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Bowers & Wilkins (B & W), a world leading maker of extremely sophisticated acoustic products has recently unveiled its new powerful device called Panorama at Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2009 in Las Vegas last month. With this newbie the company has entered into the sound bar vertical field. The Panorama is a one box marvellously designed solution to boost the acoustic capability of high definition televisions. As it’s created by B & W there is no doubt with regards to its sound quality, performance and reliability.

The Panorama sound bar is the result of the intensive research by B&W’s engineering team in UK. Staying true to the company’s penchant for designing very unique speakers, like the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin speaker, the Panorma Sound Bar has a truly innovative shape and style.The best feature of this sound bar is it does not require any dedicated or external sub-woofer to produce impressively low frequencies. The Panorama ahs got a plethora of drive units and uses DSP (Digital Signal Processing) technology to offer real time surround sound and bass.

The centre channel section has got five drive units and an aluminium dome tweeter. The company has used its famous Nautilus Tube technology and has also imparted a pair of both midrange drivers and woofers. To bolster the device’s power six Class D amps are used to deliver a total output of 175 watts. According to the company this type of design is the key behind the quality bass. For seamless connectivity the Panorama is blessed with a pair of optical and one coaxial digital audio input plus two stereo analogue inputs. It works best with the LCDs and Plasmas displays of at least 37 inches or more.