Stereophile review of the new Wilson Watt/Puppy

I understand what he's getting at and see where he's coming from.

If you look at the FR you see that they have fairly smooth extension into the bass frequencies with the peak ~70Hz declining below that and from there up to ~500 Hz.  The extension works well with the suggested genre of music.  But nowhere do the bass frequencies exceed/meet the rest of the response.

For rock you want a solid bass between ~70-300Hz and omitting floor bounce, this portion of the band is going to be louder, typically by several dB, than the remainder of the response.

I listen to primarily rock and Wilsons never impressed me. No, I do not crank to 11 some JBL and rock is actually challenging for many speakers. Much easier to voice for high quality vocal with couple of instruments than to less than stellar recording of Zeppelin.

And they don’t seem to measure particularly well either. No matter what but $40K speaker MUST measure well.

@OP. Mr Colloms has long been a fan of Naim equipment. As you can see in the review, he started listening to the W/P with his Naim 250 but couldn't drive them with it. If you are familiar with Naim type sound it will explain why Mr Collom's was slightly critical of the W/P on rock music. Aewarren above has summed up why.

@aewarren 

Too refined for rock music? What does that actually mean? To me "too refined" means dynamically limited, amd Martin says that's not the case, hence the contradiction.

“Too refined for rock music” lol!!!!!