B&W 702 S2 Floorstanding Speakers – White

A nice pair of these superb floorstanding loudspeakers from British specialist maker B&W. They are in very good condition noting a blemish on one of the plinths, and come in replacement factory packaging with grilles plus our regular three month warranty.
Bowers & Wilkins Say….
Bring the breathtaking clarity and definition of studio sound home with the new 700 Series. Replacing the CM Series, the range combines studio-grade 800 Series Diamond technologies with purpose-built innovations to elevate home audio to an entirely new level. And all this from room-friendly cabinets designed to fit beautifully into your home environment. The new 700 Series. Inspired by recording studios. Made for living rooms.
Featuring a Carbon Dome™ tweeter in a solid-body housing and a decoupled Continuum™ midrange, the 700 Series’ flagship floorstander brings studio-quality sound to your home audio set up. The speaker relays textural details with goosebump-inducing accuracy, making even largescale recordings sound stunningly lifelike.
A great speaker does more than allow you to hear music. It acts as a bridge – a way to close the divide between listener and performance. Listen to 700 Series speakers, and music feels alive. You discover details you never noticed before. You can place every instrument, every note, every intake of breath, with flawless accuracy. You can sense the emotion in the room. Suddenly, you’re no longer just listening to a recorded performance. You’re right there, with the performer in the studio.
The 700 Series is an entirely new range of speakers. Compared with the outgoing CM Series, every transducer has changed and radically improved. To do this, we’ve borrowed some of the most advanced technologies from our flagship 800 Series Diamond, adapting them to suit a more attainable price point. And we’ve introduced entirely new technologies, designed specifically for this range.
The 702 speakers employ solid body tweeters, a high performance design feature found previously only on the 800 Series Diamond. Its acoustically optimised form is milled from a solid block of aluminium, forming a structure that’s exceptionally inert and resistant to resonances.
Carbon Dome tweeters are a brand new technology purpose-built for the 700 Series. Delivering a dramatic improvement on the aluminium Double-dome tweeter, they raise the breakup threshold to 47kHz, for pinpoint imaging accuracy and detail.
First introduced with the 800 Series Diamond, the Continuum cone represents the biggest step-change in midrange performance since Kevlar®. Its woven coated material provides highly controlled break-up, resulting in a more open, neutral midrange.
The three floor-standing loudspeakers in the range employ a new FEA-optimised aluminium chassis for the midrange drivers. This new design is stiffer than the zinc chassis of the CM Series, for improved control and cleaner midrange presentation.
The new Aerofoil Profile bass cone has the same variable thickness design as the bass cones in 800 Series Diamond speakers. Developed using advanced computer modelling techniques, it provides stiffness and rigidity where it’s needed most, for deep and dynamic bass.
The midrange drivers in the floor-standers also feature a decoupled design, adapted from a similar system in the 800 Series Diamond. Decoupling reduces cabinet colouration, and further improves midrange clarity.
Specifications:
Drive units: 1 x 25 mm Decoupled Carbon Dome high-frequency; 1 x 150 mm Continuum cone FST midrange; 3 x 165 mm Aerofoil Profile bass
Frequency range: – 6dB at 28 Hz and 33 kHz
Frequency response: 46 Hz – 28 kHz ± 3 dB
Sensitivity: 90 dB spl (2.83 Vrms, 1 m)
Nominal impedance: 8 Ω (minimum 3.1 Ω)
Recommended amplifier power: 30 W – 300 W into 8 Ω on unclipped programme
Dimensions: 994 (H) x 200 (W) x 337 (D) mm
Net weight: 29.5 kg

For a review from Hi-Fi Choice magazine please click here