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• The Zeppelin iPod docking station is very pleasing on the eye, but its design is based on sound acoustic principles. One of the reasons tweeters are so small is that they disperse the tiny high frequency waves over a wider area than larger drivers. But what is less well known is that the size of the enclosure housing the tweeter also affects this dispersion, and that's why Zeppelin's body narrows as the drivers get smaller.

• B&W developed its iPod docking station with the same exacting standards as the speakers that sit in Abbey Road Studios or Skywalker Sound. Drive units are the engine room of any speaker and Zeppelin's midrange and tweeter derive directly from those in our award-winning M-1, regarded by the world's specialist audio press as a class-leading compact speaker.
• Added to these is an internal subwoofer driver, centrally located in the deepest part of Zeppelin's sleek enclosure, where it handles deep bass with power and authority.
  Powering these drive units are three high-quality amplifiers (one for left, one for right, and one for bass). Most iPod speakers make do without that third one, but Zeppelin was conceived to offer the sort of sound you’d expect from a component stereo system rather than normal iPod speakers.

• Handling high frequencies is a pair of aluminum dome tweeters that feature an adapted version of B&W's trademark Nautilus™ tweeter tube. Featured in B&W’s reference 800 Series, Nautilus™ acts like an acoustic black hole, swallowing superfluous sound from behind the dome. Sweeter tweeters you’ll never hear.

• The twin midrange drive units that supply the bulk of Zeppelin’s amazing sound rely on glass fiber cones, optimized using laser interferometry techniques pioneered by Bowers & Wilkins. Using lasers to optimize drive units dramatically reduces the effects of unwanted standing waves in the drive unit cone leaving music sounding cleaner, clearer and true to life.

• Zeppelin’s central bass unit is massively engineered. An oversized magnet and 4-layer voice coil drive the Kevlar®-reinforced 5" cone. This helps to ensure Zeppelin can produce real bass extension of the sort you would normally associate with much larger speaker systems.

• Zeppelin’s elegant cabinet is actually a clever composite shell comprising a highly-damped constrained layer in between a stiff polymer inner casing and a heavy stainless steel cover. This ensures the cabinet has the highest possible strength so what you hear is the drive units themselves and not the cabinet that contains them.

• The Zeppelin’s three amplifiers use Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to both optimize the response of the five drive units and actively adjust the sound balance in relation to the volume level selected by the listener. This ensures Zeppelin delivers its warmly detailed sound in small and large environments at all listening levels.

• The less physical material there is around tweeters and midranges, the better they sound. That’s one of reasons why B&W speakers are such distinctive shapes. Zeppelin’s rounded, tapering ends aren’t there just for show. By minimizing the baffle area around the drive units, the cabinet reduces diffraction effects, making for ultra-wide sound dispersion and a much smoother response. In other words, it sounds as good as it looks.

• The Zeppelin has several settings built into it by Bowers & Wilkins which allow a user to tailor its sound for different locations and rooms. This function is simply and quickly assessed via the iPod thumbwheel which, when docked with a Zeppelin, produces a new menu item called Speakers.
  

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin iPod/iPhone Speaker w/Integrated Dock Specifications

• Zeppelin’s power supply operates on all mains voltages from 100V to 240V. If you take it to a different country, it will automatically sense the incoming voltages and adjust itself accordingly. Zeppelin will not burn power unnecessarily either. If you are playing an iPod on Zeppelin and grab it in a rush on the way out, Zeppelin will automatically go into standby mode after 5 minutes of non use.

• It is made for iPod, but a variety of other devices can play sound through Zeppelin and the bass level settings described in the Sound section are also applied to these devices. Both analogue and optical digital connectivity is supported by a common (AUX) socket on the back of Zeppelin.
• Examples of other sources are:
  
  • Other MP3 players, including early iPods without click wheel
  • CD players - portable or static
  • Portable radios with headphone or digital outputs.
  • Computer direct
  • Computer wirelessly using Apple Airport Express™

• Digital Signal Processing
• Digital amplifier
• Switch mode power supply
  

• 1x 125mm (5 in) bass
• 2x 90mm (3.5 in) midrange
• 2x 25mm (1 in) metal dome tweeter
  

• -6dB at 47Hz and 22kHz

• 1x 50W (bass)
• 2x 25W (midrange/tweeter)
  

• 100V - 240V ~ 50/60Hz

• 20W

• 3.7W

• 30-pin iPod connector
• 3.5mm mini jack analog/optical digital
• USB 2.0 slave (software upgrades)
  

• S-video (mini DIN)
• Composite video (RCA Phono)
  

• 173mm (6.8 in) without tilt pad
• 198mm (7.8 in) with tilt pad
  

• 640mm (25.2 in)

• 208mm (8.2 in)

• 7.5kg (16.5 lb)

• Polished stainless steel with black trim

• Black cloth

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