Bowers & Wilkins

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: Classé and B&W spark synergy

July 2, 2017

Almost every time I go to a hifi show there they are. Like peas, and carrots: Classé and Bowers & Wilkins. Now, there’s a reason this pairing has been going on so long, and it’s because they work so well together. It was no [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: High Fives on Day Two

June 25, 2017

Smiles greeted me from a number of manufacturer representatives as I headed into HiFi Centre for the second, and final day of the inaugural Vancouver Audio Festival. Seems those tasked with room demos had been making “genuine, and positive [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: What’s coming up

June 19, 2017

Vancouver’s HiFi Centre is throwing open it’s doors this coming weekend (June 24, 25, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 433 Carrall Street, Vancouver) to help fill the gap left by the departure of the Chester Group, and it’s [...]

Classé announces Sigma SSP MkII preamp: Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and upgraded HDMI

February 8, 2017

Canadian amplification legend Classé has announced some serious upgrades to the multi-talented eight-channel surround preamplifier Sigma SSP, now in MK II guise. I’ve not heard any of Classé’s home-theatre products, but I’m a big [...]

Best of 2016 and Product of the Year

December 24, 2016

So here we are again. Somehow, the year has turned, we’re all facing yet another New Year, and yet no one is running through the streets screaming about “the end of meaning”, “the inexorable march toward extinction”, or [...]

Audio Advice: “Music Matters” in Charlotte, NC — Part 2

December 2, 2016

by Eric Franklin Shook From The Bottom To The Top Poverty in the American South has many names, one of them being Laurinburg. It’s a small town in North Carolina, just north of it’s southern border. Coincidentally that is where Leon [...]

RMAF 2015: To the MOON with Simaudio, AudioQuest, Bowers and Wilkins

November 6, 2015

I must have been 30 when I first ran across B&W’s 800 Series loudspeakers. It was at a beach house, of all things. A rental. My new father-in-law had invited all the kids/spouses/grand-kids to the Outer Banks. The house was this oceanfront [...]

Audio360.org Digs the Woo Audio WA7 Fireflies

January 20, 2014

A syndicated article from Audio360.org by amos barnett, warren chi, michael liang, kevin venable & ethan wolf Remember your first kiss, a new puppy wagging its tail at you, the opening notes of your favorite song, the slightly bitter yet sweet [...]