Re: Home Audio Systems
Ben,
Your newbie light is showing 
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Bowers and Wilkins is one of the grandfathers of the British HiFi world.
Anything from B&W that Best Buy is selling likely comes from an off shore facility. The big dollar B&W stuff comes from England.
The B&W 802 is one of the "standards" of recording studios and mastering. The latest incarnation of this loudspeaker has a diamond tweeter.
There's a lot of good physics on the B&W website. I suggest poking around, you'll learn something!
Another historic player in this space is ATC. Billy Woodman is a sharp loudspeaker designer, and it was great to meet him at AES several years ago.
HiFi people have much different criteria than over here in the pro-sound world. Power response and directivity behavior is totally different than what we deal with (i.e. not thought about enough).
