Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus Loudspeaker (Pair)

REDEFINING SOUND

The long, tapered damping tubes were a revolution, allowing the drive units to work optimally by gently absorbing stay energy.

CRAFTING A CLASSIC

Nautilus is a hand-built to order, alongside the 800 series Diamond^TM, by a dedicated specialist team in our Worthing factory.

MAKING MAGIC

Constructing the complex shapes and precision drive units demands decades of experience and exacting attention to detail.

SHAPED BY SOUND

At a glance, you can see Nautilus is no ordinary speaker, and after almost a quarter of century it still defines high-end audio.

INFINITE COLORS

Nautilus comes in three standard colors: silver, black and midnight blue. But, as befits such a unique speaker, we also offer a special service that can match any color you specify.

SETTING THE STANDARD FOR THE FUTURE

The striking spirals and tubes of Nautilus came from our research into making speaker drive units behave as we wanted: this Nautilus Tube™ technology, for which we won a Queen's Award for Innovation, is now found in almost every speaker we make.

THINKING BEYOND THE BOX

Nautilus is quite unlike a conventional box speaker: to package our unique Nautilus tubes for use in the home, our designers developed the striking, and space-efficient, spiral form from which the speaker takes its name.

BUT WHY THE NAUTILUS TUBE?

We want to hear a speaker driver, not its side-effects – conventional boxes contain sound from the rear of the driver, but bring their own problems. Nautilus tapering tubes soak up wayward energy and reduce resonances to the point of insignificance.