Hi Handymann,
I don’t have Wilsons but I have always admired them since the Watt Puppy.
Please try some thin 2 or 3 mm foam or felt around the tweeter and on the baffle edges around the tweeter and mid range driver.
When the sound collapses to the speaker it usually suggests baffle edge diffraction. (The sound from mid range and tweeter is bouncing off the sharper edges of the speaker and this creates additional sounds that your hearing will pick up and allow you to pinpoint the speaker as the source of the sound)
The upper mid range driver sits proud of the tweeter by 2 inch on the Maxx 2 and this could be a big problem - protruding edges are far more severe in their diffraction effect. Same issue for the lower mid range as it sits back from the sharo edge of the lower cabinet. Think of it like a wave hitting a pier as it comes ashore - the pier severely disrupts the clean uniform wave and creates new secondary waves.
Our ears use these early diffracted arrrivals to pinpoint the source of the sound and it sounds like things are collapsing to the speaker more than you experienced with the ML.
I don’t have Wilsons but I have always admired them since the Watt Puppy.
Please try some thin 2 or 3 mm foam or felt around the tweeter and on the baffle edges around the tweeter and mid range driver.
When the sound collapses to the speaker it usually suggests baffle edge diffraction. (The sound from mid range and tweeter is bouncing off the sharper edges of the speaker and this creates additional sounds that your hearing will pick up and allow you to pinpoint the speaker as the source of the sound)
The upper mid range driver sits proud of the tweeter by 2 inch on the Maxx 2 and this could be a big problem - protruding edges are far more severe in their diffraction effect. Same issue for the lower mid range as it sits back from the sharo edge of the lower cabinet. Think of it like a wave hitting a pier as it comes ashore - the pier severely disrupts the clean uniform wave and creates new secondary waves.
Our ears use these early diffracted arrrivals to pinpoint the source of the sound and it sounds like things are collapsing to the speaker more than you experienced with the ML.