Bowers & Wilkins 600 Series Decoupled dual-layer 1" speaker 683 S2
Bowers & Wilkins The largest speaker in the 600 Series. This floorstander is ideal for audiophile stereo and home theatre applications in larger rooms, delivering serious performance and amazing value.
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The 683 S2 features a Decoupled Double Dome tweeter - technology evolved from Bowers & Wilkins CM10 speaker. The double dome design uses an extremely thin aluminium dome for lightness, surrounded by a thicker aluminium ring for rigidity. The result is a far more precise treble performance. And while the tweeter looks like it's part of the main speaker, it's physically separated in its own gel-filled cavity, so performance isn't hit by unwanted resonances or vibrations, for a more natural, spacious sound.
Serious and accurate bass performance is equally vital to such a room-filling speaker. That's why the 683 S2 features a new bass driver construction method, using a similar method of bracing to the tweeter with twin layers of aluminium. The richer, distortion-free bass response is sumptuous.
As well as new bass driver construction techniques and a new tweeter, brought in from Bower & Wilkins high-end series, the 683 S2 also boasts an FST Kevlar midrange driver. Serious technology, serious performance, but seriously affordable for a speaker of this calibre.
Specifications | |
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Technical features | Decoupled Double Dome aluminium tweeter with Nautilus™ tube loading Kevlar® brand fibre cone FST™ midrange driver Dual-layer aluminium cone bass driver Flowport™ |
Description | 3-way vented-box system |
Drive units | 1x ø25mm (1 in) aluminium dome high-frequency 1x ø150mm (6 in) woven Kevlar® cone FST™ midrange 2x ø165mm (6.5 in) aluminium cone bass |
Frequency range | -6dB at 30Hz and 50kHz |
Frequency response | 52Hz - 22kHz ±3dB on reference axis |
Dispersion | Within 2dB of reference response Horizontal: over 60º arc Vertical: over 10º arc |
Sensitivity | 89dB spl (2.83V, 1m) |
Harmonic distortion | 2nd and 3rd harmonics (90dB, 1m) <1% 95Hz - 22kHz <0.5% 120Hz - 20kHz |
Nominal impedance | 8Ω (minimum 3.0Ω) |
Crossover frequencies | 400Hz, 4kHz |
Recommended amplifier power | 25W - 200W into 8Ω on unclipped programme |
Max. recommended cable impedance | 0.1Ω |
Dimensions | Height: 985mm (38.8 in) cabinet only Width: 190mm (7.5 in) cabinet only Depth: 364mm (14.3 in) |
Net weight | 27.2kg (59.7 lb) |
Finishes | Black Ash White |
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