Nautilus

Since we talked earlier about submarines, and about this speaker, before, we might as well publish a photo of the Nautilus. It's a ground-breaking speaker, that might look good in a composite marble or metal enclosure, with good-looking units of drive.

To us, there is something missing with this speaker. The enclosure is there, but it somehow does not connect to the base. It's somewhat sluggish in this regard. The tubes are nice, but it's a bit icky how the tube holders are connected to the convert tube receptacles.

Is it human? A sluggish person?

Likely we would prefer a non-Nautilus Nautilus, with the bass tube, as the others, in symmetry.

It's as if Charles Atlas had held the world, and was now morphed into a composite entity.

In the photo, the blue is noble, and the silver is south facing. We suppose it's put there to reflect the drive units, which look off.

The concrete bass looks fine, with the little slits, to allow the cables.

Free reign.

Should you wish yourself a B&W Nautilus, we recommend you audition. It's a fine system, one which would allow inclusion in a collection. We recommend you consider the Silver Signature as a purchase.

Compositionally, as a product we imagine it was conceived in terms of materials, to show appeal to car collectors, who collected and admired automobiles created in fiber-glass.

We saw one in London once, when it was just becoming a Habitat for now-resident Arabs. Lovely thing, it resembled quite closely the Bat-mobile, with two separate driving compartments.

Michael Barnes, of North, Thailand, compliments himself on sharing a similar design choice of the 800 Nautlius with his Marble 9.1.

For those wishing a curved enclosure, in Marble, similar to the 800 Nautilus top cabinet, with good drivers ( Scanspeak Revelator), and sub-$10,000 point in price, Norh.com may satisfy.

(down to 33 Hz).

As a note, we have been somewhat critical of B&W drive units, since encountering a former construction company owner (of bridges and the like), who had a lovely exterior pool in marble, which was a copy of Sophia Lauren's from Italy. Inside, he had two pushed-in Gold plated B&W Matrix 800 tweeters, and we have looked at with suspicion, B&W Drive units, since. He had lovely accompanying imported electronics. Like others, we would like the Kevlar mid-ranges changed to at least Auccuton ceramic. :)

For something like the B&W Nautilus, all frozen-Mercury and at-worse, diamond. :)