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Best Loudspeaker £500 - £1000
Bowers & Wilkins 683
It's not every day that B&W launches a new range, so when the company changed its ever-popular 600 series, we all took notice. The 683 sits in the middle of the range and features the company's 150mm FST midrange unit found in the more up-market 800 series. This, coupled to two 165mm aluminum/Kevlar bass units and an aluminum dome tweeter, makes for a dynamic and revealing loudspeaker design that's going to set the standard for years to come.
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Best Loudspeaker £5000+
Bowers & Wilkins 802D
B&W innovative diamond tweeter and Kevlar midrange unit impressed us big time in 2005. So much so, it's two years later and still nothing comes close. The 802D combines remarkably effortless sound with a vast sense of scale and makes almost every other speaker seem glaringly false. Despite the titanic scale, the speaker is as entertaining as a small, fast box. A triumph of audio engineering, then and a genuine benchmark loudspeaker.
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Bowers & Wilkins 683
It's not every day that B&W launches a new range, so when the company changed its ever-popular 600 series, we all took notice. The 683 sits in the middle of the range and features the company's 150mm FST midrange unit found in the more up-market 800 series. This, coupled to two 165mm aluminum/Kevlar bass units and an aluminum dome tweeter, makes for a dynamic and revealing loudspeaker design that's going to set the standard for years to come.
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Best Loudspeaker £5000+
Bowers & Wilkins 802D
B&W innovative diamond tweeter and Kevlar midrange unit impressed us big time in 2005. So much so, it's two years later and still nothing comes close. The 802D combines remarkably effortless sound with a vast sense of scale and makes almost every other speaker seem glaringly false. Despite the titanic scale, the speaker is as entertaining as a small, fast box. A triumph of audio engineering, then and a genuine benchmark loudspeaker.
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