BOWERS & WILKINS 600 SERIES

Here at Best Buys Audio & AV we have been reviewing Bowers & Wilkins loudspeakers for, literally, decades. In all that time we’ve yet to be disappointed by them. That continues with the new B&W 600 Series, now up to its sixth generation.

EQUIPMENT

Just to put things in context, the B&W 600 Series is the company’s, well, ‘entry level’ series of full-sized speakers. Of course, B&W also has compact systems for a variety of purposes. Above the 600 Series are three more expensive ranges: the 700 Series, the 800 ‘Diamond’ Series, and the legendary and unique Nautilus stereo speakers.

There is one set of floorstanding speakers in the range, a centre channel, two bookshelf speaker-sized models and three subwoofers. For this review we listened to a package for surround sound, which included the 603 floorstanders and the HTM6 centre speaker at the front, with the 607 compact speakers for surround — they’re the smaller of the two bookshelf-sized models — and the