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801 Abbey Road Limited Edition
Celebrating the unique 45-year relationship between Bowers & Wilkins and Abbey Road, the 801 Abbey Road Limited Edition takes the 801 D4 Signature and reframes it in homage to the home of music making.
801 Abbey Road Limited Edition Information:
Where music history is made
For almost a century, Abbey Road has witnessed the creation of some of the world’s most celebrated songs, albums, films and game scores by the most revered artists and composers.
The start of something special
In 1979, John Bowers and his team developed the first 801 – a loudspeaker crafted for unrivalled accuracy. The engineers at Abbey Road immediately understood its value and adopted it as their monitor of choice full-time.
45 years of iconic sound
Over the last 45 years, successive generations of 800 Series loudspeakers have graced Abbey Road’s control rooms and contributed to the endlessly iconic music and film scores recorded there.
Celebrating a timeless legacy
The 801 Abbey Road Limited Edition is a celebration of the unique 45-year relationship between Bowers & Wilkins and Abbey Road. It takes the best loudspeaker Bowers & Wilkins currently manufactures and reframes it in homage to the home of music making.
Abbey Road-inspired finish
Directly inspired by the famous studio, the 801 Abbey Road Limited Edition boasts a carefully crafted Vintage Walnut cabinet, complemented by a bespoke red Leather by Connolly trim.
Included with purchase:
• A unique celebratory book, telling the story of Bowers & Wilkins working together with Abbey Road Studios, featuring rare and evocative photography.
• A letter of authenticity signed by the Head of Production at Bowers & Wilkins and the Managing Director of Abbey Road.
• A unique Abbey Road Studios visit and behind -the – scenes experience at the Bowers & Wilkins factory in Worthing (travel and accommodation not included).
About the Speaker:
Diamond Dome Tweeter:
One of our most significant accomplishments over the past two decades, the ultra-stiff, supremely accurate Diamond Dome tweeter is the perfect combination of low mass, exceptional stiffness, and outstanding accuracy
Turbine Head:
Hear the sound, not the cabinet. Our all-aluminium Turbine Head is a phenomenally stiff and inert housing for the crucial midrange cone, carefully damped to avoid unwanted resonances and decoupled from both the bass enclosure and the tweeter body. The result? The most realistic midrange sound yet
Solid Body Tweeter:
The latest incarnation of our iconic Solid Body Tweeter-on-Top housing features an elongated form with a longer tube-loading system and an ultra-thin tweeter grille design, that has been optimised to produce an even more free and open sound with high frequencies. As before, the carefully decoupled housing is milled from a single solid block of aluminium to better resist resonance.
Reverse Wrap Cabinet:
Instead of a flat-fronted speaker with a curving back, our cabinets are formed from one continuous curve, finished off with a spine of solid aluminium. Fewer joins make for a stiffer, more inert structure, and a curved front means less baffling around the drive units. So sound dispersion is improved, and cabinet reflection is reduced
Matrix™
Matrix™ bracing uses interlocking panels to reinforce loudspeaker cabinet walls in all directions internally, reducing resonance and creating a more believable soundstage. The 801 Abbey Road Limited Edition benefits from our most advanced Matrix design that combines solid plywood construction with aluminium
bracing to reinforce key stress points
Biomimetic Suspension:
Sometimes, making a big difference takes unconventional thinking. After Continuum revolutionised our midrange drive units in 2015, we’ve turned our attention to another crucial element in a loudspeaker cone: the fabric spider. Our advanced Biomimetic Suspension transforms midrange cone performance by greatly reducing the unwanted air pressure and coloration that a conventional fabric spider can generate. The result? Midrange transparency you wouldn’t believe possible
Continuum™ Cone:
Thanks to its composite construction, the Continuum™ Cone avoids the abrupt transitions in behaviour that can impair the performance of a conventional drive unit. The result is a more open, neutral performance that delivers voices and instruments with precision and transparency
Decoupled Midrange Assembly:
The 801 Abbey Road Limited Edition has a dedicated midrange cone using four key Bowers & Wilkins technologies: the Continuum™ Cone, FST™, Biomimetic Suspension and midrange decoupling, the latter ensuring minimal interference from the operation of the loudspeaker’s bass drivers.
Aluminium Top-Plate:
Featuring the significantly upgraded cabinet design from the 801 D4 Signature, the 801 Abbey Road Limited Edition includes an optimised aluminium top section for even greater stiffness. The same design also provides a perfect mounting point for all-new Leather by Connolly detailing, with luxurious full-grain red leather to complement the Vintage Walnut cabinet
Upgraded Crossovers:
Like the 801 D4 Signature the 801 Abbey Road Limited Edition uses upgraded rear-mounted crossovers fitted to stiff aluminium spines. This isolates the sensitive capacitors from the unwanted effects of air pressure within the enclosure and makes for a very effective heatsink to ensure optimum performance when in use
Leather by Connolly:
The 801 Abbey Road Limited Edition features an optimised aluminium top-plate, covered in a red Leather by Connolly trim that references both the control room in Studio Two, arguably the world’s most legendary individual studio space, and the red leather chairs used by generations of performers across all of Abbey Road’s iconic studios
