DESCRIPTION :

Every Sabrina crossover is a solitary work of art, each built individually to match the reference crossover. Wilson mandates tolerances that are as stringent as plus-or-minus point-two percent (two-tenths of a percent)—much more exacting than what even the best individual components can achieve. While other high-end manufacturers accept this lack of precision as au fait, and crank out tin-soldier crossovers, Wilson believes that the owner of any of its products should hear precisely what Dave and the engineers heard when they signed off on the final prototype.

When designing the Sabrina crossover, proprietary measures were taken to reduce distortion along with its deleterious audible effects. Bass performance and dynamic contrast that met or exceeded Wilson’s standards was a primary design goal—made challenging by Sabrina’s a relatively compact enclosure volume. Continuous refinements in crossover topologies and specific component choices were made in large part with this in mind. The engineers at Wilson Audio employ proprietary modeling software, developed largely in-house, which considers and helps identify time-domain variables within the crossover other designers simply ignore. Subsequent listening and meticulous crossover component refinements verifies empirically the veracity of any given design choice. The metric used to gauge success is measured not solely by technical analysis, but through the methodical comparison to live, unamplified music.

Lowering noise and distortion in the Sabrina allowed the design team to hear “deeper” into the loudspeaker. Problems and unwanted sonic artifacts that would otherwise be obscured are clearly audible and, in turn, more easily addressed and removed. Reducing time-domain distortion with it decreases deleterious grain structure and improves settling time—a salient strength of Sabrina. Sabrina’s remarkable bass performance, a canny combination of speed and authority, were some of the dividends paid by the engineer’s innovative work on the low-pass portion of Sabrina’s crossover. Midrange transient speed, tonal beauty, transparency, spatial resolution, bass alacrity, and dynamic expression—and, most importantly, a consummate verisimilitude to the live musical event, all traditional strengths of Wilson loudspeakers, are present in full measure in Sabrina.