Any normal people other than "audio journalists" hear this speaker?
Any good, or hype?
Any normal people other than "audio journalists" hear this speaker?
Any good, or hype?
If by normal, you mean any non-reviewer the answer is yes. Significantly more non-reviewers have heard it than have reviewers, including dealers, distributors, customers, and the entirety of the Wilson staff.
For that kind of timing (2 microseconds stated in the video), by definition and by virtue of the exact placements for timing of all the drivers, you must have your head in a vise.
I would assume it has nothing to do with time alignment and everything to do with driver interaction, baffle step, diffraction, etc, because it makes no sense that only Wilson has discovered this paramount thing no physcist would ever agree with. So I am sure there are wrong and right adjustmets, but the whole "time alignment" reason is probably fluff.
Pretty much what everyone says until they actually hear it and move their head and then move around the room.
For that kind of timing (2 microseconds stated in the video), by definition and by virtue of the exact placements for timing of all the drivers, you must have your head in a vise.
If that is the case, it isn't the timing they like, it's something else.
You can't have perfect timing everywhere if you have to tilt and telescope the drivers for the 2 microseconds in the sweet spot, otherwise you wouldn't have to have modular, movable driver bins.
I don't doubt that the speaker sounds great, but I doubt it is the 2 microsecond timing.
Come to think of it, since when do all the instruments in the orchestra have perfect unified timing and phase?
I have a time domain circuit in my system and it does make a difference. I describe it as cupping your hands behind your ears,as everything is intensified and the soundstage can be listened to completely off axis. Have not heard the Wilson's but if my experience is different maybe my circuit is not time domain correcting.
The timing can be (and is) measured at the listening position.
The relational timing of the various /instruments/sections of the orchestra on an absolute basis is not relevant to the speaker alignment. It's the point in time/place at which all of that is is captured (microphone) that determines the timing used to align. In fact, if properly rendered by the speaker alignment, all of the timing vagaries you suggest should be preserved and as easily apparent in playback as they were in the hall.
Not sure what your circuit is or what it is doing. It is easy to listen to WAMM off axis however I'm not sure what exactly you mean by intensified so I can't comment on that.
You cannot set up the speaker, tilt and telescope the driver bins for the sweet spot center chair position and then say you can walk around the room and it will all be time aligned where ever you are. That's playing both sides of the fence.
An orchestra is going to sound different in different parts of a hall and likewise a speaker will sound different as you walk around the room.
Steve Williams Site Founder | Site Owner | Administrator | Ron Resnick Site Co-Owner | Administrator | Julian (The Fixer) Website Build | Marketing Managersing |