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Post Subject: New WAMM: time-aligned but "angled".Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/9/2017
It is great that Wilson did anything like this, thank for
pointing out. I did not read the article passing 3rd paragraph and stooped
reading when they start taking about listening impressions. The listening
impressions from those people are truly irrelevant. They are industry pimps and
they characteristically run mouth admirably about any product, converting any manufacturer’s
fart into own public listening orgasm. I do not waste my time to read their foolishness.
Regarding WAMM. It is largely aligned with my general criticism
of large Wilsons that is well covered at my site. The largest Wilsons has some unique
wonderful characteristics that are so welcomed me and this is way I feel that
for being as good as they and being as ambitions as they are the largest Wilsons
should not slip upon the same problems as Alexandria had. I would be not the person
who object more channels and time alignment, after all this is very much aligns
with my Macondo Axioms. Still to have a “aggressive” project and to base it
upon a ported bass is kind of incongruous or even better to say laughable.
The whole lower octave solution in WAMM is kind of primitive.
I think they use up all budget of $700K for upper range drivers and juts cheated
with bass. Well, I do not think they lost budget on driver but rather on the necessity
to feed the industry assholes who will be selling the new speaker to public but
this is a whole another subject. Back to bass. It is possible that is some kind
“perfect” room the location of WAMM’s bass section will be perfect for this
room. I did hear Grand Slamms and Alexandria
many times and I did not hear them in THAT room. A separate sealed bass
sections located on sides of the WAMM would so much better solution that only
this would bring WAMM to very different category of loudspeakers. It is not to mention
that with no need to build up that large box under the bottom would drop the total
Hight of the speaker to sane level.
You see, the parabolic curvature that WAMM has is fine but because
the tweeter is much higher than it has to be for sitting listening position it
is angled down. Because of it the whole upper MF drivers (and they work as pair
of MTMs) are angled down. From a perfect time, alignment point of view it is
fine but only if time alignment idea is sold to the people who have no personal
experimentation with time alignment or brains to undusted what they are
listening. The idiots who wrote the article I guess the perfect target audiences.
In real world if a person spend time with time alignment experimentation the person
understands that quality of sound is not only derivative of time alignment in a
given listening point but also in the way how the playback is going away from time
alignment. This is why many people measure time alignment in multiple
locations, and multiple distances. The perfect scenario is when a line of perfect
alignment is parallel to the floor and there is absolutely nothing in WAMM that
prevent it… because the large stupid bass box at the bottom of the speaker. Keep the upper bass channel on the main body WAMM,
drop the main body of WAMM a foot lower and putt the lower bass driver in external
line array…. BOOM!!! and you have a VERY different acoustic system with by
topology able to deliver much more interesting result.
I do not think David Wilson does not know it but David is also
knowing that he does not make acoustic systems for discerning consumers. The
way how the industry work a manufacture makes products for a very thin layer of
uninformed, foolish and non- discriminating industry pimps who act as marketing
proxies. Being as senior player as David Wilson is he knows that elaborate and decorative
minimalism he did with WAMM is enough for the industry pimps to create the
right amount of talking points and to do sale. This is how the things work folks…
it has nothing to do with actual speakers and has more to do with a need to
create waves…. In term of Wilson releasing new models each few years and the
industry pimps discover a new Messiah each few years I this the ceremony is….
well time-aligned but slightly “angled”.
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