I knew the Bowers & Wilkins name long before I became an audiophile. To my eyes, the brand rubbed shoulders with the likes of TAG, BMW, Bang & Olufsen and Ortofon, to name but a few. I knew it to be an unalloyed luxury brand that specialised in audio.As...
The world of one box speakers is enormously competitive at the moment. Respected Hi-Fi brands are spending serious time and money on developing them and their performance is a world away from what could be expected even a few years ago. The Wedge...
Despite the fact that the Mu-so 2 has a greater array of embedded playback options and doesn't require a third-party subscription to reap the benefits of locally-stored music, the B&W Formation Wedge offers the kind of detailed, balanced, cohesive sound...
Great design paired with fantastic sound makes the Bowers & Wilkins Formation Wedge one of the best compelling single-speaker solution that I've ever heard. Perhaps more importantly, its deft mix of audiophile sound and innovative form factor is exactly...
It will divide people with its looks, and it will exclude some people with its price, but the Formation Wedge is Bowers & Wilkins doing what it does best, delivering bold looks and bigger sound.These are the best speakers of...
Speakers have seen a massive overhaul in the last ten years, from being something that was only inside your living room to be in almost every room of the house. Whether its portable, networked or 24-bit compatible, there are speakers everywhere you look...
The £3,500 Duo is the most traditional-looking speaker in the series, and adopts the same 25mm carbon dome tweeter-on-top technology and 165mm mid/bass Continuum cone drive unit found in the company's passive speaker lineup. Matching support stands are...
I think that Bowers & Wilkins has a winner with their Formation suite of products. They are all well-designed and appear to be of high-quality construction, and a high-end whole-home wireless system will appeal to many.Naturally, it is the company's own...
Much like the Duo, the Wedge formed a favourable impression with its performance. Again, it will be interesting to see how the Wedge performs beyond the playlist that B&W offered, but the speaker sounded great and filled a room with ease.So far, the...
Bowers & Wilkins eilt inzwischen ein gewisser Ruf voraus. Der nämlich, außergewöhnlich guten Klang mit außergewöhnlich designten Geräten zu liefern. Entsprechend hoch ist die Fallhöhe mit jedem neuen Gerät. Die Klangqualität muss unangreifbar sein. Das...
Falls es noch Zweifel an der Berechtigung von drahtlos vernetzten Multiroom-Lautsprechern im Luxus-Segment gegeben hat, räumt Bowers & Wilkins diese nun aus. Dem Formation Wedge sieht man sein großes Potenzial direkt auf den ersten Blick an. Das...
Mögen andere vergleichbare Lösungen in Sachen ausgedehntes Stereopanorama, Bassgewalt oder Pegelfestigkeit noch ein bisserl mehr mit ihren Pfunden wuchern: Der Bowers & Wilkins Wedge begeistert mit seinem – gerade in Anbetracht eines solchen...
Der drahtlose Zweiwege-Highend-Speaker liefert im Duett nicht nur ein wundervolles Klangbild, sondern auch eine raumfüllende Stereo-Kulisse für hohe Ansprüche zum hohen Preis. Thomas...
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