Bowers & Wilkins 800 Series

The Bowers and Wilkins D3 Diamond Series feature new midrange and bass drivers with proprietary composites, revamped tweeter assembly, and a new enclosure to reduce resonance and improve performance.

For $20,000 per pair, you get an awful lot of the performance of the Bowers & Wilkins 800 D4 speakers in a pretty and more slender form factor that fits more easily into more listening room. I got a chance to fly to Boston a few years ago to experience...

Bowers & Wilkins has updated its flagship 800 Series Diamond range of loudspeakers. The fourth generation series — aka "D4" — have a new cabinet design, a new suspension system, and a redesigned housing for the tweeter, all of which are meant to...

Before we hand out our Editors Choice, Best Value and Product of the Year Awards for 2021, here's a summary of the winners of our Reviewers Choice Award for 2021. These are the products that received a formal review in the pages of Part-Time Audiophile...

The world-famous high-end speaker brand Bowers and Wilkins earned its reputation through decades of research and development, releasing numerous seminal speaker models that introduced concepts such as housing the tweeter in a separate enclosure. Today,...

Overture continued the B&W theme in their second room at CAF 2021, this time pairing the B&W 801D4 Speakers ($35,000/pair) with amplification from McIntosh Labs. Pictured up top are the massive 180 lb. a piece McIntosh MC901 Monoblock Amplifiers...

The 801 D4 Diamond is the latest salvo from Bowers & Wilkins. Now in its seventh generation, the 800 Series has been a fixture in recording studios such as Abbey Road and Skywalker Sound and is arguably the world's most celebrated monitor.

On the eve of the company's 50th anniversary, Bowers & Wilkins has seen fit to redefine its 800 Series Diamond speaker line, much of which will be made available in early October. The bottom line is, almost all of the component parts are different from...

Bowers & Wilkins is one of the most iconic brands in all of audiophilia and home theater and their 800 Series Diamond is arguably the most iconic of the breed-if not of all loudspeakers. It's distinct shape, construction and sound has made it an...

With so many loudspeaker brands on the market, choosing which to audition for the home can be overwhelming for newcomers seeking an elevated audio experience. Speaker design and production is a combination of art and science, but make no mistake, the...