4th June, Vienna, Austria: In its sixtieth 12 months, famend British audio model, Bowers & Wilkins is proud to announce its all-new flagship 800 Collection Diamond vary. Representing the fifth technology of 800 Collection to make use of the world-renowned Diamond Dome tweeter, the brand new D5 vary introduces a bunch of recent applied sciences and design refinements to additional assert its standing because the world’s most revered vary of high-end loudspeakers.
60 years within the making, the brand new 800 Collection Diamond vary is born of a long time of engineering excellence and crafted by relentless experimentation and refinement. From its iconic design – the place science shapes artwork – to the newest evolutions of our most superior audio applied sciences, that is essentially the most superior loudspeaker vary we’ve ever made and the final word embodiment of John Bowers’ True Sound philosophy. Designed like all Bowers & Wilkins loudspeakers to ship a flawlessly correct rendering of the unique recording, the brand new D5 vary will enchantment equally to discerning hi-fi lovers and to devoted music business professionals searching for essentially the most life like sound copy potential.
The brand new 800 Collection Diamond vary options seven fashions, starting with the two-way 805 D5 stand-mount speaker. That’s joined by a sequence of three-way floorstanding fashions, together with the 804 D5, 803 D5, 802 D5 and essentially the most revered mannequin of all, the 801 D5. For dwelling theatre use, the HTM81 D5 and HTM82 D5 present a pair of high-performance centre channel audio system to finish the vary.
An icon, refined.
The newest technology of 800 Collection Diamond is the final word expression of our unrelenting pursuit of the proper loudspeaker.
800 Collection Diamond fuses acoustic and mechanical excellence with elegant and significant design. Its masterful detailing and splendid finishes are achieved by craftsmanship of the best calibre. In a design the place every part exists for a purpose, it’s the small print that matter.
Throughout the vary, 800 Collection Diamond adopts an extremely luxurious and lustrous aesthetic. Its optimised design detailing – from a brand new prime plate, backbone and plinth to revised drive unit pods, tweeter physique, trim rings and grilles – is complemented by all-new finishes, made much more placing by upgraded, extra sturdy paint. As normal, each 800 Collection Diamond loudspeaker is refined by our collective dedication to make a greater product and painstakingly crafted by our group in Worthing, UK. The result’s an elevated normal of end that befits our flagship loudspeakers.
All the finishes within the new vary have been revised from the outgoing D4 line up. An all-new Darkish Walnut end, impressed by the restricted manufacturing 801 Abbey Highway Restricted Version, replaces the Satin Rosenut within the D5 portfolio. With complementary darkish metallic detailing and black Leather-based by Connolly trim, it makes a brand new assertion in thought-about, fashionable luxurious. Additionally becoming a member of the line-up is a Stealth Black end, complemented
by darkish metallic detailing providing a extra constant aesthetic throughout the entire darkish surfaces and supplies.
As well as, Heat White joins the vary, developed from the earlier technology of white loudspeaker with hotter and extra fashionable tones imbued with champagne-coloured detailing. The portfolio is accomplished with the brand new Gentle Walnut end, which additionally adopts the champagne-coloured metallic detailing mixed with a complementary painted Turbine Head meeting. Black and White end DB Collection subwoofers undertake the brand new Stealth Black and Heat White finishes to higher match their loudspeaker siblings.
Along with the brand new finishes, the brand new D5 vary advantages from even tighter manufacturing tolerances designed to enhance on an already exalted degree of perceived high quality. Seen transitions between surfaces have been minimised, whereas fixings have been hidden and panel gaps have been enormously lowered, making a extra seamless and premium end. Even the paint high quality and course of have been improved, delivering a fair richer and extra lustrous end, particularly on the brand new Stealth Black cupboards.
