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Don't, or do, make the mistake I made yesterday....

Take the time to listen to (audition!) the Bowers & Wilkins system with a high-quality audio source. The sound quality is rather amazing. I was listening to some Mark Knopfler songs and that system allows you to hear the brushes on the cymbals as distinct sound, with variations in pitch as the brushes move. I'm not an audiophile and generally can't tell the difference between a lossless recording and something reasonably compressed but I can certainly hear the difference between the B & W system and the Harman Kardon.

For comparison I listened to the H K system in a new X7 and it really was terrible. To be fair, the B & W system was in a car with 17k miles so the system was "broken in" whereas the X7 was new.

Acoustic glass with Bowers & Wilkins are now on my order for our new X5, unless I buy an F15 with the B&W system but those are extremely rare.