B&W Panorama
Price: £1,500
Link: Bowers & Wilkins
With the Zeppelin, B&W made iPod docks acceptable to the audiophile cognoscenti. Now it’s pulling off the same trick with soundbars. Slickly styled and bristling with speaker drivers, the Panorama projects 175W of surround sound, engulfing you in music, speech and sound effects.
It summons up pulsating bass without the need for a separate subwoofer and comes with three digital inputs – two optical, one coaxial – and two analog inputs, meaning you can add iPods, Blu-ray players, PVrs and more. With your entire sound system shrunk to just this one box, your lounge will be as clean-lined as the Panorama itself.
