Be at Center Stage, No Matter Where You Sit
The Formation Bar from Bowers & Wilkins gives you an entire theater in one elegant soundbar. It has the power and definition to immerse you in your favorite movie soundtracks or bring your music to life, with the discreet good looks to fit into any home. Formation Bar will put you right at the heart of the action.
Wireless soundbars are supposed to help give a full, immersive home theater sound experience in a compact design. But they often they fall short with too few speakers that aren’t placed at an optimum angle due to the limited shape and size.
With the Formation Bar, Bowers & Wilkins has created a powerful multiroom soundbar that delivers legendary sound quality with wireless streaming flexibility. Bowers & Wilkins engineers designed nine optimized drive units inspired by their legendary loudspeakers and have them optimally positioned in a sleek design to create a wider, all-inclusive, soundstage – while a dedicated center channel layers in crisp, clear dialog.
The combination makes an entire room “center stage” for a truly immersive audio experience that will make your home theater experience a part of what Bowers & Wilkins calls the Highest Form of Sound™.
Room-Filling, Full-Range Sound
For room-filling, full-range sound, the Formation Bar has three 1" double dome tweeters and six 2.6" woven glass fiber bass/midrange cones. The built-in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Digital Amplifier provides power delivery of 6 x 40-watts for total system power of a big 240 watts.
Overflowing with Capability
Formation Bar will enable you to listen to audio from your TV, listen to audio from streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, and Roon, and listen to network stored audio files. You can also listen to audio over Bluetooth from appropriately enabled Bluetooth source devices, to audio from devices such as turntables (via a phono preamp) and CD players that are connected to a Bowers & Wilkins Formation Audio or other Formation devices (optional, sold separately), and to audio from Internet Radio, Apple AirPlay, or Bluetooth compatible services and apps. You can listen to audio playing anywhere in your home on any Formation device connected to your home network.
The Bowers & Wilkins Home app is required to connect your Formation Bar to your home network and also to establish connection with other Formation products in your home.
The New Wireless Revolution
Formation is the name of Bowers and Wilkins' exclusive wireless technology. Formation guarantees a flawless listening experience, no matter how extensive your system. Using a robust, independent network, Bowers & Wilkins' wireless speakers deliver perfect room-to-room synchronization and outstanding sound. Set-up and control is easy, too.
Complete Control is Yours
Control your entire Bowers & Wilkins wireless audio system using the company's Music app for iOS and Android. Organize your speakers into groups, integrate your favorite streaming services, and enjoy an unrivaled combination of high-resolution audio performance and absolute convenience.
The Bowers & Wilkins Home app enables you to select and play any available audio source or stream. In much the same way that conventional audio source playback requires initiation through a play command, Formation streams must be first initiated through their own gateway app: the Spotify app for example, or a music library app such as Roon. Each gateway or library app will list your Formation Bar space as an available playback device using Airplay, Bluetooth or in the case of Spotify, Spotify Connect.
Once audio streams are playing on the Formation network they can be selected via the Bowers & Wilkins Home app or via the Formation Bar top panel Form touch button. Touching the Form button will cycle though the available streams and sources.
Some commonly used control functions are also available via touch buttons on the Formation Bar top panel and it is additionally able to learn and respond to TV remote control volume commands. It is only possible to install and configure a Formation Bar using the Bowers & Wilkins Home app.
