B &W Bowers & Wilkins

Awards

From What Hi-Fi? Sound And Vision's Best Premium iPod Dock  to Trusted Reviews' product of the year, Zeppelin has accumulated a long list of plaudits. Find out more about some of the impressive accolades awarded to Bowers & Wilkins' iconic iPod Speaker System.

If you need more reasons to choose Zeppelin or want to know more about what makes Zeppelin sound so great read some of the reviews we've had here.

Best Premium iPod Dock

What Hi-Fi? Sound And Vision

In a bumper year for Bowers & Wilkins at the stylish What Hi-Fi? Sound And Vision Award the Zeppelin won the Best Premium iPod Dock category.  “There's unexpected scale and muscle to the sound, and the low frequencies are solid, taut and integrated smoothly into the rest of the frequency range.”

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Best Audio Product

Stuff

The Zeppelin was voted Best Audio Product by Stuff magazine. It was also nominated in three other categories including Gadget of the Year, Design of the Year and Readers’ Gadget of the Year. More than any other product!. “Sonically, the Zeppelin beats every other single-box system we’ve heard, with a weighty, expansive and articulate performance – but then, we’d expect nothing less from a company of B&W’s pedigree.”

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Best Consumer Audio Product

Macworld

 

The Zeppelin fought off strong competition to win the Best Consumer Audio Product category at this 2008’s glamorous Macworld Awards, held at London’s Arena. “Peerless build quality immediately marks this iPod speaker apart from the crowd. It feels solid and exudes high-class attention to detail. And the Zeppelin’s audio quality soundly complements its design, giving a detailed and insightful sound.”

 

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Best European Sound Station 2008-2009

EISA Awards

This is the first year that EISA had a Best Sound station category, so it’s fantastic that the Zeppelin won it. “Glamorously shaped and fabulously well thought-out, the B&W Zeppelin benefits from the technical heritage of one the most renowned loudspeaker brands in the world.”

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Product of the Year

Zeppelin was awarded Product of the Year by Trusted Reviews as well as being voted Best Home Audio product and coming second in the Best Design category. “The Zeppelin really does need to be heard to be believed, and proves that even an iPod can produce high fidelity sound, with a little help.”

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Best Music Gadget

Pocketlint Gadget Awards 2008

Zeppelin was crowned Best Music Gadget at this year’s Pocket Lint Awards, which are voted on by a selection of the UK’s most high-profile technology press. “If you are looking to bring down the house with noise, as well as have something very retro-cool sitting on your sideboard that is likely to get plenty of comments, the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin is a thing of beauty both in looks and sound.”

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Zeppelin Wins at MacWorld Awards

The B&W Zeppelin won the top prize within the Best Consumer Audio Product category. Pitched against strong competition from JBL, Ferguson Hill etc., Zeppelin came out head and shoulders above the rest and was recognised for both it’s phenomenal sound quality and design. The award category was sponsored by iPod User magazine (the sister publication to MacWorld) who had already awarded Zeppelin the coveted Editors Choice award in its spring issue.  Concluding that review, Andrew Harrison remarks, “Peerless build quality immediately marks this iPod speaker apart from the crowd. It feels solid and exudes high-class attention to detail. And the Zeppelin’s audio quality soundly complements its design, giving a detailed and insightful sound, underpinned not by tubby one-note bass, but a tight and musical low end that gives real body to all music. B&W has ably translated its competence in loudspeaker design to an iPod speaker that you’d be proud to own – with a design that’ll really impress your friends.”

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2008 CES Innovations Award

December 2007/January 2008

In the three months since its launch the sound system has proved to be an unqualified hit, exceeding sales targets and winning one of the most coveted awards in the industry, the Consumer Electronics Association¹s Best of Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Award.

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Zeppelin Wins EISA Award

Official quote from EISA:
“Glamorously shaped and fabulously well thought-out, the B&W Zeppelin benefits from the technical heritage of one the most renowned loudspeaker brands in the world. Born to be the bridge between traditional high-end audio and the newest generations of music lovers, the Zeppelin extends the appeal and capabilities of the ubiquitous iPod® range. Beneath the sculptured enclosure are five transducers designed by Bowers & Wilkins (two tweeters, two mid/bass units and one subwoofer) driven by 100W of efficient Class D amplification and with custom DSP to help optimise its bass performance in the normal living room. So the Zeppelin not only looks charismatic but also sounds deeply impressive.“

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10 Best Design 2008 award

Home Entertainment

The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin has been selected as one of the 10 Best Design products for 2008 by the editors of Robb Report Home Entertainment. This is an honor for they choose only 10 products each year.

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Boston Herald's "Best iPod Gear of 2007"

Zeppelin tops the list of the Boston Herald Interactive best of the best in 2007 for Best High End Speaker

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