B&W 702 SIGNATURE LOUDSPEAKERS
I was a great fan of B&W’s 702 loudspeaker design, and of the Series 2 version of it that followed, which was a significant improvement. So I was intrigued when the famous British company announced that it was releasing a special ‘Signature’ version of the 702, because I wondered how such an evolved design could be further improved. I was lucky enough to be given the chance to find out, and what follows is what I discovered.
UNIQUE CABINET FINISH
Extracting the first of my review pair of speakers from its packaging revealed one difference straight away: a new finish, one that I’d never seen before on any B&W speaker (or on any other brand I can think of). It turned out to be a veneer B&W calls Datuk Gloss that is apparently unique because B&W says that the veneers on any pair will be slightly different to the veneers on any other pair, because no two models share the same grain pattern.
B&W sources this essentially “ebony- -coloured” veneer from a specialist timber company called Alpi that is based in
