Such has been the consistency of B&W’s design approach that it’s easy to dismiss recent generations of the 800 series as just more of the same.

The general look has hardly changed over the last decade or so, and those curved cabinets have gone from looking futuristic to almost classical, though they still look attractive.

The new B&W 805 D3 hardly goes out of its way to dispel the ‘more of the same’ notion, but start delving and you’ll find B&W’s engineers have left little unturned in their bid to improve performance.