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Bowers & Wilkins 606 & 607 S3

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£2697

We have reviewed both the Bowers & Wilkins 606 S3 and 607 S3 speakers as individual stereo pairs, but what happens when you throw a centre channel and a subwoofer into the mix? Yes, you’ve got yourself a surround-sound home cinema speaker package.

So that’s exactly what we have here, a set-up using the two pairs of five-star Bowers & Wilkins speakers as the front and surround channels. Considering this system comprises two pairs of five-star speakers, you probably won’t be surprised to find out that it sounds good. Really good.

The system we have consists of the 606 S3 speakers (£749) as our front left and right channels, the 607 S3 (£599) as our surround speakers, the HTM6 S3 centre channel (£649) and the

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