Abbey Road's studios legendary studio 2 grows to accommodate Bowers Wilkins 800 diamond

Abbey Road's Studio is quite possibly the most famous recording studio in the world. It is a here that artists such as The Beatles, U2, Gorve Armada and David Gilmour have recorded some of their finest moments.



And now the legendary control room has undergone a major refurbishment, which includes a new 60 channel AMS Neve 88RS mixing console, and the creation of extra space for the studio’s new Bowers & Wilkins 800 Diamond loudspeakers.



Jonathan Smith, manager of the Studios, is overjoyed with the new developments. "Abbey Road has always invested in the best cutting edge technology, to optimise the sound of our wonderful rooms. We are therefore delighted to have installed the finest, state of the art analogue console in the world’s most famous and iconic studio.



In combination with the most fantastic outboard gear and world famous engineers, Studio Two is a truly incredible offering to the modern recording environment."



The 800 Diamond is the flagship loudspeaker in the Bowers & Wilkins 800 Series Diamond range, and is the loudspeaker of choice of the most demanding recording studios and engineers because of its sheer, unadulterated realism.



Hi-Fi and home theater speakers plus iPod docks, noise isolating headphones, surround sound, subwoofers, studio monitors, floorstanders and loudspeakers from the British brand, Bowers & Wilkins.



The 800 Series Diamond is Bowers & Wilkins' flagship range. Regarded by many as the world’s finest loudspeaker series, every model features diamond tweeters.



Bowers & Wilkins loudspeakers are designed to reproduce sound as accurately as possible. Whether it's hi-fi, home theatre or custom installation, the audio performance of any Bowers & Wilkins loudspeaker is best in class.



The 800 Series Diamond is Bowers & Wilkins reference loudspeaker range. The 800 Series is used in the likes of Abbey Road Studios, and is recognised by most industry commentators as the world’s finest loudspeaker range.



One material sums up Bowers & Wilkins' quest for perfection in sound reproduction more than any other. Diamond. It’s the ultimate tweeter material – and the magic ingredient in our flagship 800 Series Diamond.



it’s perfect for smaller listening spaces. And it will serve equally well as the rear channels of a home theatre system. With 805 Diamond, you can now bring superb, breath-takingly realistic sound to places you never thought possible.



It’s part of the reason why 800 Series speakers have become legendary among professional recording studios and serious sound enthusiasts alike. And now, for the first time, you can hear the incredible precision and clarity of diamond in every speaker in the range. The very best just got even better. And perfection just got even closer.



Hard enough to cut stone and grind glass, diamond is a miracle material, used in advanced industrial applications like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Its combination of lightness and incredible stiffness also makes it the perfect tweeter material, capable of producing high frequencies way beyond the range of human hearing. Using modern scientific processes, we grow diamond under laboratory conditions to form the optimum tweeter dome shape.



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