B&W line up


Is there an exhaustive glossary of B&W's speaker line up through the years?  I scored an old pair of 801 d2's and they got me obsessed with the history but my gosh the naming conventions seem very confusing.. Like what's the difference in an 801n vs 801d? Or an 803d vs 803di vs 803s?  Where do they fall in line with one another?

Has anyone taken on the painstaking task of compiling this all into a nice easy to understand format?  

Hey @Bowers & Wilkins!  Create this please!

dtximages

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Thanks jasonbourne71 ha.. At least those naming conventions are different and a completely different line.  

I'm sure it's not an issue for those of you who've been around for 50+ years and watched all these iterations released, but going back in time trying to delineate the different models is mind-bending.

I really only care about the 800, 801, 802, 803 and 804 models and their evolutions.

 

 

@hifineubee you're saying the D4 series has that much better bass response over the D3 series?  Driver and cabinet wise, they appear pretty much identical. I'm not sure how they squeezed that much more bass out of them but kudos..

It was said above the the older 800 series were "warm and full"... I can definitely agree, however, there is a midrange crispiness that I feel is warm YET resolving at the same time. I heard the 801 D2 and they were nice but wasn't overly impressed.  My older 801 s2's made me smile though when I hooked them up. Just makes me want to listen.. I had the same experience with my Duntech Crown Princes and Martin Logan 13a's..   Just ahh nice