Wilson driver material not acceptable for high end speakers today

No dog, I'd say, you'd have to have blinders on to be in the same room with Gobel. LOLOL

Priaptor said:
I am pretty amazed at the comments here. It is pretty insulting to those who own and cherish their Wilsons. I got spurned for questioning the Magico business model but 6 pages of insulting Wilson is OK? Don't get it.

First off, Wilson still outsells all others by far. Second, they are very well accepted for their looks and in fact the number one seller, by far, to the "rich and famous" up here in Palm Beach; yes based on looks and by far more acceptable to designers than any Magico. As to the materials they use, too much hype about what manufacturers use with too little listening.

Years ago, I owned Watt/Puppies with Spectral which I loved. Moved to the bigger Grand Slam, which others LOVED but I couldn't stand. Haven't owned Wilson since so I have no dog in this discussion other than to give me two cents as to insults.
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Bar81 said:
Wilsons look like trash cans or robots on the very high end. I don't mind the look personally but they definitely are not attractive speakers - probably the worst WAF of any well known high end speaker.
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Ha, ha ,

Thats so ridonculous ....... :)
 
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Hilarious comments.

I love the look of my Maxx 3's. They are just so alien, evil and nasty looking - My wife and girls hate the look - makes me love the look even more.:D

do not like the of the Alexia look - like a large wide rugby player with no neck and a small head. :weird: the new Sasha's look great imo.

Magico S series just looks like a half cut piece of plastic plumbing pipe with black cover and drivers shoved on the front, and they always look like they will topple over :weird:- can't stand them personally.

The Q and M series look awesome thou, although Magico might be taking the curved corners a little too far now.

no one would ever call Avantgarde speakers good looking. The classic creme with wood magnepan speakers is vomit worthy.
you could go on and on.


clearly most audiophiles buy on sound, not how good looking the speaker is, which is the way it should be.
 
XV-1 said:
Hilarious comments.

I love the look of my Maxx 3's. They are just so alien, evil and nasty looking - My wife and girls hate the look - makes me love the look even more.:D

do not like the of the Alexia look - like a large wide rugby player with no neck and a small head. :weird: the new Sasha's look great imo.

Magico S series just looks like a half cut piece of plastic plumbing pipe with black cover and drivers shoved on the front, and they always look like they will topple over :weird:- can't stand them personally.

The Q and M series look awesome thou, although Magico might be taking the curved corners a little too far now.

no one would ever call Avantgarde speakers good looking. The classic creme with wood magnepan speakers is vomit worthy.
you could go on and on.


clearly most audiophiles buy on sound, not how good looking the speaker is, which is the way it should be.
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Quite the contrary. I hear repeatedly how much both the men and women who come into the store like them. The lady yesterday loved the look of them, especially in the Berma Blue. A few weeks ago, another lady commented, “they look like music.”
 
Mike said:
Quite the contrary. I hear repeatedly how much both the men and women who come into the store like them. The lady yesterday loved the look of them, especially in the Berma Blue. A few weeks ago, another lady commented, “they look like music.”
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This thread started as bashing Wilson for using crappy materials to bashing them for the way they look and truth is Mike, no matter the anecdote you quote regarding horns, most sane people who are not audiophiles would laugh at what we audiophiles find "attractive".

We can all decide to be delusional in our perspectives but it all comes down, ultimately, to how it sounds and what we rationalize as "good looking".
 
Aw, no comment yet. Before I forget I want to make sure you know I was just messing with you. I'm really not a good judge of what looks good or bad.

My wife don't like the look of my current speakers. The only speaker she ever, ever, said looked good, was the revel studio 2 when I had them in for audition. I think it was price that made me not buy them but if I was smart I should have taken the opportunity since she was on board, LOL

Priaptor said:
I am pretty amazed at the comments here. It is pretty insulting to those who own and cherish their Wilsons. I got spurned for questioning the Magico business model but 6 pages of insulting Wilson is OK? Don't get it.

First off, Wilson still outsells all others by far. Second, they are very well accepted for their looks and in fact the number one seller, by far, to the "rich and famous" up here in Palm Beach; yes based on looks and by far more acceptable to designers than any Magico. As to the materials they use, too much hype about what manufacturers use with too little listening.

Years ago, I owned Watt/Puppies with Spectral which I loved. Moved to the bigger Grand Slam, which others LOVED but I couldn't stand. Haven't owned Wilson since so I have no dog in this discussion other than to give me two cents as to insults.
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Richard Vandersteen is a highly respected speaker manufacturer. As are Wilson Audio and others using different materials. Wilson uses very advanced electronic means of every sort in their research. Due to the size of their business worldwide they can afford and have the best, so I'm sure this sort of information is old news to them. Mr. V's points taken alone with out response from others significant players is interesting but relatively meaningless. But, as has been said, how a speaker sounds to each of us the ultimate measure of quality.
 
I think the worst problem with paper cones can be the humidity.
I get sick when I see some signals of it on them ...
 
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