700 Series

700 Series
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700 Series

Product catalog summary
Overview of the 700 Series
The 700 Series by Bowers & Wilkins offers studio-quality sound for home audio systems, succeeding the CM Series. It integrates advanced technologies from the 800 Series Diamond and introduces new innovations, all within aesthetically pleasing cabinets suitable for home environments.
Key Models and Features
  • 702 S2: Equipped with a Carbon Dome™ tweeter and Continuum™ midrange for realistic sound.
  • 705 S2: Features a tweeter-on-top design for high performance, capturing subtle musical details.
  • 703 S2: A three-way floorstander with robust bass and clear treble, ideal for large rooms.
  • 704 S2: Slim design with detailed sound, fitting seamlessly into home settings.
  • 706 S2: Bookshelf speaker with a large midrange/bass drive, suitable for bigger rooms.
  • 707 S2: Compact speaker delivering clear and powerful sound, perfect for smaller rooms.
Home Cinema
The 700 Series is perfect for home cinema setups, providing high-performance acoustics. It can be paired with center-channel speakers like the HTM71 or HTM72 and the DB4S subwoofer for an immersive movie experience.
Technological Innovations
  • Carbon Dome™ Tweeter: Enhances imaging accuracy.
  • Solid Body Tweeter: Found in 705 and 702 models, it resists resonances.
  • Continuum™ Cone: Delivers a neutral midrange, initially introduced in the 800 Series Diamond.
  • Aerofoil™ Profile Cone: Offers dynamic bass with stiffness and rigidity.
Specifications
The document details specifications for each model, including technical features, drive units, frequency range, sensitivity, harmonic distortion, nominal impedance, recommended amplifier power, dimensions, weight, and available finishes.
Design Philosophy
The 700 Series emphasizes the balance between functional and aesthetic qualities, with designs that prioritize acoustic performance while maintaining visual appeal.
Product Specifications and Options
Various finishes are available for Bowers & Wilkins products, including Rosenut, Gloss Black, Satin White, and Black. Grey is available only with Satin White.
Engagement and Communication
Bowers & Wilkins encourages engagement through social media, providing handles for Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, along with a blog link. They emphasize staying updated with new products, offers, and events.
Dealer and Purchase Information
The document highlights the importance of consulting authorized dealers for expert advice on Hi-Fi setups and audio-visual installations, providing a link to find the nearest dealer.
Website and Additional Resources
The Bowers & Wilkins website offers a full range of products for purchase and hosts the Society of Sound, a music club and blog for enthusiasts.
Trademark and Copyright Information
The document lists trademarks such as Continuum, Aerofoil, Flowport, and FST, noting that Kevlar is a registered trademark of DuPont. It also includes copyright information for Bowers & Wilkins Group Ltd.
Design and Printing
The design is credited to Thomas Manss & Company, and the printing to mibrand.com. The company reserves the right to amend specifications without notice.
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Catalog excerpts

700 Series-2

Studio sound comes home Bring the breathtaking clarity and definition of studio sound home with the new 700 Series. Replacing the CM Series, the range combines studio-grade 800 Series Diamond technologies with purpose-built innovations to elevate home audio to an entirely new level. And all this from room-friendly cabinets designed to fit beautifully into your home environment. The new 700 Series. Inspired by recording studios. Made for living rooms.

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700 Series-5

Featuring a Carbon Dome tweeter in a solid-body housing and a decoupled Continuum midrange, the 700 Series’ flagship floorstander brings studio-quality sound to your home audio set up. The speaker relays textural details with goosebump-inducing accuracy, making even largescale recordings sound stunningly lifelike. ™

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700 Series-6

With state of the art features such as the tweeter-ontop design borrowed from the 800 Series Diamond, this uncompromising high performance two-way speaker reveals subtle nuances in music others miss. Even challenging instruments such as the piano are conveyed with uncanny realism, presence and transparency.

