Sasha mini-review

Nice write up Marc. Glad to hear your impressions. The Sasha's certainly add some realism to listening to recorded music. And I agree regarding volume... but find now I seldom listen at 70db volumes, going instead for high 80 - low 90 dbs (and sometime more) 'cause that is closer to what I might hear "live". The Sasha's, I'm sure, will remain tight and coherent beyond my what my amp (ARC Ref 110) can muster.
 
Marc, congrats on the Sasha. I heard them briefly and really liked them. By any chance, did you listen to the B&W 800 Diamond? Seems like that is the natural competitor for the Sasha. The 802diamond is certainly an excellent value in the 15k range, but one would hope a 28k speaker would beat them rather handily. Curious if the 800Diamond ups the ante to the Sasha league.
 
Marc, congrats on the Sasha. I heard them briefly and really liked them. By any chance, did you listen to the B&W 800 Diamond? Seems like that is the natural competitor for the Sasha. The 802diamond is certainly an excellent value in the 15k range, but one would hope a 28k speaker would beat them rather handily. Curious if the 800Diamond ups the ante to the Sasha league.

Thanks! I never heard the 800 Diamond, but since I owned several products in the B&W (Diamond and non-diamond) lineup, am very familiar with their strengths and weaknesses, and I know for a fact that the 800 uses the same tweeter and midrange as the 802, I decided to change it up completely. I personally feel that the Sasha is in another league, but I still would never say anything bad about the Diamond series. I think they are all a great value across the board. The Sasha can just do things I feel the others can't. It's got incredible microdynamics, detail, depth, bass that other speakers in that size can only dream about. And it's made in the US, which I really prefer. When I visited the fine folks at Wilson's facility, that sealed the deal for me. A CEO that takes 20 minutes out of his day randomly (not scheduled at all) to talk to a potential customer about audio in general WITHOUT pushing his product?...well that is just downright impressive. The product pushes itself.
 
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Wow Marc !!! Absolutely beautiful !!!! Congrats !!
 
Just to take this off in an other direction for a moment. I have just come from the biggest car show I have ever been to. Your car which I think is a Camaro and the Chevelle 396 were the most prominent cars of the show. The show was billed as 8000 cars and they probally got that.
 
Just to take this off in an other direction for a moment. I have just come from the biggest car show I have ever been to. Your car which I think is a Camaro and the Chevelle 396 were the most prominent cars of the show. The show was billed as 8000 cars and they probally got that.

Are you talking about my Camaro?
 
Thanks! I never heard the 800 Diamond, but since I owned several products in the B&W (Diamond and non-diamond) lineup, am very familiar with their strengths and weaknesses, and I know for a fact that the 800 uses the same tweeter and midrange as the 802, I decided to change it up completely. I personally feel that the Sasha is in another league, but I still would never say anything bad about the Diamond series. I think they are all a great value across the board. The Sasha can just do things I feel the others can't. It's got incredible microdynamics, detail, depth, bass that other speakers in that size can only dream about. And it's made in the US, which I really prefer. When I visited the fine folks at Wilson's facility, that sealed the deal for me. A CEO that takes 20 minutes out of his day randomly (not scheduled at all) to talk to a potential customer about audio in general WITHOUT pushing his product?...well that is just downright impressive. The product pushes itself.

Marc,

Once again, congrats on the Sashas. Very nice room and setup.

Also, yes, the Wilson folks are very nice. I met Debbie at RMAF last year and she was very nice. I suppose it is part of the family culture and values.

Mike
 
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