Bowers & Wilkins Formation Wedge

The Bowers & Wilkins Wedge is part of the recently-launched Formation series, a collection of products which can form a B&W multiroom system throughout your home, all connected at high resolution, and using their own wireless network to do so. The Wedge is one of the Formation highlights, a roughly elliptical multi-driver wireless speaker curving around the front, displaying the silky cloth-formed diamond patterns used across the Formation range, and its rear almost equally beautiful in curving polished wood. It’s a beautiful thing — does it make an equally beautiful sound?

Equipment

While B&W has come late to the multiroom party, it is no newcomer when it comes to wireless speakers. Indeed the company pretty much defined the premium section of that market with the Zeppelin, which began life as an iPod dock before evolving into a wireless model. There are clear connections between the most recent of those and this new Wedge in both design and sound, and we gather the amplifiers are updated versions of those used in the Zeppelin.

We love the look. From the front, you’d think this was a flat-backed, half-moon ellipse, but it’s actually an interesting 120-degree wedge design. At 23cm tall,