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In the Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers

Post Subject: Good word found – the radiancePosted by Romy the Cat on: 8/15/2009

el`Ol wrote:
…. there is some characteristic shining or radiance…

Yes and no. Radiance probably is a very good word to describe Wilsons. (Search the site for Focal Utopia TN51) The key in here is not letting the artificial radiance to stay on your way and to USE radiance constructively. To do it Wilson’s radiance need to be VERY properly and VERY sensibly balanced with its lower MF and midbass region. It is very difficult and it is not always even possible. Here is where all small Wilsons in my view need to discarded. Only big Wilsons: Garand Slam and Alexandria had this opportunity, but again - it requires a lot of whorl with very complicate positioning of them and it will not work in all rooms. The Maxx I also attribute to the small Wilsons as I think the lower range of them underdeveloped to respect to the upper-range radiance they demonstrate. It looks like lat years Wilsons is trying to beef up of the reputation and capacity of the Maxx line and it is possible that the latest Maxx 3 is more able then Maxx and Maxx 2 with which I am familiar. It is hard to say. The fucking idiots who own Maxx and write about them were absolutely ecstatic about the first Maxx, as well as the Maxx 2 as they are ecstatic about the Maxx 3. No one of them has a stand about absolute sound’s needs and they just milk their stupid brains in respect to the new products promotion.

The Wilson’s exuberant radiance is undoubtedly a selling aspect for Wilson –people like the immoderate gratification but still I feel that in the properly setup big Wilsons the “wrong radiance” shall not be there. The big Wilson have many very specials qualities that in a way unique in loudspeakers. Put in this way: we have many near and over $100K loudspeakers that not even remotely close to near and over $100K Wilsons. I still feel that over $100K loudspeakers shall offer a different topological opportunity. The $100K or lower it will be the price of Macondo-like installation with a full- blown pair 40Hz midbass hors and a pair of 90 sq feet ULF sections, that will eat Alexandra on breakfast. Still, the big Wilsons are a good compact, encapsulated and comfortable package. Sure it has problems and I well describe them in the beginning of the thread. But, again, I talk about product not about sound – I do not care about products….

el`Ol wrote:
But I would NEVER call them references due to ….

El’Ol, you forget that the definition of references is possible ONLY in context of your expectations. If I performed a service for you and you graded my service as something that “did not meet expectations” then the first question would be is not how good my service was but what your expectations were all about. The majorities of audio Morons do not exchange and do not correlate expectations and requirements for sound, they just pollute space with mindless, disconnected and incoherent commentaries about sounds that hardly ever related to anything. Anyhow, if you pay attention to where I lead my disappointment with Big Wilsons then you might observe that it is my feeling that despise the numerous reviews and commentaries the Big Wilsons had, still NO ONE said about Big Wilsons anything true worthy what Big Wilsons migh deserve. Perhaps when David Wilsons retire he might write a book about his views about the bid Wilsons and about the Wilsons that he did not build because his admirerers are too primitive idiots who satisfied with anything inferior. I do not know David Wilson personally and I do not know how he thinks. I spoke with him 14 years back but it was very non-indicative. He might be all enslaved with his industry delusions, sort of Mike Framer but who has actually tangible capacity to do the thing instead of serving humanity as a republican radio talk-show host. Other then this I do not think that anything about Big Wilson’s design or sound will be able to became an understood awareness for wide audio public.

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