The Outrageous B&W Nautilus Speakers 

This was to speakers as the McLaren F1 was to cars...a true timeless classic

There was a physician that I was acquainted with who owned these in the late Ninety's. I was able to sit and listen to them in a relatively poor listening room twenty-five years ago and they left an indelible impression...aurally and aesthetically.

Amazing as usual! Thank you for the presentation.

A terrific video that plays to the unique strengths of your channel. A nice, early Christmas pleasure. Thank you and merry Christmas.

Awsome, can't wait for the playing video. 👍

Thank you for making this video. I heard them play years ago too. I like other types of speakers, but they are works of art and sound beautiful. Greetings from the Netherlands Limburg Maastricht. Peace and love and of course High-end. And above all, continue with High-end. 👌🏾👍🏾😉✌🏾😘

Midnight blue (Nachtblau Perlcolor - in German) is indeed a Porsche color. It was introduced in 1991 and is best known for the 928 GTS, which was built between 1992-1995.

😳😮😭 These brings me tears of Joy!

Breathtaking form. Legendary.

Excellent. I really like your establishment, cars & hi-fi you can't go wrong

Those are magnificent in that color!

Still my dream speaker!! but But I still love my 801f and 802f 80series 2 all the same. Essentially after some updates and upgraded tweeters 👍😎 Thanks for showing these beauties 😍

Simply outstanding!

dream,masterpiece..thank you.

I love the clear vision and execution in their design. BTW, is that a Wadia CD Player on the left side? Another legend from the 90s.

Can't wait 🎧👍😁

🤗 THANKS A MILLION …FERNANDO FOR YOUR VERY COMPLETE, INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING 🧐 VIDEO ON THE NAUTILUS SPEAKERS …I HAVE WONDERED ABOUT THEM SINCE THEY FIRST CAME OUT 🧐 AND NOW I LOOK 👀 FORWARD TO HEARING THEM 🤩🤩 ….BINAURALLY …THE NEXT BEST THING TO BEING THERE 😍😍😍

I’ve never really dug the style of these things, but watching your video, I can finally appreciate what they’re going for and why folks dig them.

Your videos are appreciated thank you

What a spectacular speaker. I had heard they were modelled on the human inner ear. Electrocompaniet Nemo Monobloc Amplifiers And Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus, I think they were made to match, hence their name. The B&W shop in worthing also still service some Nakamichi tape decks.

Amazing

Feliz Navidad a todos los del canal. Y felices fiestas para el resto.

My dream speakers. I have the B&W 702 S2's which are brilliant but the Nautilus .............!!!

My uncle had these or a version of these in the 1980's.... I used to just stare and marvel at them !

I read an article maybe 6 months ago that someone purchased a pair of the speakers and placed them on each side of his front entrance. When the dealer arrived to set them up the owner told him he didn’t want them set up. His intent was to use them only as artwork in his main entrance. Pretty amazing if true.

Thanks to know they are always paired with an active crossover. I assume Linkwitz-Riley topology?

very pretty reminds me of a TVR tuscan

Uauuu Amazing Place

Thanks for this very informative video. Were you going to make a video of sound samples from these speakers? That would be great if you could post such a video. Thanks again.

Give me these speakers and a set of mcintosh amps and the living room looks like a room from the Bioshock video game. Im so in love. Especially the paint is gorgeous!

Looks like something a Xenomorph would have in their living room.

From the sides they also remind of a runner dashing

More elegant than I thought from photos at dealer sites. They look less imposing than B&W 80x Diamond series or common floorstanding towers.

hello, is there a difference in bandwidth between the first versions of these speakers and the latest? because I see on some data sheets that it is sometimes marked that they go down to 25 hertz and on others I see marked 10 hertz. Thanks.

Do these speakers have external crossovers???

