice high-res files all the way up to 96 24-bit resolution
you can use airplay to you can use Spotify connect you can even use
Bluetooth if you want to and the formation products are roon ready so if
you're looking to enhance your music listening experience with some metadata
and some cool visuals on your computer it's all compatible with that as well
lastly there's the Formation Audio which has all of that technology in one little
box that you would use to connect to your existing hifi system so if you can
already have a really nice amplifier some really nice speakers and you just
want to add this as another zone as part of your formation suite of wireless
music you can use the formation audio to do that Bowers & Wilkins seems very
committed to being able to play music anywhere in your room and if you're
looking for speakers that you don't want to see what you do want to hear you've
got a wide variety of in wall and in-ceiling speakers
they've even got two separate models of in wall or in ceiling subwoofers to
choose from so if you want your speakers to disappear and still sound amazing
Bowers & Wilkins has you covered man we're very excited to be carrying Bowers
& Wilkins and this full line of stuff so many things to choose from and I can
tell you from experience they sound amazing so if you have any questions on
Bowers & Wilkins if you want to talk to an adviser about it
give us a call chat with us online send us an email we're here to help you get
the right speakers for you