New and developed applied sciences
Complementing the numerous design and end upgrades are an intensive variety of acoustic, mechanical, and electrical enhancements geared toward taking the already stellar efficiency of the outgoing 800 Collection Diamond vary to all-new heights. Wherever potential, important performance-enhancing componentry from
the 800 Collection Signature loudspeakers has been cascaded to the brand new D5 vary, leading to extra openness, decrease distortion, heightened decision and superior dynamics. As well as, intensive measurement and simulation work by the analysis group on the world-renowned Southwater Analysis Institution (SRE) has uncovered much more alternative to ship cabinet-based enhancements that additional cut back the acoustic influence of the loudspeaker enclosure. Because of its intensive use of aluminium elements, together with all-new Area Body Bracing to the rear of the cupboard, the brand new D5 technology of 800 Collection Diamond options the perfect performing and most mechanically ‘quiet’ enclosure that Bowers & Wilkins has ever created.
Some expertise highlights embody:
Area Body Bracing
That includes parallel aluminium bracing rails which are periodically strengthened longitudinally and transversely,
the Area Body Bracing system bolts on to the rear of the Matrix inside every D5 cupboard. It performs the same operate to the aluminium bracing to the entrance of the loudspeaker, by stiffening the within of the enclosure and thereby additional decreasing the undesirable influence of vibration and cabinet-borne resonance.
The result’s an much more plausible and three-dimensional sound stage.
New plinth with tuned-mass damping
All floor-standing fashions within the new D5 vary embody a considerably revised aluminium plinth that has been fastidiously re-profiled to match the type of every corresponding loudspeaker cupboard. In an additional nod to improved aesthetics, the supporting legs beneath the loudspeaker achieve a brand new top quality metallic
trim whereas the decrease fringe of the plinth has been prolonged downwards to assist conceal the wheels and spikes under the loudspeaker.
To enhance efficiency, every plinth is designed to withstand undesirable vibration utilizing a mixture of constrained-layer and tuned-mass damping. The brand new tuned lots are individually specified to swimsuit the distinctive properties of every plinth and additional assist minimise undesirable output of the loudspeaker. All 4 plinths have been additional refined with the addition of stabilising outriggers engineered to sit down contained in the plinth itself, additional enhancing the design detailing.
All-new aluminium prime plate
Vastly benefitting from the modelling and simulation work that was carried out on the 801 D4 Signature, the brand new D5 design introduces a considerably revised aluminium plate that braces the highest part of every cupboard. With thicker aluminium ribbing sections for larger stiffness, extra mechanical location factors to optimise coupling to the highest of the enclosure and revised decoupling mounts to assist the Turbine Head
or Strong-Physique-Tweeter meeting, the result is improved mechanical behaviour on the prime of every cupboard.
Every aluminium prime plate is additional refined with an upgraded collar trimmed in Leather-based by Connolly and critically damped with materials derived from the 800 Collection D4 Signature loudspeakers, additional decreasing undesirable output from the aluminium plate it bodily connects to.
Enhanced Matrix
Constructing on the already phenomenally stiff Matrix™ Bracing system discovered within the 800 Collection Diamond vary, the brand new Enhanced Matrix™ provides enormously elevated stiffness to the important space on the entrance of the cupboard round every particular person drive unit. Utilizing thick sections of aluminium which have been fastidiously profiled to brace round every drive unit aperture and additional stiffened with ribbed sections to the rear, the Enhanced Matrix joins the newly launched Area Body Bracing and all-new aluminium prime plate in offering huge will increase in cupboard stiffness and commensurate reductions in undesirable noise.
Aluminium mid-range enclosure (804 D5)
Marking probably the most vital new expertise introductions within the vary, the brand new 804 D5 has been considerably revised to incorporate an inside aluminium enclosure for its Continuum Cone FST™ meeting. Derived from the vastly stiff Turbine Head construction used on all bigger floorstanding fashions within the 800 Collection Diamond vary, the aluminium enclosure each isolates the midrange meeting and supplies a extremely constant mechanical decoupling level for the drive unit itself. The result’s a extra free and open sound from the Continuum Cone midrange that extra successfully emulates the spatial presentation of a real headed mannequin, such because the 803 D5. On the identical time, the 804 D5 retains the extra standard aesthetic that marks it out as essentially the most discreet selection of floorstanding mannequin within the vary.
