Bowers & Wilkins Panorama

Panorama
Widescreen for your ears

Bring the excitement of cinema-like surround sound to your living room with Panorama – the best TV sound bar money can buy. Easy to install, and simple to connect to a whole range of home entertainment devices, Panorama will transform your TV into a powerful home theatre system, making movies, music and games sound better than ever before. And all from just one streamlined speaker.

The perfect partner for your TV
Thanks to high definition and other advances in flat-screen technology, we’re used to seeing images on our TVs that are sharper and more lifelike than ever. What’s missing is sound. The built-in speakers in LCD and plasma TVs don’t get close to conveying the richness of movie sound in the way we’re meant to hear it. So even with the best image quality in the world, we’re only getting half the picture. The Panorama sound bar fills in the gap, bringing true home theatre, multi-channel surround sound to your TV. With Panorama, you’ll be experiencing all the power and complexity of movie sound in glorious, lifelike detail. In other words, your TV will sound as good as it looks.

Surround sound from one speaker
How can one speaker possibly replicate the thrillingly three-dimensional effect of being in a cinema, with lifelike sound coming from every angle? In fact, the answer’s all around you. Panorama’s concealed drive units use the walls of your room to guide sound around your viewing area. Multiple sound channels are directed in concentrated beams towards wall surfaces, which then reflect back to the listener, mimicking the effect of a multi-speaker surround sound system. The sound bar’s ingenious design even incorporates its own built-in powerful subwoofers and amplifier, so there’s more than enough bass to handle the biggest TV movie effects without the need for a separate subwoofer. You’ll be surrounded by sound – not speakers.

Brilliance from any angle
Movies are made to be enjoyed with others, so it’s good to know that Panorama’s amazing sound can be experienced by as many people as possible at the same time. The sound bar has a wider ‘sweet spot’ than conventional surround systems, which means you’re free to place the speaker in a range of different positions to suit your listening environment, without compromising on sound quality.

With Panorama, no-one needs to miss out on the full surround sound home cinema experience – no matter the shape of the room, the size of your audience, or where they’re sitting.

Where cinema sound is born
If you need any proof that B&W understand movie sound, just ask the sound engineers at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California. The control room at Skywalker Sound is the place where Hollywood puts music and sound to blockbuster movies. It’s probably the most advanced multi-channel listening environment in the world. Naturally it uses the world’s most advanced reference speakers – the 800 Series, designed by B&W. Many of the technologies and design principles behind Panorama were derived directly from this very same speaker. So for a sound bar capable of revealing cinema sound as it was meant to be heard, you can trust B&W. The people who make movies already do.

A sound bar for music lovers
Music is important. You know it, we know it. After all, we wouldn’t have spent more than 40 years developing and refining some of the world’s most advanced acoustic technologies if we didn’t feel passionate about music. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that Panorama isn’t just a great speaker for movies and games. It performs brilliantly as a stereo music player too. Far from compromising on music-playing ability, we’ve made sure that Panorama benefits from the same technologies featured in our audiophile hi fi speakers. Whether you’re into Mozart or Metallica, Panorama will take your enjoyment of music to a whole new level.

From the studio to your living room
The advanced technologies that make Panorama such a good stereo performer are used every day by recording studios all over the world to monitor the recording of music. Panorama shares many features with B&W’s legendary 800 Series speaker, used by Abbey Road Studios as their reference speaker of choice since the early 1980s. Sound engineers depend on the speaker for its near-flawless reproduction, safe in the knowledge that what they hear in the studio is as close as possible to what the musicians are playing. With Panorama, you can bring the same painstaking attention to acoustic detail out of the studio and into your own home.

Connect to anything
It’s easy to connect any kind of music-playing device to Panorama, making it the hub of your music-playing life. Simply plug your CD player or MP3 player into the sound bar and you’re ready to go. Panorama will even link to wireless base stations, so you can stream music remotely from your PC. And the best part is that, because Panorama is a stand-alone speaker with its own internal amplification, there’s no need for any separate amplifier, or any other external accessories. Simplicity itself.