As usual, I blocked the LED light pollution with a sock. When using the Zeppelin for bedtime listening-in a completely dark room with a blackout curtain-I was able to adjust the volume by feel. On the top are icon-shaped buttons for volume down, play/pause, and volume up. The tweeters (double dome aluminum) are still 1 inch, and rated power is still 25 watts per driver with the woofer getting 50. Inside, the single woofer has been enlarged from 5 to 6 inches, and the midrange pair (picking up B&W’s FST driver technology from the 800 Series Diamond) has gone from 3 to 3.5. The composite video output has been eliminated along with the dock. On the back are the analog and Ethernet jacks the USB jack is for service only. On the front is a tab with LED indicators and buttons with backlit icons to pair Bluetooth devices and activate the aux input. It costs $100 more, and shorn of its dock, it looks more than ever like a football-an American football, I should specify, since Mr. The new Zeppelin is nearly an inch wider than the four-year-old Zeppelin Air, itself an update of the original Zeppelin from 2008. Only your wireless AirPlay and Bluetooth sources can waltz in the front door. If you want to plug a wired device into the new Zeppelin Wireless, it’ll have to go into the analog minijack in back-the servants’ entrance, as it were. In fact, Apple no longer offers the iPod classic, and Bowers & Wilkins has quietly eliminated the iPhone/iPod dock from its formidable Zeppelin one-piece audio system. “1,000 songs in your pocket” was a revolution on par with “perfect sound forever.” And now it seems just as archaic. The debut of the iPod was so cataclysmic that it nearly hurled the planet out of orbit.
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