A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx

My biases tend to run parallel to RH's. That's probably why I don't subscribe. What's the point of hearing your own echo. That said, I 've enjoyed the dynamic capabilities of Watt/Puppies driven by Krells playing big band jazz immensely. Manufacturers have criticized the power reviewers have in this industry for some time now. Now we have reviewers reviewing each other. Hmmn, interesting. I think I like it.

Hi Songwriter72,

As an amateur I did build other true first-order crossover two-way speakers that sounded pretty good (though power handling was compromised), but those did not measure "flat" on-axis.

I use a combination of mechanical and electrical roll-off to get a first order transition between some of the drivers in my one commercial offering, though the region of overlap isn't broad enough for me to call it a "true first order" crossover. And I pay more attention to the power response than to the on-axis response.

Duke

Well. I got no beef in this. I was at CES last Year and will likely be this year and so I get to hear room after room of high end stuff with a wide variation in price.

I do think that reviewers speaker reviews can be and in fact are biased by advertising dollars. This doesn't mean folks lie; it does mean that negatives are couched and underemphasized and positives overly glorified. I saw this even with my own speaker line that I personally own ( and paid for). In addition, while we all like differently colored speakers ( or types of sounds so to speak) I'd like to see some objective comparisons to a standard, such as response curves in anechoic chambers. I think its a good piece of data among others.

The writer of the article critical of the Wilson's really did come across as quite hostile to me as a true non-partisan in this one; but he did raise good points as well.

Rysa4 I do totally agree with you,you will find out
the truth, the moment you own the gear that they
reviewed,well covered post.Right on the money.

i remember reading something like that in TAS where they interview the speaker designers from revel, mbl, magnepan and some other speakere i can't remember. each person talk about their philosophy , i thought thougth it was a great article.