Starting Point - Bob's new room and Alexia's new home

Wow!!! What a room. I just love it. Your attention to detail is outstanding. Great job! Would love to hear it.
 
Bob, great looking room.

Wonder if your WA dealer will use these to set up your speakers:

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XV-1 said:
How much are these sliders? They slide over wood?

I use Herbies spike decoupling gliders under my Maxx3's which work very well. Will the Wilson sliders sound better?
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These are simply discs for setting up the speakers. Once the position is precisely determined, the speaker is jacked up and the sliders are removed.
 
XV-1 said:
$800. You have to be kidding me.

Does Wilson provide these sliders as part of any new floor standing speaker?
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As metaphacts has pointed out, these were designed as a dealer installation tool, allowing for the installation of the WA spikes, leveling and then fine tuning the final positions.

I don't know when the sliders were introduced.

When my WASP was done, my WA dealer didn't have them, but I think they're would be a very effective tool in the hands of a properly trained WA dealer.
 
mauidan said:
As metaphacts has pointed out, these were designed as a dealer installation tool, allowing for the installation of the WA spikes, leveling and then fine tuning the final positions.

I don't know when the sliders were introduced.

When my WASP was done, my WA dealer didn't have them, but I think they're would be a very effective tool in the hands of a properly trained WA dealer.
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Dan these sliders are made for us, not by us. We don't have many made, further increasing their price. They were never meant to be a product. They only make sense if they will be in use constantly. We've been using them for over a year.

They are on the website because end users (Wilson and non-Wilson owners) who saw them in use at dealers expressed a desire to own them. Despite our warnings that they would be very expensive, end users persisted. So they have recently been made available.

Hope this helps.
 
Absolutely beautiful room and view. I am sure that you are glad to have one foot over the finish line! One of the best rooms that I have seen anywhere and I hope that I get to hear it someday. Happy listening and see you at a PAC meeting sometime soon.
 
My speaker setup guy from Seattle came down Saturday and spent better part of 6 hours getting the Alexias sounding their best in the new space. Sonically, listening to "Stimella" on Hugh Masakela's HOPE lp, there is a large percussive climax near the end of the song that in the prior space just became a bit of a hot mess—the energy just got the room too excited and the sound became confused. Sure the transient attacks were there, but overall things kind of went to hell. Now, after the remodel, I am able to crank it and that climax remains clear and focused. On that score, the remodel is a huge success—big orchestral crescendos remain tightly focused, to the point where the little REF75 with KT150s might actually start to show a little weakness.

Now with speaker's in position and the vinyl cabinet installed, here's the final result—we even moved some vases from a local artist down into the room and they fit in perfectly.

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One more from the listening position, with Merlin the cat giving his "cat's meow" symbol of approval.

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Superb setup, I hope you you'll enjoy it.

PS: On Stimela, I think it's also the levels of percussion layering in at the beginning, which will reveal quite a bit about the setup [emoji3].


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Stimela is difficult from beginning to end , wide and deep soundstage , strong audience activity in the back ground , superb macro and micro dynamics and to top it off a strong emotional performance from Masekela ..

Regards
 
Right on Bob! Good to hear the new room is sounding good.


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a.wayne said:
Stimela is difficult from beginning to end , wide and deep soundstage , strong audience activity in the back ground , superb macro and micro dynamics and to top it off a strong emotional performance from Masekela ..

Regards
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No problem for these...

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a.wayne said:
Stimela is difficult from beginning to end , wide and deep soundstage , strong audience activity in the back ground , superb macro and micro dynamics and to top it off a strong emotional performance from Masekela ..

Regards
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wouldn't it be glorious though if all recordings sounded as good ?
 
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