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In the Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers

Post Subject: Missing the pointPosted by Romy the Cat on: 8/13/2009

Stitch,

When I hear people defend audio reviewing in present form (as most of the industry establishment do) or offend it (as I do) I think they both miss the point. I was truly laughing reading the comments after the Jacob Heilbrunn’s post where all imaginary industry players come together to defend or deny the audio gifts, free loans and those soft of things. Take the same David Wilson, create a circumstance where he might not be hurt, ask him about the industry and about the very same people who made his business to kiss David’s ass during his diarrhea. The truth is that EACH AND SINGLE audio manufacture has inherent deep abhorrence and revulsion of those blood-sucking marketing leaches, they just can’t escape of that dirt as the marketing people are actually are plugged in the distribution process and in reality make living for manufactures. Those marketing sleazeballs take it all very seriously but they cannot imagine how much we, the sane audio peoples do not care if the Mike Framer bought, sold and got his Wilsons as a gift.

People try to find justifications for reviewers’ preference in the reviewers’ personal agendas, corruption, listening ignorance, cultural limitations of just in the personal idiocy. That all might be the cases but it ALSO misses the point. The missed point is that those good or bad reviewers with this beast or worst intentions, in most of the cases still do not say anything important or meaningful about audio products. Let take the same Mike Framer with his long-lasting infatuation with MAXX. As many times the Framer opened his mouth about his speakers I always ask myself – are the MAXXes so bad that Framer not able to say anything intelligent about them? There is absolutely nothing in all BS that he expressed about his MAXX that make his expressions to be attributable to MAXX. This is an example where criticism does not rise to the level of a creation, which is a typical– we know much more talented composers then talented musical critics… Anyhow, I understand why David keeps Framer around on a leash. Framer sells to public the notion that Small Wilsons (including 6, 7 and MAXX) has some attributers of quality the Big Wilsons have (Grand Slam and Alexandria). It is not that big Wilsons are flawless but they are an accomplishment vs. the Small Wilsons are juts cashing out of the accomplishment. Here is where the whorish cheerleaders like Framer and alike do their job. In realty, in the coordinate system of audio thinking, all those Framer-Mickelson-level of people are no more than those guys who stay on street with signs informing that there are available parking spots on a given lot right next to the stadium where Red Socks is playing….

So, what is the Missing Point in all of it? The Missing Point is that the audio equipment in reality is NEVER GOT TRULY REVIEWED by official industry and by public opinion, even if it has many published reviewers and many sold customers. The more complex audio component is the more true capacity of the component eludes to be exposed in the typical stupid audio reviews that we are accustomed. With the example of Wilsons, I do not read all of the reviews and I do not read them attentively, but from what I am familiar I do not feel that anything ever was said sensibly in “reviews” about the sound of Big Wilsons.

The Cat

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