B&W CM1 Standmount Speakers - Gloss Black

No artificial additives That’s been our approach to sound quality from the very beginning. It’s exactly the same with the new CM Series. By using our most refined drive unit technologies, developed for reference-standard speakers like the 800 Series, we’ve been able to hone the speaker down to its purest essentials. The CM Series uses crossovers of remarkable simplicity and quality, so what you hear is that much closer to the sound of the original recording. In its functional perfection and understated elegance, it’s nothing less than a masterpiece. Pure and simple.
There’s no room for dreams in business That’s what we’re told. B&W is different. Its success stems from the dream of founder John Bowers to create the perfect loudspeaker - one that neither adds to nor takes away from the recorded performance. And, in the laboratories and listening rooms of our dedicated Research Establishment in southern England, that’s been our goal from day one. The design breakthroughs we’ve made and the technologies we’ve developed along the way have helped to create award-winning loudspeakers at every level of the market.
By working with respected studios like Abbey Road, we’ve satisfied the world’s most demanding listeners. The dream is our business. And today, through networks such as our newly-founded Society of Sound, we’re finding performers, technicians and customers who share it. We’re getting closer all the time.
Treble - The tweeter in the CM Series is tuned to perfection - and we’ve made sure the crossover sings in perfect harmony. It’s a partnership that produces sweeter, truer high frequencies than you’d ever imagine possible.
Hidden from view inside the cabinet, the crossover is a feature of a speaker that often gets overlooked. Surprising, really - not just because it does the essential job of dividing the source signal into bass, midrange and treble, but also because the way it’s constructed is one of the best indicators of the quality of the speaker’s mechanical components. The thing to look for is simplicity. The rule is, the better the mechanical design of the drive units, the simpler the electronic design of the crossover can afford to be. And the quality of CM Series drive units is such that we’ve been able to make the speaker’s crossover one of the simplest we’ve ever produced.
The link between the CM crossover and tweeter is a case in point. The CM Series’ superb aluminium dome tweeter has a tube-loaded design - an innovation first introduced by our legendary Nautilus™ speaker that helps to absorb and dampen the rearward travelling sonic vibrations that can cause sound coloration. The fragility and subtlety of the tweeter signal demands the most sensitive treatment, but when you have technology this good, there’s no need for any electronic jiggery pokery to get it right. The CM’s first-order tweeter filter contains just a single component of the very highest quality, carefully selected after painstaking listening tests.
Midrange - Kevlar®: it’s impervious 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.
Kevlar ® has been a B&W hallmark since 1974, when our lab tests first revealed that the very same qualities that make it so good at repelling gunfire also make it the perfect material for midrange speaker cones. Impregnated with a stiffening resin, and then treated with a polymer coat that seals the fibre and adds damping, a Kevlar ® cone maintains a more constant dispersion pattern at all frequencies in its range than any other. The result? Far fewer delayed, time-smearing sounds, and an exceptionally clean, precise midrange.
For a while, we thought that Kevlar ® was as good as it could possibly get. But since then we’ve added something that makes the midrange sound even better. The FST™ (or “fixed suspension transducer”, to give it its proper name) enhances the properties of Kevlar® by absorbing bending waves travelling to the edge of the cone, further improving response times and the integrity of sound transmission. It’s a highly refined piece of technology we reserve for our most advanced speakers, like the 800 Series reference speaker used at Abbey Road. And now it’s come to the CM Series, in the midrange of the CM7, the CM9, and the CM Centre 2.
Finishes - We’ve paid a lot of attention to what goes on inside a CM Series speaker. So it would have been a shame to forget 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 looks every bit as fabulous as it sounds.

Features

• Nautilus™ tube loaded aluminium dome tweeter
• Kevlar ® brand fibre cone bass/midrange
• Flowport™

Description: 2-way vented-box system
Drive Units: 1 x ø 25 mm aluminium dome high-frequency; 1 x ø 130 mm woven Kevlar® cone bass/ midrange
Frequency Range: - 6 dB at 45 Hz and 50 kHz
Frequency Response: 55 Hz - 22 kHz ±3 dB on reference axis
Dispersion: Within 2 dB of reference response; Horizontal: over 60° arc; Vertical: over 10° arc
Sensitivity: 84 dB
Harmonic Distortion: 2nd and 3rd harmonics (90 dB, 1 m); <1% 110 Hz - 22 kHz
Nominal Impedance: 8 Ω (minimum 5.1 Ω)
Crossover Frequency: 4 kHz
Recommended Amplifier Power: 30 W - 100 W into 8 Ω on unclipped programme
Max. Recommended Cable Impedance: 0.1 Ω
Dimensions: 280 (H) x 165 (W) x 255 (D) mm
Weight: 6.7 kg

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