BW | listen and you'll see

Our CM Series is something of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.  Its classic cabinet shapes, drive unit arrangements and handsome real wood veneers might lead you to expect a correspondingly conventional sound quality.  If so, you’d be in for a shock.  The sound of the CM Series is as full, crisp and startlingly true-to-life as you’d expect from a more high-end speaker range.  That’s because it possesses technologies, design innovations and performance that were first heard in top, studio quality ranges such as the B&W 800 Series.  The physical familiarity of the CM1 bookshelf, CM7 floorstander and CM centre only underlines just how far Bowers & Wilkins has brought sound reproduction in recent years.  You probably wouldn’t anticipate, for example, that the speakers of the CM Series include minimalist first-order crossovers, whose electrical simplicity is an indication of the quality and balance of the speakers’ mechanical design.  All three boast B&W’s Nautilus™ tube-loaded tweeter, our trademark yellow Kevlar® midrange or bass/midrange unit, and Flowport™, our low-turbulence speaker vent.  For hi-fi or home theatre, if you want speakers with some unexpected bite, try our wolves in sheep’s clothing.