Note to PC speaker makers: don’t force me to use yet another USB port when I have a perfectly good headphone socket on my notebook. I know that some audio-outs (and their preceding circuitry) are junk, but if I’m paying $500 for a pair of your computer speakers, it’s likely I have a fairly decent computer to hook them up to.
Ok, rant over, and apart from sucking up a USB port to feed the music directly into their own digital/analog converter, the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin MM-1 looks to be a rather sweet speaker. The Zeppelins are actually a pair of shrunken hi-fi speakers instead of the more common sub-and-satellite setup, which means you get “the full spectrum of frequencies”. B&W (now you recognize the brand, right?) has also tweaked the circuitry to turn these into near-field monitor speakers, which means they sound better close-up like studio monitors, instead of from a distance like most hi-fi speakers.
B&W has also incorporated its “Nautilus tweeter”, which is not an underwater Twitter poster but a cone-shaped tube behind the tweeter taken from its iconic shell-shaped speaker of the same name. This, according to B&W, “dampens resonance and produces purer high frequency sounds.”
We’re not sure that the average listener could tell the difference, seeing as we pump compressed MP3s out of our computers, but if nothing else they’ll look good on your desktop. And they even have a 3.5mm input jack, for whiners like me. Due February 2010.
Ok, rant over, and apart from sucking up a USB port to feed the music directly into their own digital/analog converter, the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin MM-1 looks to be a rather sweet speaker. The Zeppelins are actually a pair of shrunken hi-fi speakers instead of the more common sub-and-satellite setup, which means you get “the full spectrum of frequencies”. B&W (now you recognize the brand, right?) has also tweaked the circuitry to turn these into near-field monitor speakers, which means they sound better close-up like studio monitors, instead of from a distance like most hi-fi speakers.
B&W has also incorporated its “Nautilus tweeter”, which is not an underwater Twitter poster but a cone-shaped tube behind the tweeter taken from its iconic shell-shaped speaker of the same name. This, according to B&W, “dampens resonance and produces purer high frequency sounds.”
We’re not sure that the average listener could tell the difference, seeing as we pump compressed MP3s out of our computers, but if nothing else they’ll look good on your desktop. And they even have a 3.5mm input jack, for whiners like me. Due February 2010.
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