B & W Speakers
The B & W speaker company was started by John Bowers and his lifelong friend Peter Hayward in 1966. The company was named B&W Electronics soon after its inception. It is the love and passion John Bowers had towards music that drove him to manufacture his own B & W Speakers. Born in 1923, John started his career as an operation executive in the occupied Europe during the war. Armed with degree in electronics and radio-transmission, John began his second career by working in a retail electronic store. He loved to go to music concerts and enjoyed classical music as well. But he was not content with the quality of speaker sound. This dissatisfaction led to the birth of BW speakers. In the initial years, both partners John and Peter decided to invest the proceeds of B & W speaker sales into the research work – a wise investment. In 1976, B W speakers company created an R&D Department where an acoustic specialist and electronic engineers were employed to design and test a B and W speaker that could produce clearest of sound and for making even faintest of sound element audible to the listeners.
Finally, the B & W Speaker system was launched in the year 1979. These B W speakers gained so much popularity in the world of music that they became a must-have speakers for many classical recording studios like EMI Abbey Road, Deutsche Gramophone and Decca. But behind the music passionate mind, John bore the business mind as well. He did not want to put B W speakers for sale in the home market only; he explored the opportunity to export them as well. Soon he developed the overseas markets and the BW speakers made their presence known in the world over. Even his successor Joe Atkins continued his good work and today BW has grown multifold.
Though the B W speaker price list presents an endless series of quality B W audio speakers, the one however that rules the business are the B & W Nautilus speakers. These speakers are the result of relentless efforts and research work of Steyning Research Establishment for more than 5 years. The moment the company put these B & W speakers for sale, and they made inroads to the heart of the people around the world. The technology used in these speakers was then deployed in the other B&W products like B & W in ceiling speakers etc.
