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Bowers & Wilkins who make the highly popular Zeppelin iPod dock have used the CES Expo to launch the Panorama sound bar which delivers 175watts of home theatre performance from a stylish new system that includes technology originally developed for their legendary 800 series HiFi speakers.
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The result of intensive research by B&W’s engineering team at its UK Research and Development division in the UK the new offering uses a combination of multiple drive units and Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
B&W executives claim that Panorama not only boosts the quality of your TV to unprecedented levels, it also provides users with an immersive surround performance from a single speaker. “The wide ‘sweet spot’ it is capable of creating allows more people to experience the effect together, making it the ideal family entertainment system.”
The vast majority of sound from even the most effect-heavy movie soundtrack is delivered through the centre speaker in a surround sound system. B&W claims that it has nine drive units housed within the Panorama’s aluminium casework, five are utilized in the active centre speaker: two bass woofers, two midrange drivers and an aluminium dome tweeter featuring B&W’s Nautilus Tube Loaded technology.
The other four drive units provide the rest of the sound, and each one is located within its own enclosure to maintain a purity of performance. All the drive units are powered by six class D amplifiers, providing a combined power output of 175Watts.
This combination means the Panorama is a true one-box solution. It provides more than enough bass output for the vast majority of living rooms, and only if you have the system in a particularly large room would you need to add a subwoofer such as Bowers & Wilkins’ award-winning PV1.
Panorama will be available midyear in Australia with a retail price of around $3,500
