Bowers And Wilkins - HTM81 D5 Center Channel Speaker

Rival Your Local Cineplex and Create a Home Theater You Won't Want to Leave: Bowers & Wilkins HTM81 D5 Center-Channel Loudspeaker Features One-Inch Diamond Tweeter and Two Eight-Inch Bass Drivers

Specifically created to pair with the Bowers & Wilkins 801 D5 and 802 D5 floor-standing speakers, the HTM81 D5 center-channel speaker performs its role as the anchor of a surround-sound setup with reference-setting performance, crystal-clear clarity, and effortless ease. Recognizing that the center-channel is often the most important speaker in a home-theater system, Bowers & Wilkins loaded the three-way HTM81 D5 with innovative technologies and built it to stand up to any demands.

Measuring 13.2 x 33.3 x 14.3 inches (HWD) and weighing a hefty 73.5 pounds, HTM81 D5 is no shrinking violet. Like the 800 Series Diamond sibling tower models to which it is voiced to match, it plays with astounding scale, detail, and extension — and claims many of the same features. Those include a one-inch diamond dome tweeter; 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; Matrix bracing with interlocking panels for superb reinforcement; and Biomimetic Suspension that dramatically reduces unwanted air pressure and coloration.

And that's just the beginning. The six-inch Continuum cone FST midrange resides in a stiff aluminum enclosure that both serves as a controlled location point for the midrange decoupling and prevents unwanted air leakage into the cabinet. For the two eight-inch woofers, Bowers & Wilkins turns to its Aerofoil bass cones —remarkable for their carbon-fiber skin and variable-profile foam core — as well as an Anti-Resonance Plug to ensure ultra-low distortion and robust, rich, deep low-end performance.

In every way, the British-built HTM81 D5 reimagines the concept of a center-channel speaker and, with 801 D5 and 802 D5, promises that in-home multichannel sound can exceed even the limit-pushing immersive feelings of a cineplex.