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Inside Bowers & Wilkins' flagship speaker factory

Feb 27, 2020
My name is Andy Kerr. I'm the director of product marketing and communications at Thousand Workers. We are here, our

factory

on Dale Road in Worthing, on the south coast of England, where we produce our Mystery Eight Diamond range of

speaker

s alongside our

flagship

Nautilus range. "We are taking everything from the initial raw material, so that the bass level is the beach and the words of the edge steering wheel that we use to form the fundamentals of the cabinet and from the beginning we are working ourselves to cut it to the size we need" . We are doing everything from layering, gluing, bonding, forming the cabinet, pressing it into the right shape, sanding and prepping it, painting it, polishing it, getting it to the appropriate standards.
inside bowers wilkins flagship speaker factory
This is a single layer of each, which you can obviously see. That single layer and as you can see by itself it's a very flexible thing, but of course what we're trying to do here is create rigidity in our

speaker

casing, to achieve that what we do is use multiple layers and use them. those layers in opposite grain orientations, so the result is a bit like an engineered wood floor in that by building those layers and opposing the grain structure and each additional layer you add, the structure gets a different difference at this point here what we have is the rat shaped curvature that comes out and is off in this particular case, as you can see if I invert it, you can see very clearly that we have that scalloped shaped structure.
inside bowers wilkins flagship speaker factory

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The next part of the project is to take this to machine this. on the CNC and smooth everything out to create the piece which can then be moved forward to become the top of a speaker, so this is the die assembly assembled, what it now requires is the mental components that break it down into the front end. to make sure that they're maximizing the instructor even more and then what we can do is take this and slide it into the rat forum with the speaker, which just requires a little tool called a spreader that essentially grabs the edges back. of the speaker and separates it very, very slightly so we can slide it in, then we can form it all into place close without backing up the gear cabinet and we have our structure complete.
inside bowers wilkins flagship speaker factory
All the work we are now on is the polishing part of the machine. of the process, which is the final stage of preparing the cabinet, preparing it before it goes down to our line for final assembly, one of the trained operators that work here will work on this using very high quality polishing materials that are used in details automotive and the job takes as long as it needs to, so depending on the size of the speaker, it's kind of the main criterion, in a cabinet of this size, it takes about an hour and a quarter or obviously it's polished very intensively and also all surfaces, so one of the things we're working on here is the process of applying paint to the turbine, the turbine head is the structural component on top of the echo house is our enclosure mid-range, so it's a single piece of aluminum, very, very heavy, very stiff, very tall.
inside bowers wilkins flagship speaker factory
Due to its complex shape and curvature, it is very difficult to apply the consistency of paint finish we want using a machine, so instead of using a manual process we use one of our highly trained paint guys who works exclusively doing this and nothing. more in prize money, so the ho2 ji3 is the second top model in what we call the 800 series diamond ring, which ranges in price from £4,500 a pair for a two-way model with bracket design called the 805 d 3 until the end. to a very large

flagship

model called the 800 d 3, which weighs twenty-two thousand five hundred pounds, a large three-way speaker, meaning it has a dedicated base section, a dedicated midrange section, and a high-frequency module in the back. top of the product.
This is the crossover, think of it as the electronic brain if you like the filter of big name speakers, so the job of this component is essentially to establish which signal should be sent to which of the transmission units within the speaker, so so that there are more conduction networks. are essentially the more complex the crossover needs to be now, in our opinion a simpler crossover produces a more effective result. A more complex crossover circuit will potentially risk losing more of the original signal, so if we keep it simple we can be closer to the integrity of the original signal.
It is a very strict way to do it. We have a dedicated facility in a small town called located about nine kilometers north of Wording and there are currently 38 engineers and researchers working there exclusively on what they are developing and working on the most extreme ways to push now as a larger design we don't have any real limitations on deadlines we don't have any real limitation on process and effort there they can do what they need to do so the cumulative weight of experience and knowledge is very fundamental to who we are and what we do, we really believe in what we do, we really like what we do and that's fundamentally, I think if you're going to produce a product that you care deeply about. and you are passionate about it, help if you like to come to earth

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