Bowers & Wilkins HTM71 S3

Description

The Bowers & Wilkins HTM71 S3 is the flagship centre-channel loudspeaker in the 700 Series, purpose-built to anchor your home theatre system with absolute clarity, scale, and authority. At its heart is the advanced Carbon Dome tweeter, housed in the brand’s signature Tweeter-on-Top enclosure, which delivers exceptional high-frequency detail and realism, ensuring every whisper, breath, or subtle effect is heard with pinpoint precision. Complementing the tweeter is a dedicated 130mm (5-inch) Continuum™ Cone FST midrange driver, designed specifically to reproduce dialogue with accuracy and presence — a critical element for movies and television, where vocal intelligibility is paramount. To add depth and impact, the HTM71 S3 also incorporates twin Aerofoil™ Profile bass cones, engineered to provide powerful, controlled low-frequency extension that fills the room with cinematic energy without sacrificing clarity.

Thanks to this combination of technologies, the HTM71 S3 creates a balanced, immersive soundstage, seamlessly integrating with other speakers in the 700 Series. It is the ideal centre-channel partner for larger models such as the 705 S3, 703 S3, and 702 S3, ensuring a coherent and unified surround sound experience. With its refined design, premium finishes, and uncompromising acoustic engineering, the HTM71 S3 elevates home cinema to a new level of realism and emotional impact.

Uncompromising Vocal Performance

The HTM71 S3 now features Tweeter-on-Top technology, ensuring perfect integration with similarly equipped 700 Series models in a surround sound system.

A House For High Frequencies

The 700 Series features the latest generation of our iconic Solid Body Tweeter-on-Top housing. Its new, more elongated form incorporates a longer tube-loading system to produce an even more free and open sound with high frequencies. The carefully decoupled housing is milled from a single solid block of aluminium to better resist resonance.

Sharper Detail

Carbon Dome tweeters are purpose-built for the 700 Series. Delivering a dramatic improvement on the aluminium double dome tweeter, they raise the breakup threshold to 47kHz, for pinpoint imaging accuracy and detail.

Truly Amazing Sound

Thanks to its composite construction, the Continuum™ cone avoids the abrupt transitions in behaviour that can impair the performance of a conventional drive unit. The result is a more open, neutral performance that delivers voices and instruments with precision and transparency.

Clean And Clear

Every three-way loudspeaker in the new 700 Series has a dedicated midrange cone using four key Bowers & Wilkins technologies: the Continuum cone, FST™, Biomimetic Suspension and midrange decoupling, the latter ensuring minimal interference from the operation of the loudspeaker’s bass drivers.

A Triumph Of Science

Developed using advanced computer modelling techniques, the Aerofoil™ Profile bass cone has variable thickness, providing stiffness and rigidity where it’s needed most. The result: deep and dynamic bass.

Technical Specification