Can you improve a speaker that is already good? Bowers & Wilkins believes it can and makes a regular practice of doing so. The brand that’s tantamount to British speaker royalty today introduced a new series of speakers that aims to push its already excellent 700 Series up a notch on the high-fidelity scale.
The 700 Series Signature, which carries the same designation as the Silver Signature Speaker introduced in 1991 posthumously to honor the company founder John Bowers (now deceased), refines three new models – the flagship 702 S3 Signature 3-way tower speaker ($9,000/pair), the 705 S3 Signature 2-way stand-mount speakers ($4,500/pair), the HTM71 S3 Signature Center-Channel speaker ($3,300), the first of the 700 Series.
The carbon-dome tweeter that sits on top in its own bullet-like enclosure remains the heart of the 700 Series but in the new Signature models it has been enhanced with the addition of a “more open” mesh grille derived from the 800 Series Signature models introduced in last year.
Signature models also feature B&W’s decoupled Continuum Cone FST midrange driver, which incorporates the Biomimetic suspension scheme developed for the 800 Series Diamond range as a replacement for the…
