You don’t need anything more for critical listening, but you’ll want to pair them with a subwoofer—at least—for home theater use.
Bowers & Wilkins’ 704 S2 floor-standing speakers ($1,250 each) lie smack-dab in the middle of B&W’s completely new 700-series loudspeaker lineup. And they sound fantastic.
While the benefits of trickle-down economics are mythical, there’s a long and successful tradition of trickle-down technology: Innovations introduced at the high end being folded into less-expensive models as their manufacturer recoups their R&D costs. Such is the case with the 700 series.
B&W 704 S2 specs
B&W took several features first introduced with its ultra-high-end 800 Series Diamond speakers and incorporated them into the 700 series. The 704 S2 speakers reviewed here don’t get all those new technologies, but they do get a 5-inch Continuum midrange driver, along with a version of B&W’s Aerofoil Profile bass driver (there’s a pair of these airfoil-shaped cones in the cabinet).
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