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The virtues of the original MAXX remain intact, including its revolutionary Propagation Delay Correction mechanism, which allows precise alignment of the upper drivers in the time and phase domain. The brass alignment block typifies the level of manufacturing finesse employed in the construction of MAXX. It allows the owner to choose one of 35 discrete positions for correcting the time domain of t...[more]

A STRIKING NEW VISION, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM The original MAXX arrived with a clear design objective: create a loudspeaker endowed with similar authority and dynamic range as Wilson's flagship speaker, but in a less complex and demanding package. In the intervening years, Dave Wilson and his design team discovered ways to improve the MAXX, hence the Series...[more]

The WATT is the original precision, compact high-end loudspeaker, a highly specialized location monitor. The Puppy is a fast, powerful woofer. Together, they fill your room with dynamic, full-bodied, shockingly lifelike music, or outgun any speaker of comparable size in a home theater system. It’s no accident that the WATT/Puppy performance comes in a compact design, and with our trademark Wilsong...[more]

Wilson's unique materials research has led to the first new WATT cabinet in its 17-year history. For the first time, the Puppy has a new driver. And to better integrate the two, countless hours were spent refining the crossover. The changes appear subtle; the difference they make is not. In terms of resolution, coherence, bass speed and impact, an already great loudspeaker has been raised to a...[more]

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...[more]

The tweeter portion of the Sasha Series-2 Wilson's Audio baffle is now made from the latest generation of X-Material, like in the Alexia. The midrange portion of the baffle continues to be S-material. S-material was developed specifically for use in midrange baffles, and is a wonder of midrange beauty and low-resonance. In combination with X-material, S-material reduces measurable and audible n...[more]

Succession is a fact of life in both royal dynasties and venerable audio products. It inevitably calls forth complex emotions, hence the resonance of the phrase above, reputedly first uttered upon the death of Charles VI of France, and thereafter part of the ritual of ascension in many European countries, including England. For the past 23 years, no product represented the soul and history...[more]

Sophia™, the newest loudspeaker from Wilson Audio, is the result of the knowledge gained in over a quarter century of building uncompromised audio products for the home and the recording studio. The design objective for Sophia was at once simple and challenging: to build a single cabinet, floor-standing loudspeaker that could provide a level of musical enjoyment comparable to Wilson Audio's mu...[more]

When Sophia was introduced in 2001, it quickly knocked the audio world on its ear, collected rave reviews in all sectors of the audio press, and achieved a kind of cult status.It is no small thing to improve upon something so special as Sophia. The design team knew that in developing Alexandria X-2, MAXX Series 2, and the new Duette, they had uncovered new technologies that, if applied to Sophia, ...[more]

Dave Wilson once observed that, when the original Sophia was launched in 2001, it was inevitably described in the audio press as Wilson Audio's "entry-level" floor-standing loudspeaker. While Sophia remains Wilson's most affordable floorstander, focusing on price obscures an important fact—which was that price was incidental to Sophia's actual design object...[more]