Wilson Alexandria X2s in small room

In a lot of places in the U.S., it's hard to build a utility closet for $65k these days -- that sounds extremely optimistic for a dedicated room. I have a close friend who lives in a low-cost part of the country and his dedicated room is coming in around $200k. The idea is right on the mark, however. You'll get dramatically better sound -- absolutely no comparison -- by building a well designed dedicated room and going with a much more modest speaker, as opposed to putting a state-of-the-art, $135k speaker in a regular room.

As for X-2's specifically, whether it will "work" in smaller rooms is beside the point. It is absurd to use a speaker of its abilities in anything other than a purpose-built, dedicated room, with anything other than state-of-the-art componentry, and without giving it the very best set-up job. It's like owning a Ferrari, but putting a $250 set of tires on it. $135k speaker in a regular room? ... You know the answer.

Are you buying these new from an authorized Wilson dealer? If so, then dosen't Dave Wilson come to your house and personally set them up for you? Why don't you fly out to the Wilson factory and spend a few days listening to their products in their optimized listening rooms? Bring details pictures and diagrams of your listening room and ask them if they can match their room's sound quality in your room.

The Wilson may or may not be an optimal match for your room, but if your Salons with dual Revel subs are not overloading your room, then the Wilsons probably won't either.

my room is almost the same dimensions...i cant imagine them in my room.maybe if i shove my couch all the way against the back wall.Wow.i say no..imho.

As per the last post, active sub woofers are much more tunable to work in a room than a lone pair of X2 where you can not easily control room boundary and tune out bass nulls.

If you want to get amazing sound but for mucho less denaro find a pair of Dali Megalines. My friend Clemment Perry of Stereotimes uses them with dual subs in a small room and they sound incredible. Clemment also uses a Tact for room correction.

If you have your heart set on the X2 consider a Tact and you might be able to tune the system to work with this size room.

I do believe in the comments made by the gentleman that sold his Maxxs, but even in a small room anything is possible if you work hard enough on it.

Raquel,
As for the design of my room, I built it myself, (it was still expensive)and other then having to cope with the size of the basement, it was built with plans outlined by the Acoustic Science Corporation for their Iso-Room system. As for the equipment drivng the speakers, the equipment is 95% Levinson Reference.