We’re not referring to crappy ‘blinged’ up products here where diamonds are used for garish decoration, but the use of synthetic diamonds to create a purer sound. Celebrating 40 years in the business, the diamond series is a two-way speaker with a Kevlar midrange bass driver housed in its cylindrical cabinet. Perched on top is the ‘crowning glory, a marble tube-loaded tweeter, whose dome is made from synthetic diamond. B&W claims that it delivers high frequencies with “jaw-dropping precision and clarity”. The company explained:
“No other material gets closer to the perfect behaviour of a hypothetical tweeter dome, one of infinite stiffness and zero mass. Created by crystallising a ‘carbon frost’ into the shape of the dome at temperatures approaching those of the sun’s surface, the diamond dome makes the sweetest-sounding tweeter you’ve ever heard.”
The series was designed by Kenneth Grange and, even if you don’t know who he is, you are likely to have used a Parker Pen, Intercity train, Kenwood food-mixer or Wilkinson Sword razor designed by him.
There will be only 1,000 pairs of these for sale from June and they’ll come with an equally jaw-dropping £11,000 price tag.
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