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In the Thread: About Wilson Audio Loudspeakers

Post Subject: The Wilson effectPosted by el`Ol on: 8/15/2009

I twice had the opportunity to listen to a Wilson: The Puppy 8 combined with a Lamm power amp and the latest Maxx with Soulution electronics. Both times my impression was that there is some characteristic shining or radiance probably induced by the breakup of carbon-doped paper cones in combination with the anorganic-particle-doped acrylate enclosures and the slightly metallic signature of the titanium tweeters. I couldn´t find anything special apart from that, i.e. no particular strengths or weaknesses. In fact the sonic signature was so different that listening to the Maxx directly after listening to an ESL I didn´t have the feeling of listening to just an other dynamic speaker again, and I can imagine that for some bathing-in-sound audiophiles this is a reason for placing Wilsons over all other speakers in the world. But I would NEVER call them references due to the very subjective nature of this effect.
Did anyone else here have the same sensation?

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