Bowers & Wilkins Floorstanding Speaker 800 Series 801 D4 Signature in Midnight Blue Metallic (Each) - FP44229

Bowers & Wilkins FP44229 Floorstanding Speaker 800 Series 801 D4 Signature in Midnight Blue Metallic (Each)

Crafted. Honed. Perfected.

Expertly crafted, diligently honed and optimized for perfection. The 800 Series Signature models build on the pioneering foundations of our most advanced range of loudspeakers. Refined technologies, timeless design and unique characteristics combine for a pinnacle loudspeaker. The 800 Series Signature models are loudspeakers like no other. They are the culmination of Bowers & Wilkins’ enduring dedication to performance and elegance.

Features

• About Signature
  The name ‘Signature’ is one of the most illustrious and evocative in the Bowers & Wilkins canon. We apply it sparingly, carefully – and only when the product concept we’ve got in mind is appropriate and consistent with the narrative that underpins our Signature models. Every Signature model has had its own unique identity and at the same time, every model has been connected to its predecessor by several common threads: no-holds-barred performance, unique, distinctive beauty and special-edition exclusivity. Signature is a level above the best. This is us perfected.
• Crafted
  We are inventors, pioneers and innovators, continuously developing technologies and products that raise the bar for audio excellence. Bowers & Wilkins engineers craft our 800 Series Signature models with the same care and precision that all our category-defining audio systems are renowned for. The results, however, are unique.
• Honed
  Built on the foundations of our most advanced technologies, we carefully optimize our 800 Series Signature models to reflect the latest developments in audio excellence. The small details can make the biggest difference – and these are the ones we pay close attention to fine-tuning.
• Perfected
  We’re passionate about providing the best, truest listening experience we can. Our 800 Series Signature models draw from this lifelong goal and offer a pinnacle in performance and design. We’ve evolved our reference loudspeakers to optimum heights. This is the best of our best.
• Turbine Head
  Hear the sound, not the cabinet. Our all-aluminum Turbine Head is a phenomenally stiff and inert housing for the crucial midrange cone, carefully damped to avoid unwanted resonances and decoupled from both the bass enclosure and the tweeter body. The result? The most realistic midrange sound yet.
• Solid Body Tweeter
  The latest incarnation of our iconic Solid Body Tweeter-on-Top housing features an elongated form with a longer tube-loading system and an all-new design of tweeter grille that has been optimized to produce an even more free and open sound with high frequencies. As before, the carefully decoupled housing is milled from a single solid block of aluminum to better resist resonance.
• Reverse Wrap cabinet
  Instead of a flat-fronted speaker with a curving back, our cabinets are formed from one continuous curve, finished off with a spine of solid aluminum. Fewer joins make for a stiffer, more inert structure, and a curved front means less baffling around the drive units. So sound dispersion is improved, and cabinet reflection is reduced.
• Matrix™
  Matrix™ bracing uses interlocking panels to reinforce loudspeaker cabinet walls in all directions internally, reducing resonance and creating a more believable soundstage. Both the new 800 Series Signature models benefit from our most advanced Matrix design that combines solid plywood construction with aluminum bracing to reinforce key stress points.
• Biomimetic Suspension
  Sometimes, making a big difference takes unconventional thinking. For decades, we thought nothing could improve on the sound of our famous yellow Aramid Fibre midrange cones, but eventually, our Continuum™ Cone technology changed our minds. Now, we’ve turned our attention to another crucial element in a loudspeaker cone: the fabric spider.
• Continuum Cone™
  Thanks to its composite construction, the Continuum™ Cone avoids the abrupt transitions in behavior that can impair the performance of a conventional drive unit. The result is a more open, neutral performance that delivers voices and instruments with precision and transparency.
• Decoupled Midrange Assembly
  Our 801 D4 Signature loudspeaker has a dedicated midrange cone using four key Bowers & Wilkins technologies: the Continuum™ Cone, FST™, Biomimetic Suspension and midrange decoupling, the latter ensuring minimal interference from the operation of the loudspeaker’s bass drivers.
• Aluminum top-plate
  Every new 800 Series Signature model has a significantly upgraded cabinet design with an all-new, optimized aluminum top section for even greater stiffness. The same design also provides a perfect mounting point for all-new Leather by Connolly cabinet detailing, with luxurious full-grain blue leather for our Midnight Blue Metallic models and full-grain black leather for our California Burl Gloss models.
• Crossover
  Both new 800 Series Signature models use upgraded rear-mounted crossover designs mounted on stiff aluminum spines. This isolates the sensitive capacitors from the unwanted effects of air pressure within the enclosure and makes for a very effective heatsink to ensure optimum performance when in use.
• Leather by Connolly
  The top section of both speakers features an optimized aluminum top-plate, covered in all-new Leather by Connolly trim. We use luxurious, full-grain blue leather for Midnight Blue Metallic, and full-grain black leather for California Burl Gloss.