Wilson Sophia III vs Sasha

There is no definite answer whether the Sasha is $15k better than the Sophia 3. I echo Branislav's advice.

A friend owns the Sasha. He told me prior to owning the Sasha he was at the dealer listening to the Sophia 3. He was about the pull the trigger when the dealer showed him the Sasha. Once he listened to the Sasha he knew he would be getting this one. He said although the Sasha was an overall better speaker, the Sophia-3 comes pretty close to the Sasha's performance. Whether it's $15k better, no comment.

So smitten with the Sasha, he got himself a second pair of Wilson for the living room just recently, the Maxx 3.

Heard both and loved them, but you'll have to jump a step or 2 higher to make it worth the money.

Agree with Jfrech. Perhaps you should invest a few $K in treating your room, primarily bass treatments in the corners, rather than $15K in speakers. You already have world class speakers. This may sound counterintuitive, but that will result in a much more expansive soundstage, more transparency with better articulation as well as much smoother and lower reaching bass.

Lenny_zwik,

Did you work directly with Rives to design your room treatment. My priorities are for the speakers to disappear, if it's a good recording... image depth, width, height, with spacing between instruments. I was wondering if the Sasha's would provide a significant upgrade on my priorities given all other things are equal. Will room treatments affect my priorities as much?

I have found that the lister/room/speaker relationship is far more important than which speaker one has, especially if you are comparing two very good and similar speakers from the same manufacturer. Get the room, speaker location and listening seat right and improvement should be huge. You can do that for less than the $15K and the results will be better, IMO.