Bowers & Wilkins CI600 Marine 8 8-Inch Outdoor & Boating Speaker (Each) av-cablelength-30f place the dust cover upright

place the dust cover upright on the included base and show it proudly to friends

but the common alternative is a 2-way where the tweeter sits in front of a small bass/midrange driver

masking low level signals and crippling performance

and resulting poor sound

Weight:  36

Bowers & Wilkins CI600 Marine 8 8-Inch Outdoor & Boating Speaker (Each) av-cablelength-30f place the dust cover uprightThe marine environment is unforgiving. Any equipment has to survive extremes of temperature, salt spray, and hosing down. Its little wonder then that most speakers designed for marine applications sacrifice sound quality for ruggedness. Of course, any Bowers & Wilkins speaker must sound brilliant. So these outdoor marine speakers were first designed to match exacting sound quality standards, then the necessary toughness to survive the harsh marine