Bowers And Wilkins - 805 D5 Bookshelf Speakers (Pair)

Experience "True Sound" from Bookshelf Loudspeakers: Bowers & Wilkins 805 D5 Feature Diamond Dome Tweeters, Tweeter-on-Top Architecture, and Reverse-Wrap Cabinets

Created under the premise of playing with what Bowers & Wilkins deems "True Sound," 805 D5 serves the artist's original intent by reproducing music with beguiling transparency, detail, resolution, and accuracy that practically take you to the recording studio. When employed in a 800 Series Diamond home-theater setup, 805 D5 promises the same kind of immersiveness with cinematic films, television shows, and sporting events.

Designed to excel playing any kind of music — from modern pop to bluegrass, bebop to opera, outlaw country to golden-age hip-hop, stoner rock to speed metal — the two-way 805 D5 doesn't discriminate when it comes to genre. Its advanced driver array accounts for its engaging dynamics, openness, air, and balance. A specialist when it comes to recreating believable soundstages and intricate details, Bowers & Wilkins' one-inch diamond dome tweeter and signature solid-body Tweeter-on-Top housing — milled from a single block of aluminum and sculpted into an elongated form with a long tube-loading system that lessens rear diffraction — accompany a 6.5-inch Continuum cone bass midrange and an aluminum bass pod. They're part of a form-follows-function mentality that helps make music sound as if it is being made in your room in real time by real artists.

Yet what might startle you most is how true to the source 805 D5 remains in both the analog and digital domains. Credit for such transparency owes to Bowers & Wilkins engineers' belief that everything involved with the speaker's construction can impact the end result. That obsessive passion explains why 805 D5 is made entirely in the company's dedicated factory in England — and why all its components went through years of sophisticated testing and analysis. That painstaking devotion also accounts for why many of the world's foremost music institutions and recording studios — Abbey Road Studios, Capitol Records, Interscope Records, 20th Century Fox, Sony, MIT, Sterling Sound, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra to name just a handful — choose to use the 800 Series Diamond family in their everyday pursuits.

Measuring 17.3 x 9.5 x 14.3inches (HWD), 805 D5 touts advanced Matrix bracing, in which interlocking panels reinforce the cabinet walls in all directions to reduce resonance and solidify the soundstage. Another major perk: The reverse-wrap cabinet, wherein the front and sides are formed from one continuous curve and held together by a solid aluminum spine. In real-word terms, the approach improves dispersion and lessens reflections. Add to these features the Leather by Connolly detailing, choice of four colors, and rear-mounted crossover mounted on stiff aluminum spines — a unique touch that isolates the sensitive capacitors and acts as a strategic heatsink. The speaker's unique architecture, which extends to the decoupled tweeter housing, also means colorations are practically an afterthought.

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Distinctive by Design
The 800 Series Diamond looks this way for a reason. Its shape is dictated by the science of sound. Cabinets are formed from a single continuous curve, locked in place by a solid aluminum spine, so cabinet reflections are reduced. They're complemented by the tweeter-on-top and turbine head.

Ultimate Drive Unit Technology
Pairing B&W's most advanced and innovative drive unit technology, 805 D5 delivers standout purity. The Diamond dome tweeter pushes break-up frequency to 70kHz, delivering exceptional clarity, precision, and openness, and the Continuum cone delivers voices and instruments with lifelike detail.

Optimized for Purity
Every model in the 800 Series Diamond range benefits from enhanced technology. An upgraded Matrix design reduces resonance and creates an incredibly believable soundstage, while aluminum Space Frame Bracing and an all-new aluminum top section within the cabinet help deliver spacious and immersive sound.