Well The Speakers Arrived on Friday. Like all things that are almost a generation old, they have a story that wasn't shared. The original creates that came from Galen Carol back in the 90's, were time capsules. Physically, these speakers could be a week old. No nicks, dings or any other signs of physical infraction. However, the promised complete accessories and and manual were a little short of the mark. The manual is as if it was printed yesterday, perfect. The accessories themselves amounted to the small diodes and spikes and not the long, threaded posts and spacers and no casters and no optional tuning port and no tools. The casters were easily resolved with some hardware store 3/8 - 16 threaded casters. After I peeled back the original factory foam grills I noticed that the tweeters weren't perfect. At some point someone had used a pencil eraser to try to shape them, and big disappointment here. They play fine but damn what was the original owner thinking. I guess that after a few years they lost interest and just let them exist. My local Wilson dealer is on the case and is ordering new tweeters for me and best of all they'll come to the house to replace them. Sure it's an unexpected expense, but I expected something, as these purchases can be too good to be true. The good news is that I love the sound and I'm happy with the purchase. Yes I'll be a little over their resale value, but hell I'll get plenty of time with these. Down the road, these will become the part of a second system that I'm planning and I'm starting to look for another pair of Wilson's. On another note, I've moved up the Siltech line of Speaker Cabling and they do sound really good even after a few days of breaking in.
