A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx

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As a pretty poor trombone player myself in the past I can confirm this to be true. Trombones when they are *leant* on can really be very dynamic - equally true of trumpets and parts of the percussion section.

I guess that's why the orchestra only has very few of us and a boat load of strings!

Also you may find your recording of the trombone was taken at say 40ft if it was in an large group and your room might not be that big!

Good to see the the discussion has moved toward the live instruments

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I need to step in again. I had a system that in the room it was placed sounded as good as an instrument in playing in the same room. Or it did over half the time as long as it was a good recording. The trade offs are worth it though because I have heard live instruments sound horrible do to the room they are in. These are the times that make up for the times my system didn't sound as good. The real problem is that musicians today think they can buy a few thousands of dollars worth of digital recording equipment and get close enough to a good recording studio. Our systems were already way ahead of the recording industry and just like the way digital made new audiophiles worse, it is now making the music industry worse. It already made the Cell phones worse. I have so many customers today who have never heard analogue before and it does make their ears worse. I tell them if they want to know what digital sounds like, listen to a fax machine.

the wilson max is the 901 of today

"the wilson max is the 901 of today"

with one hell of an escalation factor!

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a few years ago my brother-in-law and his friend visited my home. my brother-in-law is a fairly good amatuer trumpet player and his friend is a professional jazz trumpeter. they brought their trumpets.

after dinner we retired to my dedicated 2-channel system room and proceeded to have them accompany Miles Davis on the 45rpm vinyl of Kind Of Blue.

it was great fun and an unforgetable evening.

the vinyl held it's own. i'm not saying that the live instruments did not have advantages but they were not staggering. the guys were able to play 'with' the recorded music; not over the top of it.

my system and especially my vinyl is much better now. i wonder how it would sound. BTW, this is actually somewhat on-topic....as my system then (5 years ago) included Wilson Watt/Puppy 6.0's with Levinson #33 amps.

the great thing about the trumpet is that the scale of the instrument works in a typical listening room.