I'm looking ay these things and reading reviews, and walking away scratching my head. No, it's biased envy towards the people that buy them. These beasts do address shortcomings in multi driver designs with time alignment, and I've heard older Wilson's back in the audio showroom I used to work at, and they were very good. Wilson designs. particularly the larger ones have very little shortcomings. (and you pay dearly for that)
My issue is the design doesn't make sense compared to the problem it solves. It's like pushing a multi engine airplane with a single massive engine in the tail and using multiple mechanical transmissions to turn props in the wings. Plus, your engine is supplied by a 3rd party and you don't know the specs.
Large, multi driver designs can deliver superb dynamic transients, but can be problematic with trying to keep all those various drivers with different radiation patterns and often driver materials cohesive. Either or, your Xover design starts to get absurdly complex and begins to create it's own problems. The Chrono's have absurdly low impedance, right? That kind of allows us to reverse engineer the driver circuit and how Wilson attempts to circumvent crossover issues of this sort.
Ok, fine, but why do this? Just actively drive each driver module with it's own built in active amp, centralize an active crossover. which would allow you to tune that driver with parameters far beyond just moving the driver on a single axis. The degree of tuning with such a system, provided that's the intent would have to dwarf a passive design that slides drivers on rails. Sit back with your smart phone and tweak away.,
And the best part is - you control the whole system. I just can't wrap my head around having the large and complex a loud speaker and very $$$$ only to have to couple it with somebody elses amp.
I'm not picking on Wilson here, nor the people that buy them. Again, I love the sound of Wilson's I've heard in the past and their build quality is next level. It just seems with my limited knowledge of audio design that my concept would beat the Chronos at their own game, and likely cost a helluva lot less.
Comments? Ridicule?
My issue is the design doesn't make sense compared to the problem it solves. It's like pushing a multi engine airplane with a single massive engine in the tail and using multiple mechanical transmissions to turn props in the wings. Plus, your engine is supplied by a 3rd party and you don't know the specs.
Large, multi driver designs can deliver superb dynamic transients, but can be problematic with trying to keep all those various drivers with different radiation patterns and often driver materials cohesive. Either or, your Xover design starts to get absurdly complex and begins to create it's own problems. The Chrono's have absurdly low impedance, right? That kind of allows us to reverse engineer the driver circuit and how Wilson attempts to circumvent crossover issues of this sort.
Ok, fine, but why do this? Just actively drive each driver module with it's own built in active amp, centralize an active crossover. which would allow you to tune that driver with parameters far beyond just moving the driver on a single axis. The degree of tuning with such a system, provided that's the intent would have to dwarf a passive design that slides drivers on rails. Sit back with your smart phone and tweak away.,
And the best part is - you control the whole system. I just can't wrap my head around having the large and complex a loud speaker and very $$$$ only to have to couple it with somebody elses amp.
I'm not picking on Wilson here, nor the people that buy them. Again, I love the sound of Wilson's I've heard in the past and their build quality is next level. It just seems with my limited knowledge of audio design that my concept would beat the Chronos at their own game, and likely cost a helluva lot less.
Comments? Ridicule?