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700 Series-7

A substantial, uncompromising three-way floorstander built to fill even the largest rooms with full-blooded, realistic sound. Powerful bass lines come roaring to life, while the speaker’s dedicated Continuum™ midrange driver and Carbon Dome tweeter lend an astonishing clarity to vocals and treble effects.

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700 Series-8

A slim, elegant floorstander designed to blend unobtrusively into your home environment, while providing the commanding presence of a much larger speaker. Music is a revelation, with details picked out in pin-sharp detail and with exceptional realism.

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700 Series-9

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700 Series-10

Small speaker, big sound. Ideal for smaller rooms, and designed for use on bookshelf or stand, the 707 produces tremendous highs and depths for a compact unit. Its twoway design and advanced drive units make for a sound that’s clear, powerful and remarkably cohesive.

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700 Series-11

HTM71 This large three-way centre-channel speaker delivers unprecedented power and transparency, for totally convincing voice reproduction. It's designed to be paired with larger speakers in the range, such as the 703 floorstanders. This high performance two-way centre speaker is a great choice for home cinema set-ups in smaller rooms, where space is at a premium. Partner it up with the more compact 700 Series speakers, such as the 706 or the 704. Providing the ideal balance of high-performance acoustics and living room-friendly dimensions, 700 Series speakers are a superlative choice for home...

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700 Series-12

In leading recording studios, music that will soon be heard everywhere is heard first through Bowers & Wilkins speakers. “Bowers & Wilkins speakers are the only speakers I have found that enable me to accurately listen to how the original performance has been recorded.” Peter Cobbin, producer and sound engineer. Recent feature film work includes Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Doctor Strange and Alien: Covenant.

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700 Series-13

From artist to listener A great speaker does more than allow you to hear music. It acts as a bridge – a way to close the divide between listener and performance. Listen to 700 Series speakers, and music feels alive. You discover details you never noticed before. You can place every instrument, every note, every intake of breath, with flawless accuracy. You can sense the emotion in the room. Suddenly, you’re no longer just listening to a recorded performance. You’re right there, with the performer in the stud

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700 Series-14

Macy Gray Stripped Annabelle “Beautifully recorded (in a decommissioned Brooklyn Church), this live set has realism and insight to burn. The textural details, most notably in the guitar, are just superb.” Lou Reed The Raven Vanishing Act “Look for details such as the amplifier gain being turned up on his microphone just before he starts to sing, plus the soft shimmer of the hi-hats in the back of the studio.” Deadmau5 While (1<2) Seeya, featuring Colleen D’Agostino “Syncing ferociously powerful electro-bass with a real-life bass guitar, this taut, hammering progressive house monster is a great...

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700 Series-15

The 700 Series is an entirely new range of speakers. Compared with the outgoing CM Series, every transducer has changed and radically improved. To do this, we’ve borrowed some of the most advanced technologies from our flagship 800 Series Diamond, adapting them to suit a more attainable price point. And we’ve introduced entirely new technologies, designed specifically for this range

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700 Series-16

Solid body tweeter The 705 and 702 speakers employ solid body tweeters, a high-performance design feature found previously only on the 800 Series Diamond. Its acoustically optimised form is milled from a solid block of aluminium, forming a structure that's exceptionally inert and resistant to resonances. Carbon Dome™ tweeter Carbon Dome tweeters are a brand new technology purpose-built for the 700 Series. Delivering a dramatic improvement on the aluminium Double-dome tweeter, they raise the breakup threshold to 47kHz, for pinpoint imaging accuracy and detail. Continuum™ cone First introduced...

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700 Series-17

Midrange chassis The three floor-standing loudspeakers in the range employ a new FEA-optimised aluminium chassis for the midrange drivers. This new design is stiffer than the zinc chassis of the CM Series, for improved control and cleaner midrange presentation. Aerofoil™ Profile cone The new Aerofoil Profile bass cone has the same variable thickness design as the bass cones in 800 Series Diamond speakers. Developed using advanced computer modeling techniques, it provides stiffness and rigidity where it's needed most, for deep and dynamic bass. Decoupled midrange The midrange drivers in the floor-standers...

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