Bowers & Wilkins has given its two most popular 800 D4 Series models the Signature treatment. The British brand doesn’t use the Signature label lightly, reserving it only for unusual or heavily upgraded versions of loudspeaker models that represent, in its own words, “no-holds-barred performance, unique, distinctive beauty and special-edition exclusivity”. In fact, only nine loudspeakers have carried the prestigious name since the brand was founded in 1966.
THE SIGNATURE STORY
The first Signature model was the Silver Signature released in 1991, the naming of which the keener mathematicians reading this will appreciate. For the less keen, the speakers arrived in the company’s 25th (‘silver’) anniversary year. It was an anniversary Bowers & Wilkins’ founder sadly did not see, for John Bowers succumbed to cancer four years earlier aged 65, and the Silver Signature — and Signature concept, really — were actually the engineering team’s personal tribute
