New Wilson Audio flagship speakers

[Flaesh]

Let them install a couple of those Wilson speakers there.

 

[Sal1950]

This one will do (given the times, a bullet proof hull is a necessity when you have a 1500 mile range):

Just a hole in the water to throw a lot of money into. LOL
I'd rather this one,

 

[EJ3]

Just a hole in the water to throw a lot of money into. LOL
I'd rather this one,

The idea is to live on the 70 full time.
A Then the next idea is something fast that can handle 100 miles of open ocean but at least 300 miles of range.
And keep my skin cancer riddled body out of direct sun.
My current water toy (got a long way to go:

But the view is cool!

 

[Chrispy]

LOL

 

[Chrispy]

Such a ridiculous brand

 

[Sal1950]

The idea is to live on the 70 full time.

I don't think you can park that 70 at your dock.

 

[Sal1950]

Such a ridiculous brand

There's a few more too. LOL

 

[EJ3]

I don't think you can park that 70 at your dock.

Yeeah, I've had a 44 there but it was real bitch to get turned around (at full high tide). At dead low, there is 5" just in front of the floating dock.

 

[DavidMcRoy]

Made for each other

 

[Sal1950]

Made for each other

And you can buy it without credit background. LOL

 

[Ropeburn]

Made for each otherView attachment 557912

Cushions and drivers correlate 1:1

 

[Sokel]

Cushions and drivers correlate 1:1

Ultra-near-field lovers could hang a pair of monitors by this, right against their ears

 

[Flaesh]

An ordinary scorpion chair. Is the front half missing?

 

[Cote Dazur]

Expecting “performance” from this speaker is like expecting a multi million dollars watch to give a different time than a timex. It is not about performance, it is about exclusivity.
Past a certain price point, you pay for owning uniqueness.
Still would love to hear them in a proper set up, would be interesting to see what sighted bias can really do.
As someone who spend time every day listening to a few albums in an attentive manner, such extravagant speakers are fascinating, over the top has its charm.
Let’s be clear, I would not like them in my house even if they were normally priced, but I get that someone with different taste could enjoy the terminator look.

 

[egellings]

I certainly wouldn't curbside 'em.

 

[TehMowat]

I'm n

…at least six…?

Don’t you know?

I'm not a sales guy, I'm the service guy, I fix stuff and keep clients happy.

 

[TehMowat]

I suppose I should feel honored to be in the company of a titan of the high-end audio industry!

Not six, "at least six."

At some of the high-end audio stores from which I chose not to buy, I heard vague anecdotes about selling so many Accuphase amplifiers, or so many B&W 802s, or a gazillion-dollar system to a "baller" who had to remain nameless due to an NDA, etc. I was always skeptical of those stories and remain so. I suspect that even some of the more robust stores in Asia don't manage a huge volume of business.

I also was advised at a U.S. high end audio store, as a selling point to convince me to buy an Accuphase amplifier, that the store could "buy back" the amplifier from me within the first year after purchase at retail minus a restocking fee. The salesperson told me that, as long as they had the box and all the accessories, it could be resold as new under their agreement with the U.S. distributor. (I have no idea if that's true, but I swear, that's what he told me!) They could sell the same "new" Accuphase amplifier six times!

EDIT: Here's a seemingly genuine Reddit post on this point.

https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/13yxa2o/who_is_buying_all_this_high_end_audio

Seems accurate to me. I'm in a nice neighborhood and live across the street from a house that, until recent renovations, had a complete hardwood basketball court in a faux French chateau building next to it (the basketball court building was added by the NBA all-star who lived there in the 1990s and early 2000s; it was converted into a standalone house during the pandemic). I've seen media rooms around here but never, not once, a real high-end audio setup.

That is a lot of words to call me a liar.

 

[fpitas]

Sometimes I think extreme wealth affects the eyesight.

 

[TehMowat]

wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that having the midrange units sitting proud of the cabinet is automatically a “bad design”. Acoustically, whether a driver is recessed or slightly protruding only matters once the wavelengths are small enough for the edges to become significant. For most of the midrange band, the wavelengths are still large compared to those little geometric details, so the physics simply don’t support the idea that this alone ruins the response.

What actually would be interesting to know is the crossover strategy. If this system is meant to behave like a kind of D’Appolito arrangement, then the two 2‑inch domes need to be managed very carefully. If both of them were playing the same upper‑mid frequencies at full level, then yes, their spacing could create interference at higher frequencies. But that’s not the only way to design it. You can avoid that entirely by letting one of the domes roll off earlier and letting the other carry the higher part of the band. That way the effective radiating area shrinks with rising frequency, and the interference problem simply doesn’t appear.

Without knowing the actual crossover topology, slopes, and target curves, we’re all just guessing. The visible edges are the least interesting part of the whole design; the real story is hidden in the filter network, not in whether the drivers sit flush or proud of the cabinet.

I dont know man, it sounds like you might know something about speaker design, are you sure you should be posting here? This forum is already convinced these are horrible speakers.

 

[Dialectic]

That is a lot of words to call me a liar.

You have mistaken a generalized skepticism of the high-end audio industry for a personal accusation. Some of us have heard too many preposterous stories from your colleagues to believe anything we hear about sales volumes, and "at least six" was something of a red flag. If the weight of your colleagues' tales is too burdensome for your conscience, I suggest an exit from the high-end audio business.

Just yesterday I heard some obvious puffery from a car dealership - "we pre-sell all of our cars before we get them" (then how are there dozens of new, unsold cars in the lot?) - but that statement pales in comparison to the nonsense that emanates from the high-end audio industry!