B&W production years:
1966 B&W electronics is founded.
1969 - 1975 DM70 Continental ("washing machine", 11 element mid-high frequency electrostatic drivers, dynamic low frequency driver) followed by DM70 improved (new electrostatic drivers).
1976 DM6 ("pregnant kangoroo", Kevlar midrange, phase alignement).
1977 DM7 (separate high frequecy enclosure on top of the low-mid frequency enclosure).
* 1st generation series 800 (pre Nautilus):
1979 -1986 original 801 (with battery powered overload protection), followed by 801F (reinforced midrange enclosure, audio powered overload circuit APOC) and 801FS (new tweeter).
1987 - 1991 Matrix 801 series 2 (fluid cooled alu tweeter).
1992 - 1997 Matrix 801 series 3 (improved fluid cooled alu tweeter, improved frequency dividing network).
1993 original Nautilus
* 2nd generation 800 series (post Nautilus):
1998 - 2004 Nautilus 800 series (800N series, alu tweeter)
2005 - 2009 800 D series (800 D1 series, Diamond tweeters for 800, 801, 802 and 803)
2010 - 2015 800 Diamond series (800 D2 series, Diamond tweeters for whole range, no more 801)
* 3rd generation 800 series (50th anniversary):
2015 - current 800 D3 series (completely new construction, 800 D3 appeared 2016 as 50th anniversary model)
Martin
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