Bowers & Wilkins AM-1 Versatile Weather-Resistant Outdoor Loudspeaker

Description

This speaker features a robust 5-inch woven glass-fiber cone woofer paired with a 1-inch metal dome tweeter, combining to deliver clear, balanced sound across a wide frequency range. The woofer’s woven glass-fiber construction ensures durability and excellent rigidity, allowing it to produce tight, accurate bass and midrange tones. Complementing this, the metal dome tweeter handles the high frequencies with crispness and clarity, enhancing the overall audio detail.

Designed with an inverted driver array, the speaker optimizes sound dispersion by projecting audio more evenly overhead, which results in a wider and more immersive listening experience. This configuration is particularly effective in distributing sound across larger spaces, making it ideal for both indoor and outdoor environments.

The speaker’s fully sealed enclosure protects its internal components from dust and moisture, ensuring reliable performance and longevity in various weather conditions. This makes it a versatile choice for outdoor installations where exposure to the elements is a concern. With a recommended amplifier power range of 20 to 100 watts, the speaker is well-suited for a variety of audio setups, from smaller systems to more powerful configurations. Additionally, it offers adjustable mounting angles of up to 220 degrees, allowing precise positioning to tailor sound coverage to the space. For convenient and discreet installation, the speaker comes with a low-profile wall mount, which blends seamlessly into any setting while providing stable support.

Product Features

The Bowers & Wilkins AM-1 is a high-quality outdoor in-ceiling speaker designed specifically to enhance your outdoor audio experience with superb sound performance and durable construction. As part of Bowers & Wilkins’ architectural monitor range, this speaker is built with the brand’s signature commitment to excellent sound clarity, precision, and balanced audio reproduction, making it ideal for outdoor entertainment areas.

One of the key strengths of the AM-1 is its weather-resistant design, which allows it to be installed outdoors year-round without compromising performance. Whether it’s placed around the pool, patio, garden, or any outdoor living space, the speaker is engineered to withstand the effects of sun, rain, humidity, and temperature changes. This robust build ensures that you can enjoy consistent, high-quality sound regardless of the weather conditions.

The speaker’s design also focuses on ease of installation, featuring a simple mounting bracket system that allows for quick and secure setup. This means you can easily integrate the AM-1 into your outdoor environment, whether recessed into ceilings or mounted on walls, without complicated installations or bulky hardware. Sound-wise, the AM-1 delivers exceptional audio performance, capturing the nuance and detail of your favorite music with clarity and depth. Its architectural monitor configuration is engineered to disperse sound evenly throughout outdoor spaces, providing a rich, immersive listening experience whether you’re entertaining guests or relaxing alone.

The Bowers & Wilkins AM-1 is a versatile, weather-resistant outdoor loudspeaker designed for high-performance audio in challenging environments. Built with durability and audio fidelity in mind, it features a 2-way system enhanced by an Auxiliary Bass Radiator (ABR), delivering impressive low-end performance despite its compact size. The speaker incorporates a Nautilus™ tube-loaded 25mm aluminum dome tweeter for clean, extended high frequencies up to 50kHz, and a 130mm glassfiber cone bass/midrange driver, ensuring clear mids and robust bass response.

With a frequency range of 46Hz – 50kHz and a sensitivity of 86 dB, it provides accurate sound reproduction, especially when wall-mounted, which is its optimal setup. Its nominal impedance of 8 ohms and support for amplifier power between 20W and 100W make it compatible with a range of audio systems. With less than 1% total harmonic distortion in the critical listening range, the AM-1 stands out as a reliable and refined option for outdoor and indoor installations alike.

In summary, the Bowers & Wilkins AM-1 combines premium sound quality, weather durability, and user-friendly installation to provide an outstanding outdoor speaker solution that lets you enjoy great music anywhere outdoors, all year round.

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