BowersWilkins Products 2008 09 Catalog

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Weve done it from day one. When John Bowers set up the company in 1966, experimentation in sound and recording was escalating rapidly. It was the time of Sergeant Pepper, Pet Sounds and Like A Rolling Stone. Bowers had a pioneering spirit to match. His ambition was revolutionary for the day, and remains so: to create a loudspeaker that neither adds nor takes away from the music. In effect, the perfect loudspeaker. Weve been exploring the world of sound ever since. Well never settle for less than perfection, so well never stop improving our speakers. Once you have a passion for sound, you never lose it. When our founder John Bowers said this in 1966, he set in motion 40 years of groundbreaking research, development and technological innovation with one simple goal in mind: to create the perfect loudspeaker. In leading recording studios around the world, music that will soon be heard everywhere is heard first through B&W speakers. At George Lucas Skywalker Sound studios in Marin County, California, music is put to hit movies on the ultimate surround sound system, featuring B&W 800 Series monitors. And at Abbey Road, the worlds most famous recording facility, all three main studios employ B&W speakers to capture the output of artists as diverse as Coldplay, U2, Michael Nyman, Groove Armada and The Thrills. When the worlds most demanding users tell us what they think of our sound, we listen closely. The best loudspeaker isnt the one that gives the most, its the one that loses the least.