Bowers & Wilkins WM2 Outdoor Speakers, Pearl White, w/ Brackets

Bowers & Wilkins WM2 Weatherproof Monitors in Pearl White, Brackets Included

A pair of Bowers & Wilkins weatherproof monitors in Pearl White, complete with their factory wall brackets, in a state of preservation that is genuinely uncommon on a speaker built to be left outside.

Condition

Start with the condition, because on this kind of speaker it is the whole story. Outdoor speakers are almost never retired for how they sound. They are retired for how they look: sun turns a white cabinet chalky and yellow, freeze-thaw works away at the seams, and grilles bloom with rust or mildew. Pearl White shows every one of those more plainly than black ever would. This pair grades Very Good, which on an outdoor speaker means somebody looked after them, and it is the difference between a set you are pleased to mount where guests can see it and a set you mount because it was cheap.

The Sound

The second reason to want them is that B&W did not design a weatherproof box and then find a driver to fit it. The bass and midrange unit is a 130 mm woven fibreglass cone, the same material philosophy the company applies to its indoor loudspeakers, crossed over at 3.5 kHz to a 25 mm dome. Sensitivity is 87 dB and the nominal impedance is 8 ohms, which is to say it will run happily off the B speaker terminals of any receiver you already own, without a dedicated amplifier and without a distribution box.

Built for Weather

Everything about the cabinet is built for the weather rather than the living room. The housing is a moulded polymer shell rather than veneered MDF, so it does not swell, split or delaminate when the humidity swings. Behind the grille, the port is angled so that rainwater cannot find its way into the enclosure while the port still does its acoustic job of extending the bass. The mounting hardware and fixings are specified throughout to resist corrosion, and the terminal caps screw down tight so there is nothing for wind to rattle.

The Bracket

The bracket is the part that gets overlooked until you go to buy a pair without them. Each speaker comes with its own B&W bracket, which carries both slots and keyhole fixings: the slots let you reposition slightly while you are getting the pair level, and the keyholes let you lift the speaker off the wall entirely at the end of the season or when you move. The bracket takes the speaker either horizontally or vertically, and the cable routes through a cut-out in the centre of the bracket so no wire is visible between the wall and the terminals. Once mounted, slackening the two knobs lets you swivel the speaker to aim it at where people actually sit, and then re-tighten by hand.

Radique’s Take

It is worth saying plainly that this is not only an outdoor speaker. A speaker engineered to shrug off humidity is the right answer in several rooms indoors where a conventional cabinet slowly fails: a bathroom, a kitchen, a workshop, a garage, a covered porch, a boat house or a finished basement that runs damp. At 9 inches tall and 6.6 lbs it mounts on a wall or sits on a shelf, and the same bracket does both jobs.

A properly engineered pair of outdoor speakers from a company that does not build many of them, in the finish most people are looking for, with the brackets still included and in condition that is the exception rather than the rule. Available for pickup in Kanata, or shipped across Canada and internationally — we have sent equipment to fifteen countries in the past year, each piece packed in-house in 275 lb test double-wall boxes. Live shipping rates for your address are calculated at checkout. Backed by Radique Audio’s Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and our Perpetual Trade-Back Program. Available for audition by appointment in Kanata.

Bowers & Wilkins WM2 Weatherproof Monitors in Pearl White, Brackets Included Specifications

• Type: Two-way vented-box weatherproof monitor
• Drive units: One 25 mm (1 in) high-frequency dome, one 130 mm (5 in) woven fibreglass cone bass/midrange
• Frequency range: -6 dB at 60 Hz and 22,000 Hz
• Frequency response: 72 Hz – 20,000 Hz, plus or minus 3 dB on reference axis
• Dispersion: Within 2 dB of reference axis response, over a 40 degree horizontal arc and a 10 degree vertical arc
• Sensitivity: 87 dB spl (2.83 V, 1 m)
• Harmonic distortion: Under 1 percent, 95 Hz – 20,000 Hz, second and third harmonics at 90 dB, 1 m
• Nominal impedance: 8 ohms, minimum 3.0 ohms
• Crossover frequency: 3.5 kHz
• Recommended amplifier power: 25 – 90 watts into 8 ohms on unclipped programme
• Maximum recommended cable impedance: 0.2 ohms
• Cabinet: Moulded weatherproof polymer with grille and angled drainage port
• Mounting: B&W bracket included with each speaker, slot and keyhole fixings, horizontal or vertical, swivelling, centre cable cut-out
• Finish: Pearl White
• Dimensions: (Width x Height x Depth) 6.4 x 9.0 x 7.4 inches (162 x 230 x 187 mm)
• Weight: 6.6 lbs (3 kg) each

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