Jaguar introduced at Detroit earlier this month the new direction of the brand with the C-XF concept car. This four seater sedan opens a whole bunch of new features that we find in the future Jaguar, including the audio system developed by Bower & Wilkins.
B & W for the first time in car
Bower & Wilkins, a British manufacturer of speaker better known by the diminutive B & W, was attacked for the first time since its birth in 1966 in car audio, as did Dynaudio, Mark Levinson, and Bang & Olufsen recently. There is thus an increase in the interest of major brands of hifi house for the car stereo.
The C-XF is a concept car in the original sense of the word: this car will never be produced as is. It is a pity indeed! We love the general line of the car, despite the fact that it is a four-door sedan, gives it an aggression that is far from cut back on all sports. This is essentially the shell which is responsible with these lights that give it a look of real félin.Les 21 inch wheels are not there for nothing, visually speaking.
A new way to take the road
But it is inside where it all happens. As is the trend, the stripping is extreme, no buttons or unnecessary comodos. At Jaguar, we wanted to create a true staging at boot of the car to take this moment so important. When you start the car, the potentiometer multi-function center console is discovered, the band with bright blue lights in the cockpit, the sky blue roof lights and also a flash is projected to cover the front of the car.
The door handles are within cons doors, it will suffice to touch so they reappear. The central area of the dashboard with the Jaguar logo rotates on itself to display the 16:9 LCD multifunction buttons and a few essential. The electronics developed by Alpine uses a screen "Dual View". That is to say that the driver and the passenger can watch two different things on the screen through their different viewing angle. The driver can benefit from the navigation system while the passenger watching a movie on DVD.
The technologies range B & W N800
For its first foray into car, B & W has not done things by half. The best technology of the brand, those found on the N800 series, have been adapted to the automotive environment. Everything first diamond dome tweeters in the upright windshield. Technology with a Nautilus tube decompression in the back of the tweeter has been repeated here, but in the form of a spiral, to save space of course.
Mediums are placed on top of door, behind a metal grid in the drawing feature. The little logo Bower & Wilkins is listed on the grid. Regarding the serious B & W has put guns in serious door (Bass Beam) that are invisible but which can reproduce the bass frequencies to the way a subwoofer, but in front of the vehicle.
Media honeycomb
The center channel speaker, as the speakers in the rear speakers are mounted on said honeycomb Micro-Matrix and derivatives of the internal construction of the speakers B & W This gives them an inert base to prevent transmission of harmful vibrations to the sound reproduction. The center channel is devoted to a Kevlar cone midrange inverted for better dispersion of the sound. There are two of these medium-specific ends of the rear deck. Finally, a subwoofer is taking place at the center of the rear.
The assembly is controlled by a DSP that moves the soundstage forward or toward the center of the car, depending on whether one wants to focus on driver and front passenger or rear seat passengers. Operating in multi-channel processor that can also reproduce real environments consistent for all passengers simultaneously.
Home HiFi manufacturers give their letters of nobility to the Car HiFi
HiFi The drive was often frowned upon and associated with the tuning and other competitions big sound. It took the builders of HiFi speakers for the home are interested in the car for the general public realizes that we can do great things in the car in terms of high fidelity. We look forward to listening to future systems B & W car which is found in the next Jaguar, even among other manufacturers.
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