B&W CM8 S2 Floorstanding Speakers - Piano Black

With the new CM Series, beauty is so much more than skin deep. Of course, with their clean lines, high-quality finishes and lack of superfluous detail, these are some of the most elegant speakers we’ve ever built. But look beneath the surface, and you’ll find technologies that set new standards for acoustic performance in the home, revealing unprecedented levels of musical detail and nuance for speakers of this class. You won’t believe how beautiful your music can sound.
Less is more. That’s been our approach to speaker design from the very beginning. We’ve taken it to new levels with the CM Series. Each speaker is constructed using only a few high quality components, carefully selected after exhaustive listening tests. By leaving out anything unnecessary, we’ve made sure that nothing gets between you and the sound the artist intended you to hear.
As with a musical instrument, the sound of a speaker depends partly on the quality of its materials, and the care that went into its design and construction. The CM Series’ cabinets are made using high-quality materials such as real wood veneers, while concealed screw fixings preserve a clean, uncluttered façade. These design features aren’t just for show: solid cabinet construction and unbroken surfaces all contribute to a sound that’s free of resonance and reflection. CM8 S2 is the most room-friendly floorstander in the range: a speaker with a slimmed-down profile designed to fit comfortably into most living rooms. Despite its leaner proportions, the CM8 S2 delivers amazing clarity, detail and realism due to technologies it shares with its larger siblings, such as an FST midrange and Decoupled Double Dome tweeter.
The new CM Series will transform your enjoyment of music, revealing all the depth and detail that ordinary speakers miss. That’s thanks to audiophile design innovations originally pioneered for our flagship 800 Series Diamond reference speakers, combined with new technologies developed especially for the range.
Treble - Music depends on nuance. The sweep of a brush on a cymbal, the scrape of a plectrum on guitar strings, even the atmosphere of the room in which the performance took place - it’s this kind of detail that gives music a sense of genuine presence and life. To capture these subtleties, we’ve upgraded the design of the tweeters throughout the CM Series. Every speaker in the range now incorporates Decoupled Double Dome tweeters.
Midrange - Conveying the emotion in a vocal performance demands the right kind of midrange cone material, with the ideal balance of stiffness and flexibility. Step forward Kevlar®. It’s resistant to bullets, and just as good at stopping distorting resonances dead in their tracks. Combine it with high-end technological refinements like decoupled drive units and FST, and you’ve got a midrange that’s anything but middle of the road.
Bass - It’s one thing to deliver powerful bass: it’s quite another to do so while preserving the precision and detail essential to faithful sound reproduction. With the CM Series, longer voice coils and larger magnets help the speaker deliver a prodigious amount of bass impact with maximum control and minimal distortion. Combine this with rock-solid drive unit construction, and you’ve got bass capable of wonderful depth and musicality.
While sound is always our first priority, we recognise that a speaker is also a piece of furniture. So while we’ve paid a lot of attention to what goes on inside a CM Series speaker, we haven’t forgotten about what’s happening on the outside. Thanks to high-quality finishes and painstaking attention to design detail, the CM Series will fit harmoniously and elegantly into the home environment.

Features

Nautilus tube loaded Decoupled Double Dome aluminium tweeter
Kevlar® brand fibre cone FST midrange
Flowport™

Description: 3-way vented-box system
Drive Units:
1 x ø25 mm Decoupled Double Dome aluminium high-frequency
1 x ø130 mm woven Kevlar® cone FST midrange
2 x ø130 mm paper/Kevlar® cone bass
Frequency Range: - 6 dB at 43 Hz and 50 kHz
Frequency Response: 48 Hz - 28 kHz, ± 3 dB
Dispersion: Within 2 dB of reference response
Horizontal: over 60º arc; Vertical: over 10º arc
Sensitivity: 88 dB spl (2.83 V, 1 m)
Harmonic Distortion: 2nd and 3rd harmonics (90 dB, 1 m)
< 1% 100 Hz - 22 kHz, < 0.5% 300 Hz - 20 kHz
Nominal Impedance: 8 Ω (minimum 3.0 Ω)
Crossover Frequency: 350 Hz, 4 kHz
Recommended Amplifier Power: 30 W - 150 W into 8 V
Max. Recommended Cable Impedance: 0.1 Ω
Dimensions: 924 (H) x 165 (W) x 252 (D) mm
Weight: 19.5 kg

Turnaround

Orders will usually dispatched within 2 working days of receiving cleared payment.

Shipping Rates

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Carriers

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