NAUTLIUS

Nothing looks, or sounds, quite like Nautilus™. A revolution when it launched and still an icon today. Its ethos informs everything B&w do. Nautilus comes in three standard colors: midnight blue, black, and silver. B&w also offer a special service that can match any color from a sample or color reference.

Redefining sound

The long, tapered damping tubes were a revolution, allowing the drive units to work optimally by gently absorbing stray energy.

Shaped by sound

At a glance, you can see Nautilus is no ordinary speaker, and after nearly three decades it still defines high-end audio.

Making magic

Constructing the complex shapes and precision drive units demands decades of experience and exacting attention to detail.

Crafting a classic

Nautilus speakers are hand-built to order, alongside the 800 Series Diamond™, by a dedicated specialist team in their Worthing factory.

Infinite colors

 Nautilus comes in three standard colors: silver, black and midnight blue. But, as befits such a unique speaker, B&w also offer a special service that can match any color you specify.

Setting the standard for the future

The striking spirals and tubes of Nautilus came from B&w's research into making speaker drive units behave as B&w wanted: this Nautilus Tube™ technology, for which they won a Queen's Award for Innovation, is now found in almost every speaker they make.

Thinking beyond the box

Nautilus is quite unlike a conventional box speaker: to package B&w's unique Nautilus tubes for use in the home, their designers developed the striking, and space-efficient, spiral form from which the speaker takes its name.

But why the Nautilus tube?

 We want to hear a speaker driver, not its side-effects – conventional boxes contain sound from the rear of the driver, but bring their own problems. Nautilus tapering tubes soak up wayward energy and reduce resonances to the point of insignificance.