(12PressRelease.com) Bowers & Wilkins CM8 is a new three-way floor standing hi-fi loudspeaker. A more compact version of the award-winning CM9, it replaces the CM7. Its slim design is ideal for audiophiles for whom space is an issue. Available in two high-quality real wood finishes, and gloss black.
Bowers & Wilkins is proud to announce that its highly-regarded CM Series has a new model in the lineup. The CM8 is a slim floor stander that shares many of the acoustic benefits of the series‘ award award-winning flagship CM9, but is significantly smaller in stature.
The CM8 is compact and slim it shares a similar footprint to the diminutive CM1 bookshelf loudspeaker but its audio credentials are without question; this is a refined hi-fi loudspeaker. It‘s a true three-way design, with twin dedicated bass drivers providing low-frequency extension and power. It also utilizes Bowers & Wilkins‘ FSTâ„¢ Kevlar® midrange drive unit, which adds precision and clarity to the vital midrange performance.
At the heart of the CM8 is a purist approach to loudspeaker design, with no artificial additives. By using Bowers & Wilkins most refined drive unit technology, we‘ve been able to hone the loudspeaker down to its core essentials. The CM8 uses minimalist crossovers of remarkable simplicity and clarity, so what you hear is that much closer to the sound of the original recording.
Because Bowers & Wilkins designs and builds its own drive units and cabinets, both can be designed to work perfectly together. This allows the engineers at the world-famous Research Department in Steyning, West Sussex to use first order crossovers, which have only one component in the chain. This lets the engineers spend many, many hours of listening time rigorously auditioning a variety of components and selecting the ones that provide the exceptional sound quality the CM Series is famous for.
The CM Series also benefits from longer voice coils and larger magnets than the 600 Series that sits below it. This provides the speakers with more punch and attack, but also cuts down on distortion. All of which combines to ensure that while the CM Series is without question one of the most elegant loudspeaker ranges around, it‘s also one of the best sounding.
The CM8 takes this ethos to new levels: standing only 960mm tall and with a width of a mere 165mm, it‘s a very modestly proportioned loudspeaker, ideal for when space is tight, but great hi-fi sound is required. It features a 25mm aluminum dome tweeter, which utilizes Bowers & Wilkins Nautilusâ„¢ tube-loaded technology. A single 130mm woven Kevlar cone FST midrange unit, and a pair of 130mm paper/Kevlar cone bass units.
The CM8, which replaces the long-serving and well-regarded CM7, may be a very fine stereo loudspeaker designed for circuital audiophile listening. But it‘s also wonderful in a home theatre system when partnered with the CMC centre and CM1s at the rear, along with either the ASW10CM or the multi-award winning PV1 subwoofer.
All CM Series speakers come with aluminums driver trims. Grilles attach magnetically, so there are no unsightly grille-mounting features to spoil the clean lines of the speaker‘s façade.
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