DETAILS
PRODUCT Bowers & Wilkins Formation Duo
ORIGIN UK/China TYPE 2-way infinite baffle design
WEIGHT 10.6kg
DIMENSIONS (WxHxD) 197 x 395 x 305mm
FEATURES
- 25mm dome tweeter; 165mm mid/bass driver
- Ethernet; Bluetooth
- Claimed power handling: 2x 125W RMS
DISTRIBUTOR Bowers & Wilkins
Аlthough passive speakers make up about 80 percent of B&W's business, there's no doubt that it places much importance on its newer concepts such as the Formation Duo. Effectively the company's best wireless offering, it's a platform upon which future products may be based.
Two aspects are key to this design: first, the drivers and cabinets use trickle-down technology from B&W's high-end passive speakers. Second, it runs the company's own wireless transmission protocol, based on a mesh network - where everything on the network dynamically chooses the optimal path to route audio data.
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