About The Bowers & Wilkins ASW-610 Subwoofer
The Bowers & Wilkins ASW610 is the middle model of the 600 Series subwoofers & dynamically delivers the finishing touches to a hi-fi or home theatre system for medium to larger rooms.
The new 600 Series from Bowers & Wilkins transforms your home with pristine sound. Since 1966, Bowers & Wilkins have made technological advances to design the perfect loudspeaker, and their latest innovations bring that heritage to music and movie lovers alike.
The 600 Series includes three subwoofers, ranging from the compact ASW608 to the powerful ASW610XP. Each boasts an audiophile-standard, highly efficient Class D amplifier to capture every spine-tingling, water-shaking sound that you hear. Each of the subwoofers are finished to match the rest of the series, with beautiful matte black and white to seamlessly integrate with your home. With the sixth generation of the 600 Series, you can truly transform your space into a beautiful sound session.
Custom Design Long Throw Driver: Its long-throw 250mm driver allows the ASW610 to move the large volumes of air needed for high-quality low-frequency output, and its audiophile-standard 200 Watt Class D amplifier keeps the unit running cool, even when the music or movie action is whipping up a storm.
In all of the 600 Series subwoofers, the bass driver diaphragms are constructed from a rugged, finely-tuned mix of paper pulp, Kevlar® fibres and resin, which provides the stiffness needed to withstand the tremendous physical forces exerted by the voice coil and pressures inside the cabinet.
Kevlar: Kevlar has been a Bowers & Wilkins hallmark since 1974; and for good reason. Impregnated with a stiffening resin, and then treated with a polymer coat that seals the fibre and adds damping, Kevlar maintains a more constant dispersion pattern at all frequencies in its range than any other cone material. The result? Far fewer delayed, time-smearing sounds, and an exceptionally clean, precise performance.
200 Watt Amplifier: To power the ASW610, Bowers & Wilkins engineered a completely new 200 Watt Class D amplifier with a regulated, switching power supply. This approach helps make the amplifier more compact, lightweight and efficient, while still delivering ample, clean power to fully complement the 250mm woofer's performance.
Ultra-solid construction delivers slamming bass, drum kicks, and special movie effects. Deformation is minimised; bass precision, power and enjoyment are maximised.
In The News
Best subwoofer up to £700 (AUD $1,300), Awards 2011. Neat, well made and sounds great for the money. Fabulously agile and well-extended bass for its size. Good finish. Small and well-equipped. What Hi-Fi?
Our Take On The Bowers & Wilkins ASW-610 Subwoofer
Subwoofers tend to fall into two categories: on the one side, there are the bigger boxes that can move a lot of air but which aren't particularly living-room-friendly; and on the other, there's the smaller kit which is easy enough to hide behind your sofa but which, with a few exceptions, tends to sound as small as it looks.
Bowers & Wilkins's ASW610 is designed to offer the best of both worlds. A multiple award winner, the ASW610 is small, just 31cm tall, but thanks to its ultra-stiff, long-throw 25cm drive unit and efficient 200w Class D power amp, it sounds genuinely dynamic.
As with all recent Bowers & Wilkins subs, the 610 is a sealed-box enclosure, its complex Kevlar/paper drive unit ensuring minimal deformation under even the most extreme duress: push the Bowers & Wilkins very hard, and it'll maintain a stringent accuracy that few rivals can equal.
Main Features & Specifications
- Design: Active closed-box subwoofer
- Drive Unit: 1x 250mm (10") paper/Kevlar® cone long-throw
- Frequency Range: -6dB at 20Hz and 25/140Hz adjustable (EQ at A)
- Frequency Response: ±3dB 27Hz – 40/140Hz adjustable (EQ at A)
- Bass Extension: -6dB at 20Hz (position A), -6dB at 25Hz (position B), -6dB at 30Hz (position C)
- Low-Pass Filter: Active 4th-order, variable cut-off frequency
- Amplifier Power Output: 200 Watt
- Rated Power Consumption: 40 Watt/ 0.5 Watt standby
- Impedance: 33k Ohms
- Signal/noise: >90dB
- Functions:
- Volume level – line in
- Volume level – speaker in
- Low-pass filter frequency
- Low-pass filter bypass (line in only)
- Bass extension
- Bass roll-off alignment
- Auto sense on/standby
- Phase switch
- Inputs:
- Line Level Inputs: RCA/Phono (Sold separately)
- Speaker Terminals: Binding post type - accept bare wire or 'banana' plugs
- 12v trigger (3.5mm jack)
- Dimensions WxHxD): 310 x 310 x 375mm
- Available Finishes: Matte Black or Matte White
- Nett Weight: 12.5 kg
- Manufacturers Warranty: 2-Years (Covers faulty workmanship and materials, but not abuse)
Note: Features & Specifications Subject To Change Without Notice. E&OE.