New Wilson Audio flagship speakers

[Sal1950]

The whole house has been ridiculed. The 52 acres near Aspen are worth a lot, but the asking price was $125 million. The exterior of the house is visibly not in great shape.

I also hate the carpet but overall what an awesome room!
Where do I place my bid?

 

[Dialectic]

I also hate the carpet but overall what an awesome room!
Where do I place my bid?

I worked for Bill’s brothers many years ago but never saw any of their stereo stuff.

It does look like a nice early 2000s media room.

 

[Sal1950]

I worked for Bill’s brothers many years ago but never saw any of their stereo stuff.

It does look like a nice early 2000s media room.

Damn, do some folk really live like this, incredible.

Now going up for auction next month.

Elk Mountain Lodge in Photos

Billionaire businessman Bill Koch's 52-acre mountain retreat near Aspen, once up for grabs at $125 million, is now heading to auction.

robbreport.com

But still wayyyyy to cold for me, couldn't pay me to live there.
Give me Mar-a-Lago in sunny Palm Beach

 

[Dialectic]

Damn, do some folk really live like this, incredible.

Now going up for auction next month.

Elk Mountain Lodge in Photos

Billionaire businessman Bill Koch's 52-acre mountain retreat near Aspen, once up for grabs at $125 million, is now heading to auction.

robbreport.com

But still wayyyyy to cold for me, couldn't pay me to live there.
Give me Mar-a-Lago in sunny Palm Beach

I spent some time in Palm Beach when my last employer opened an office there.

It was during this tropical interlude that I became acquainted with the architectural monstrosity once owned by Bill’s late brother, David. His estate was the only private fiefdom on the island to straddle its entire width, dipping its toes into the placid Intracoastal and the churning Atlantic. A ribbon of public asphalt bisects this paradise to provide access to, among other places, Mar-a-Lago.

In the shadow of his brother's home, Bill’s alpine retreat in Aspen appears a tacky McMansion.

But I understand Bill also maintains a foothold in Palm Beach, surely opulent but not to the standard of his brother's.

 

[Short38]

I’ve read a lot of the Wilson tread and now must end on the good night sequence from the Waltons….

 

[Mart68]

Damn, do some folk really live like this, incredible.

Just needs a hedge maze and a Gold Room and it's the Overlook Hotel.

 

[Sal1950]

Just needs a hedge maze and a Gold Room and it's the Overlook Hotel.

Herrrrre's JOHNNY.

 

[EJ3]

Damn, do some folk really live like this, incredible.

Now going up for auction next month.

Elk Mountain Lodge in Photos

Billionaire businessman Bill Koch's 52-acre mountain retreat near Aspen, once up for grabs at $125 million, is now heading to auction.

robbreport.com

But still wayyyyy to cold for me, couldn't pay me to live there.
Give me Mar-a-Lago in sunny Palm Beach

Life on islands in the Western Pacific, near the equator, is much more affordable however. Saipan & Guam come to mind if you want to stay in the USA financial circles and English speaking places.

 

[Sal1950]

Life on islands in the Western Pacific, near the equator, is much more affordable however. Saipan & Guam come to mind if you want to stay in the USA financial circles and English speaking places.

I'm super comfortable here in Central Fl, both the climate and politics fit my lifestyle perfectly.

 

[Dialectic]

Life on islands in the Western Pacific, near the equator, is much more affordable however. Saipan & Guam come to mind if you want to stay in the USA financial circles and English speaking places.

Better yet, buy a yacht and register it in the Marshall Islands.

 

[EJ3]

Better yet, buy a yacht and register it in the Marshall Islands.

I was a resident of Saipan for 16 years. When I arrived there (Oct. 1 2003) there were 12 women for every man there.
I had never been married. But, at the age of 48 (in July of 2005) I got married there. In about 3 weeks we will have been married 21 years.
Many of the 24 people that I worked with there, most that were not already married, got married there before I did.
Some got divorced from the wife they already had when they arrived and got re-married there.
I've been told that there is something in the water there that causes that to happen.
We who experienced that, know it's not true.
The 12 to 1 ratio is no longer true.

 

[Flaesh]

Is this a real photo? Did someone buy it or is it the reviewer's room?

 

[Sal1950]

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Is this a real photo? Did someone buy it or is it the reviewer's room?

Yes, AFAIK it was taken in the The Audio Salon’s listening room discussed at Audiophile Style website.

https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/a-bit-more-time-with-the-wilson-audio-autobiography-r1437/

 

[cavedriver]

Yes, AFAIK it was taken in the The Audio Salon’s listening room discussed at Audiophile Style website.

https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/a-bit-more-time-with-the-wilson-audio-autobiography-r1437/

I have to wonder, when audio stores use rooms this narrow to demo equipment, how you can be assured they are maintaining a flat response given all the wall reflections they are clearly having to deal with. I see a lot of treatment there, but mostly for higher frequencies (?), and I appreciate that it's easy these days to mic your room and use DSP to correct for a fairly flat in-room response, but without some kind of de-convolution algorithm, wouldn't the early reflections still unacceptably muddle the sound?

 

[Geert]

I have to wonder, when audio stores use rooms this narrow to demo equipment, how you can be assured they are maintaining a flat response given all the wall reflections they are clearly having to deal with.

Technical details don't matter to true audiophiles, they listen for musicality

 

[Billy Budapest]

lol @ that carpet

Money can’t account for taste.

 

[TehMowat]

I have to wonder, when audio stores use rooms this narrow to demo equipment, how you can be assured they are maintaining a flat response given all the wall reflections they are clearly having to deal with. I see a lot of treatment there, but mostly for higher frequencies (?), and I appreciate that it's easy these days to mic your room and use DSP to correct for a fairly flat in-room response, but without some kind of de-convolution algorithm, wouldn't the early reflections still unacceptably muddle the sound?

Have you ever been to a showroom? How many perfectly sized listening rooms have you ever seen in houses? I have been in this business for over 20 years, selling systems just like this, and I can tell you it is far, far more common that people put their systems in whatever room they have available, not this perfectly ratio'd and designed room that you people have in your head. Dedicated listening rooms with engineered acoustic treatments to the degree many of you here think is required are absolutely the minority, definitely

 

[Sal1950]

Have you ever been to a showroom? How many perfectly sized listening rooms have you ever seen in houses? I have been in this business for over 20 years, selling systems just like this, and I can tell you it is far, far more common that people put their systems in whatever room they have available, not this perfectly ratio'd and designed room that you people have in your head. Dedicated listening rooms with engineered acoustic treatments to the degree many of you here think is required are absolutely the minority, definitely

At 15' wide that is a bit narrow for a speaker this size but I suspect that Santa Monica, CA dealer has a good sized client list of listeners that can afford a close to 1 million $ speaker, and the appropriately sized/treated room for it. So they present it in the room they have, very heavily treated BTW, with a good tale spinner to sell it to them.
They probably wouldn't let me in the door. LOL

 

[Ropeburn]

At 15' wide that is a bit narrow for a speaker this size but I suspect that Santa Monica, CA dealer has a good sized client list of listeners that can afford a close to 1 million $ speaker, and the appropriately sized/treated room for it. So they present it in the room they have, very heavily treated BTW, with a good tale spinner to sell it to them.
They probably wouldn't let me in the door. LOL

Typo of the week. They can't let you into the door because the 15 foot wide speaker - a bit narrow - is blocking it.

 

[Sal1950]

Typo of the week. They can't let you into the door because the 15 foot wide speaker - a bit narrow - is blocking it.

HEY, I'm not THAT FAT. LOL