First contact
The small M1 are the size of small computer speakers. They are completely made of metal and they have an adjustable base so they can be used both horizontally and vertically. Traditionally the centre speaker will be placed horizontally so it can easily find a place above or below your screen. Without a doubt the eye for the finishing touch with this speaker is phenomenal. They even thought of a rotatable B&W logo. The materials you need to adjust each speaker is enclosed separately with every speaker. In every box you will also find a wall bracket so the speakers can be wall-mounted. An extra special plume is for the original way of leading the speaker cable into the speaker. In the base there are two small holes, just big enough for round 2.5 mm2 cables. The rubber bottom of the base can be removed and then you will find gold-plated and very high quality speaker clamps where the cable is almost automatically guided towards. A wonderful and discrete system. The whole is very compact and at first it probably makes you doubt its performance. But of course B&W wouldn’t do justice to itself with a poor satellite.
The highs come from a tweeter from the Nautilus series, so with a horn-shaped back. The mid woofers are small but powerful due to their long-stroke build and use of a new anti resonance plug. By also using a reflex port, a -6dB point of 55 Hz is realised which is phenomenal for such a compact system. The numbers are therefore also totally ok.
The PV1D just looks fabulous. Built with a pretty individual style because they are almost perfectly spherical. The bottom is slightly flattened and contains all necessary connections for a sub: the possibility to connect a pre-processor as well as a subwoofer line output, both the left and right channel connections are present, but there is also the possibility to connect to the speaker output of an integrated stereo amplifier. Also a 12V trigger point for integration is present as well as an RS232 interface. Along both sides of the sub you can see the potent 20-cm woofers which are responsible for the low octaves of the music and effects. The acoustic closed system is driven by 400W of class D amplifiers. A powerful DSP module which can be controlled through a touch panel on the sub itself or can be fully programmed via a PC is built in. The specifications are impressive, close to incredible. A -6 DB point of 6.5 Hz means that even the most extreme effects, under 20 Hz we can no longer speak of music, can be passed on. These effects are only felt and therefore require a considerable displacement of air.
