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    Bowers & Wilkins 805 D4

    Oct 11, 2021 5 minutes

    We couldn’t have wished for a more prestigious launch to occur while we assembled our group of standmounts. With great fanfare and a wildly optimistic embargo period, Bowers & Wilkins announced the entire new 800 Series D4 (see also News p9), and we were soon donning the white gloves to unbox this pair of the standmounts from the new 800 series, the 805 D4.

    The 805 D4 gets some but not all of the new stuff – there’s no Biomimetic Suspension because the 165mm Continuum driver is here handling both midrange and bass, so that its travel is greater than the new suspension device can (yet) handle. On the other hand it gains perhaps the most radical revamp of all – the complete cabinet reversal that the floorstanders enjoyed with the D3 series. This is what the company calls a

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