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OMG Moment

I had spent two days detailing my wife’s new car and just came back from the dog taking me out for a long walk. Wife was out, so I finally had some time to listen to an album that Juan @blisshifi had recommended. I never rest during daylight hours, but as I played Isolde Lasoen’s album “Oh Dear” I was half out. I’ve got a six foot couch as a listening area and slumped down and tilted my head back, closed my eyes and “Douce Melancolie” completely transformed. The soundstage width, depth and height went crazy. It was the most amazing, life like sound that I had ever heard on my system, or any system that I can remember. The whole 180 degrees of the room was filled with music without loss of localization. The speakers usually/mostly disappear with many albums, but they were completely gone. I don’t understand any of this, but I’m just going with it.  I suspect that I just discovered that the Wilson Sabrina X has a very critical vertical dispersion pattern.  I would never have expected this and can imagine someone saving lots of money by changing their vertical seating position.

vonhelmholtz
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I guess that when members post that “everything matters” it means that literally everything matters

ghdprentice
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It really does. Hearing, particularly with trained listening skills and it is amazing how sensitive they can be. Over the last fifty years, I was shocked to find how subtle vibration control, wires, power cords… etc, can make a difference. 

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audphile1
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@blisshifi ​​​​@vonhelmholtz thanks for the album recommendation! Good stuff, especially that “Douce Melancolie” track. 
 

@vonhelmholtz I have noticed the same effect with my Sabrinas (original). When I tilt my head back more, the soundstage literally wraps around. I was actually considering ordering one of those Eames chair replicas from Amazon as it looks like it’s lower than the chair I’m currently using and appears to have a more reclined seating position. May be worth looking into. 

kennyc
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Perhaps the OPs torso and/or neck is longer than average and not included within Wilson's engineered dispersion pattern :)

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I would say the smaller Wilson speakers do image quite low. I am fairly short and have a low height listening chair, so while the Wilson Yvette imaged well, vocalists still seemed they were sitting. The speakers I’ve had prior (Legacy Aeris) and after (Scansonic MB-6B, Borresen Z3, Borresen 02) all portray a might taller and more natural soundstage height.The Z3 and 02 are both smaller than the Yvette as well, but Wilson tends to point their tweeters down to blend with the mids as a point source, so that may be why. 

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