Get the best speaker you can afford now. Actually, get a *better* speaker than you can afford and then start saving for an amp
Consider the system as an whole and a time schedule to get it. In my very humble opinion selecting just the speaker can lead to a financial and spiritual disaster.
Again IMVHO without knowing musical preferences, space and total budget no one can give any useful advise.
I have experience with both the Alexia and Sasha - both are excellent speakers, but the Sasha's need a different approach from the Alexia's. But my heart would go towards the Alexia's proposition!
Come on microstrip!!
he/she is choosing within the same family of speakers, same brand.. Don't make it more complicated than it is .. he/she gets the best speaker he/she can afford and will later dwell ad aeternum on the amplifier.. Both amps are excellent ..
Consider the system as an whole and a time schedule to get it. In my very humble opinion selecting just the speaker can lead to a financial and spiritual disaster.
Sorry to say, but IMHO this nonchalant style get the best speaker you can and then wait for the lottery is poor advice, and most of the the time results in dissatisfied customers.
Both amps are excellent if properly matched with speakers, cables and sources. Do you have direct experience with them driving very different Wilson speakers? I owned Alexia's , a good close friend owns the Sasha's. We have made a lot of experiences with them, but not with those amplifiers.
Sorry to say, but IMHO this nonchalant style get the best speaker you can and then wait for the lottery is poor advice, and most of the the time results in dissatisfied customers. If you look at opinions about Wilson speakers you will see a bipolar pattern - mostly due to those who listened to them in poor conditions or in well matched and setup systems. And yes, the high-end is a very complicated game. Making an inadequate and limited system (stereo) sound glorious is not an easy job. Surely, YMMV.
David says the Speaker is the most important, so I am very hesitant.
wilson audio alexia + Gryphon Diablo 300 or sasha2+Boulder 1010 1060
I wonder which combo should be my first choice if they have the same budget.Thank you.
Better speaker now, and then build up for the amp, but you should hear the combo with your destination amp(s) to know where you are headed and decide to be patient, else you will think it's your speaker that's poor. Other strategy is to do what LL21 is doing. He has built up his electronics and is waiting for his final speaker that uses the same electronics, but then he has a very.good speaker now anyway. Given his electronics can be built up easier due to lower budget than the speaker, that makes sense.
The other thing is I have never heard a Wilson sound better with SS than with valves. The only SS combo I liked was when I heard the Alexandria X2S2 with dan momentum agostino and the pre, so i assume very high end SS amps can, but otherwise with valves they sounded much better. And even there I missed a valve in the chain. Alexia also sounded nice with a Reimyo. I am not a Wilson fan except for the Alexandrias, so YMMV
If someone already knows which are bad amps and speakers, then they can avoid both and be golden.If you get the opportunity, here is a little experiment .Take a bad speaker, and pair it with an excellent amp. Then take a bad amp and pair it with an excellent speaker. The answer will be obvious.
(...) The other thing is I have never heard a Wilson sound better with SS than with valves. The only SS combo I liked was when I heard the Alexandria X2S2 with dan momentum agostino and the pre, so i assume very high end SS amps can, but otherwise with valves they sounded much better. And even there I missed a valve in the chain. Alexia also sounded nice with a Reimyo. I am not a Wilson fan except for the Alexandrias, so YMMV
. . . The other thing is I have never heard a Wilson sound better with SS than with valves. . . . with valves they sounded much better. . . . .
If someone already knows which are bad amps and speakers, then they can avoid both and be golden.
David says the Speaker is the most important, so I am very hesitant.
wilson audio alexia + Gryphon Diablo 300 or sasha2+Boulder 1010 1060
I wonder which combo should be my first choice if they have the same budget.Thank you.
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