Wilson Audio Watt/Puppy System 8

Hikejohn, I believe the most important rule is side by side comparison and i never compared sophia 2 with system 8 in A/B/A state.
i never listened to sophia 2 (i listened to sophia 1) and in my opinion W8 mid/high is more natural , more open, more relax and w8 was in another class.
I recently heard w7 with mark levinson setup.
w7 is good but in my idea w8 is more organic with better macro dynamic and more neutral mid. w8 in my opinion has very very good high in comparison with w7. extended , open and easy to my ears. w8 had better integration in mid and high with more accurate transition from mid to high.
again i say i never compared these units side by side and i agree my opinion can be change with comparing them side by side.
enjoy

Amir,
Your sonic comparison between the WP7s and WP8s is difficult to dispute. I recently listened to both, side-by-side, on the same system, with the same program material, in one of the great listening rooms in the country. I acknowledge all of the differences that you described. However, like Hikejohn, I feel that the WP8s are not the most emotionally engaging musical transducers. In fact, despite the undeniable superiority of the WP8s over the WP7s in smoothness, extension and resolution, I consistently found myself more involved with the music when listening to the WP7s. I found this to be particularly true with vocal material, and female vocals most consistently. The spine tingling rush elicited by listening to certain Anna Netrebkho, k. d. Lang and Sarah Vaughan recordings that seem so inevitable when listening to the WP7s did not happen with the WP8s. I find this very difficult to understand at an intellectual level but its as clear as can be for me at the emotional level.

Perhaps, I should mention that none of the other people that have listened with me during these sessions seemed to share my responses. Everybody else felt the better sound of the WP8s connected them at least as well with the music. So, what does this mean? Certainly it suggests that the enjoyment of recorded music is a pretty complicated process. It also suggests that better sound may not always yield more musical enjoyment. It most emphatically suggests that everyone has their own aesthetic sense and that this, in the end, is the most important factor governing our enjoyment of recorded music.

Siliab, Thanks So

I agree you, every body has own aesthetic sense.
In my idea taste is so important.
many of my friends love mark levinson warmness but i prefer krell cast and many like listening to wilson with Lamm but i like to listen wilson with krell evo one and two.

about W7 i need a good space and A/B test condition to write my view but i think dynamic driver speakers sound more lush when they work more.
I guess sound signature of Dynamic driver loudspeakers change across time and they reduce sense of solidity and fastness but increase sense of liquidity and lushness.
I'm not sure but may be in your A/B test W8 needed more time for full break-in.
Enjoy
Amir

Amir,

You may be correct about the relative amount of play-time on the drivers being a factor in this comparison, although the pair of WP8s I listened to had many hundreds of hours on them. Interestingly, it didn't seem to me that any difference in liquidity or lushness were the factors that led me to favor the WP7s. In fact, I'd say that the WP8s were more liquid and no less lush than the WP7s.

Although my powers of description are probably not up to the task, I would like to say that the thing I was reacting to was more of the sense of being within the acoustic bubble with the singers and musicians with the WP7s. The picture drawn by the WP8s was more detailed but slightly more remote, as if the acoustic bubble extended right up to where I listened but stopped there. This was a sensation that I've also had with various Kharma speakers, which are fantastically detailed and lush, but just don't captivate me. I didn't perceive this as a deficiency in imaging or soundstaging, which were absolutely first rate through the WP8s. Perhaps it was some artifact of the dynamic envelope of the WP7s that I was reacting to, where the music seemed to project further into the room. Or, as you've suggested, it may just have been a lack of time on the drivers of the WP8s.

Anyhow, I fully understand your enthusiasm for the WP8s. They are marvelous speakers.

Enjoy,

Siliab

Siliab
I agree maybe your view be right and my guess be wrong but in my experience the satisfaction factor is vastly dependent to system ability in micro scale.

I think transparency and presence of the sound are parameters that will improve across time. both are system ability in micro scale. even internal wiring of loudspeakers affect on these parameters and in my experience cables need over 300 hours for full break-in.

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