A very impressive speaker and who cares about anyone else -sit in the sweet spot and enjoy. I thought these were much better than the 802 Nautilus etc because the tonality was just correct and it never had the Terrible port farting that is a B&W trademark after John Bowers died. The idea behind all drivers using the same material ensures uniform decay /resonance etc So without the port farting of the other Nautilus speakers they just sound better -perhaps the latest series has the port farting under control? Anyway a speaker for the refined listener. A test for port farting is Al Di Meola SACD Flesh on Flesh play that turned up and the bass notes blur and rhythm's become lost - anyway the latest AE 509 series use drivers all made of carbon including the tweeter so you can experience that uniformity of sound much cheaper than $60 k now

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Are they for sale ?

Diggin the color of those B&W’s Fernando! KILLER

Do a video on the Magnepan Tympani speakers behind the B&Ws.

Hi, Do you still have the speakers? Can I ask what the dimension of the tapered nautilus tubes are? Thanks. strange question I know!

I thumbed up this video at 1:00

Technics had made a similar concept speaker in the late 70s, although not exactly the same shape.

I guess that test you mention at the end of the video never happened?

wasn't this thing in a movie with sigourney weaver?

The most stunning looking pair of speakers ever made imo. But there is a contender on the horizon, from Monitor Audio no less, another Great British manufacturer 🇬🇧 they call them "HYPHN". Arguably equally stunning aesthetically. And sonically, they promise much. I would love to hear both speakers at some point, not having heard either, as yet. But personally, the Nautilus have the edge aesthetically, imo. There is just nothing else like them, or ever has been. I would mount them on isolated castors perhaps, to make them easier to move around. But then my concern would be that the tweeters and upper mid drivers would be too high in relation to your seating position, as they are already quite high to start with. I think I would need to build an elevated seat, on its own stage, not unlike a Regal Throne, but without all the gilting perhaps, as gilt would perhaps be a touch TOO pretentious. A black leather Lazyboy sat atop of two or three shipping pallets is more the way that I roll. But the only colour for the Nautilus imo, is the Midnight Blue, that colour is just perfect, and allows all the contours to catch the light and pop. Just beautiful!

Wonder where these rank with the WAF ratings?

Those will sell quick. All Bowers tweeters have a Nautilus tube these day's

What amplifier do people run with these speakers?

Sweeeeeeeeeet

Is he wearing audio gauntlets? 🤔

I thought Sigourney Weaver killed all those things.

The word "stunning" doesn't even cut it...

Hey, I really like your videos

I have a pair of Genelec 1022B professional recording speakers made of a very high grade plastic just like these. Don’t ever dismiss the use of molded plastic for a speaker enclosure. Done correctly, there is no better material.

They sound amazing, but don't care for the look. Maybe a beach house.

One day ill afford lol

Much more interested in the rest of your shop than those speakers.

Your camera movements are still to fast paced. You need to learn to pan the camera at at extremely exaggerated slow movement. And stop waving the light or your hands in front of the camera. Nice job reviewing these speakers. Lots of great information. I can't wait to hear about listening impressions. I will stay tuned!!!

aluminum ... argh it's aluminium!

I listened to this speaker a few years ago and it was magical and now i listened to other speakers its all meh and nothing is good enough. Wish i could afford it.

If your saying No one ever heard HI-FI this way, and at the same time claims it' s the best u can hey to try, something tells med everything is wrong about that statement,? There is not some equitment, who can be claimed, to be the best in the World,? There is so much more to this, than a kind of exptic speaker. Personality, gear, room and so Forth. Cheers 🇩🇰

U know whats funny? Hearing these and not liking the way they sound.... Hahahaha.

so this is what 70k$ of speakers looks like...

Bizarre and unaffordable , yep that's high end audio for you.

For a fraction of the price, headphones far surpass these speakers in fidelity.

first world problems.. haha

That's bullshit. "If you were a serious audiophile'. Lol

When you're overly wealthy and need something pointlessly expensive to spend your money on

$$$? Anyone?

Snail?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus