B&W CM8 Floorstanding Speakers – Wenge

Here we have a pair of the well regarded CM8 floorstanding loudspeakers from British experts Bowers & Wilkins. They are in good fully working condition noting a couple of small marks on the top of one cabinet – please see photographs. They will be supplied in original factory packaging and come with grilles, manual plus our normal three month warranty.
Bowers & Wilkins Say….
No artificial additives. That’s been our approach to sound quality from the very beginning. We’ve taken it to a new level with the CM Series. By using only the most refined drive unit technologies and removing any unnecessary details, we’ve been able to hone each speaker down to its purest, most elegant essentials. So nothing gets between you and the true sound of the original recording.
It’s one thing to hear music. It’s something else to really experience it – to close your eyes and feel as though the artist is there, performing in the room with you. At Bowers & Wilkins, we’ve dedicated nearly half a century to creating these experiences. Listen to our speakers, and you’ll discover depth and detail in your music you never knew existed – from the scrape of a plectrum on a guitar string to the sense of emotion and atmosphere in a live performance. We call it true sound. And you can experience it yourself, with the CM Series.
With TV and films, what you see is only half the story. You might have the widest screen and the sharpest resolution. But without great sound to complete the picture, the sense of atmosphere and excitement we expect from movies will always be missing. With the CM Series, everything changes. Suddenly, you’re not just watching the action. You’re right in the heart of it, tap dancing in the rain with Gene Kelly or roaring through the streets of Gotham City with Christian Bale. Isn’t it time you brought the sound of the cinema home?
To capture the spine-tingling subtleties in music, you need a tweeter capable of precision and control. Combining some of our most advanced acoustic technologies with a high quality, first-order crossover, the CM Series provides sweeter high frequencies than you’d ever imagine possible. And for the top speaker in the range, we’ve introduced something very special: the tweeter-on-top design found in our flagship 800 Series Diamond.
Creating a pure midrange sound demands the right kind of speaker material, with just the right combination of stiffness and flexibility. Step forward Kevlar®. It’s resistant to bullets, and just as good at stopping distorting speaker cone resonances dead in their tracks. Combine it with high-end technological refinements like FST, and you’ve got a midrange that’s anything but middle of the road.
It’s one thing delivering powerful bass: it’s quite another doing so while preserving the precision and detail essential to the overall richness of the sound. With the CM Series, longer voice coils and larger magnets help the speaker deliver a prodigious amount of bass impact with complete control and minimal distortion. Combine this with rock-solid drive unit construction, and you’ve got the kind of bass you need to bring music and movies roaring to life.
While sound is always our first priority, we know 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 a range of high-quality finishes and a painstaking attention to design detail, the CM Series will fit harmoniously and elegantly into the home environment.
The CM Series grilles attach magnetically, so there are no grille mounting features to spoil the lines of the CM’s façade. A simple touch that makes a big aesthetic difference.
An elegantly proportioned, slimmed down version of the award-winning CM9, the true three-way CM8 will appeal to discerning customers who demand the very best sound quality, but have limited space in which to achieve it. An FST driver reveals layers of breathtaking detail in the midrange, while two 130mm paper/Kevlar bass drivers ensure deep, powerful bass. Like all the models in the CM Series, the CM8 uses crossovers of remarkable simplicity and quality.
Features:
Nautilus™ tube loaded aluminium dome tweeter
Kevlar® brand fibre cone FST midrange
Flowport™
Specifications:
Description: 3-way vented-box system
Drive Units: 1 x ø25 mm aluminium dome 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: 69 Hz – 22 kHz ±3 dB on reference axis
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: 8.0 Ω (minimum 3.0 Ω)
Crossover Frequency: 350 Hz, 4 kHz; Bass unit 3rd-order low pass; Midrange 2nd-order high-pass, 1st-order low-pass; Tweeter 1st-order high-pass
Recommended Amplifier Power: 30 W – 150 W into 8 Ω on unclipped programme
Max. Recommended Cable Impedance: 0.1 Ω
Dimensions: 960 (H) x 165 (W) x 252 (D) mm
Net Weight: 19.5 kg