The Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) Panorama is a great product to upgrade your flatscreen TV’s sound. Says Ryno Goosen from HFX Systems: “It provides amazing audio quality with surround sound and stereo, an active centre speaker for wonderful movie sound, simple connection and set-up – a true one-box solution: no subwoofer required.”
The Panorama is the result of intensive research by B&W’s renowned engineering team at its UK Research and Development Division in Steyning, West Sussex. It includes technologies originally developed for high-end speakers and uses them to bring a new level of performance to soundbars.
Using a combination of multiple drive units and Digital Signal Processing (DSP), the Panorama not only boosts the quality of your TV to unprecedented levels, but 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.
Ryno explains: “The vast majority of sound from even the most effect-heavy movie soundtrack is delivered through the centre speaker in a surround sound system, and B&W has worked hard to get this aspect of the Panorama spot on. Of the nine drive units housed within the Panorama’s aluminium casework, five are utilised 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.”
Panorama is designed to partner a flatscreen TV, and offers flexibility when it comes to positioning. It can be placed on its own feet or attached to the wall using the supplied bracket for wall-mounted screens. Having said that however, wherever the Panorama is positioned, there can be little doubting its beauty –stylishly crafted in the same manner as its sibling, the Zeppelin, the Panorama mixes sleek black with a shining aluminium panel to produce the best looking soundbar on the market, and one that it is designed to complement the looks of the latest flatscreen televisions. It is designed to partner flatscreen televisions, from 37-inches and upwards.
The B&W Panorama retails for R14 999 and it is distributed by HFX Systems – visit vwww.bwloudspeakers.co.za for a retailer closest to you.
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