Signature specification grille mesh and drive unit motor techniques
All new 800 Collection Diamond D5 fashions profit from the newest technology of tweeter grille mesh for his or her Diamond Dome tweeters, first developed for the extremely acclaimed 801 D4 Signature. The brand new design retains the identical dome-protecting stiffness however is extra acoustically clear. Consequently, decision is enormously elevated whereas off-axis efficiency is notably improved.
As well as, each midrange, bass/midrange and bass drive unit within the new vary has been considerably improved with the introduction of decrease distortion motor techniques based mostly on Signature-specification elements. This ensures a cleaner, extra correct sounding presentation with higher decision, transient response and dynamics.
Upgraded wiring harnesses and crossovers
Each product within the D5 vary has been enhanced with the addition of improved crossover elements, derived from the Signature specification loudspeakers, plus an all-new wiring harness with higher-quality cabling and terminal put up hyperlinks. The result’s even larger decision.
Crossover mounting plate
In all new stereo fashions within the vary, the crossover meeting is housed on an all-aluminium plate development that’s rigidly coupled into each the cupboard and the Area Body Bracing on the again of the cupboard utilizing substantial M8 and M4 fixings. This additional will increase the general stiffness of the 800 Collection Diamond cupboard. In a further nod to design magnificence, the brand new fixings have been fastidiously hid behind model and mannequin identifier plates.
Revealed to the world on 4th June at HIGH END Vienna and that can be purchased from ninth September, the brand new 800 Collection Diamond has been engineered for audio connoisseurs who demand the easiest in efficiency, high quality and design, and for studio professionals who require essentially the most correct and revealing sound potential. It took Bowers & Wilkins 60 years to make audio system this good. Pay attention, and also you’ll see.
- 801 D5 | £43,000 / $65,000 / €50,000
The flagship: a loudspeaker that units the usual different high-end designs might be judged by for years to return.
- 802 D5 | £32,500 / $45,000 / €37,000
Utilizing the identical proportions because the flagship mannequin and the identical 6in FST midrange cone, 802 D5 is a superb performer at a extra reasonably priced value level.
- 803 D5 | £25,500 / $35,000 / €30,000
An elegantly proportioned headed loudspeaker, 803 D5 makes the advantages of a headed loudspeaker extra broadly accessible because of its smaller footprint.
- 804 D5 | £16,000 / $25,000 / €18,000
With a extra conventional aesthetic than its headed siblings, the floorstanding 804 D5 nonetheless excels because of its superior drive items and stiff, curved cupboard.
- 805 D5 | £10,000 / $15,000 / €12,000
The 2-way 805 D5 standmount is a perfect selection for a smaller loudspeaker.
- HTM81 D5 | £10,000 / $15,000 / €12,000 every
A 3-way centre channel to be used with 801 and 802 D5.
- HTM82 D5 | £8,000 / $12,000 / €10,000 every
A 3-way centre channel to be used with 803 and 804 D5.
- FS-805 D5 | £1,600 / $2,000 / €1,800
Excessive-performance flooring stand, excellent to be used with 805 D5.
- FS-HTM D5 | £1,100 / $1,500 / €1,300 every
Centre-channel stand to be used with HTM81 D5 or HTM82 D5.
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Bowers & Wilkins, based within the U.Ok. in 1966, has been on the forefront of high-performance audio expertise for nearly 60 years. It designs and manufactures precision dwelling audio system, headphones, customized set up and efficiency automotive audio merchandise that set new requirements for innovation and sound high quality, incomes numerous awards and accolades from the world’s main recording studios and musicians. Bowers & Wilkins’ repute relies on the unwavering pursuit of the very best sound and an unsurpassable music listening expertise. Be taught extra at www.bowerswilkins.com.
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