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Poor Fritz

There’s no better value and no one as willing to make bespoke speakers out there than Fritz and these forums treat his speakers as if they cost $200K.
They don’t. They are remarkably affordable and yet potential customers put him through the absolute ringer, asking for custom features, going through 2 or 3 models of home auditions and maybe not even buying any of them.

Look, you buy what you want to buy, but I think not enough credit is given to the man or his speakers in terms of the overall value proposition and I think this is a disservice overall.  If you write a 5 page review, please keep this very much in mind that you are not reviewing Wilson or Focal's flagships.  Maybe he doesn't deserve quite the same scrutiny.

erik_squires
kenjit
1,771 posts
 
If those speakers had a Wilson badge they would be 5x as expensive and to my ears comparable sound quality (and better than older Wilsons) given the size restrictions.

So are you saying the wilsons are a complete scam? That appears to be exactly what you are saying Erik Tufnel.

erik_squires OP
16,129 posts
 
I should maybe note that one thing that worked for Fritz during that show which might have made it a standout.

He brought his own room acoustics instead of relying on ASC and his own electronics. 
For some reason the gear provided by ASC seemed to suck out the mid bass, and every single room besides fritz had this "one note bass" phenomenon, where no matter what was playing, or what room I was in the bass sounded exactly the same.  Really never heard anything like that.  I stepped into Fritz's room and that all went away.

I've heard Fritz at another show since then and it was still very good, but other rooms didn't sound quite so bad now. :)

Best,
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isochronism
2,893 posts
 
Gee, I felt clever coming up with my "on the fritz" line .. and now I see that someone had already beat me to it. I have to subject myself to reading these entire nonsense threads only to submit one half-witted joke attempt?? Now I know how the tortured artist feels.
glupson
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kenjit,

"Total cost of drivers is $1300. Cost of speakers is $3500. So how much is he actually making? Can anybody answer that without insulting me?"

It is a business secret, but is around $1273.66
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hilde45
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@isochronism LOL! The only way to avoid having to read the whole thread is to make sure that your line is *really* original.
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