The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues.

I'm a fan of Danny. Yes, he criticizes things he thinks are wrong. He has decades designing speakers and crossovers. He has mostly been behind the scenes working for other brands.  He champions DIY as a means to achieve high performance with minimized cost. 

The folks that say he is a "salesman" need to understand the time and energy he spends with these upgrades. Yes, he sells upgrade "kits" to folks that want to improve the performance of their speakers, but he doesn't select the speakers to upgrade. Dissatisfied owners do. He does the design work for free, and is only compensated for his time with the profit he makes on these kits. How much do you think his time was worth upgrading these Wilson's? He knows what makes a speaker sound good. He also knows how to identify design choices that make for compromised sound. He sells very modestly priced speaker kits that punch way above their price point. I built the NX-Tremes. They are sublime. Incredible at the price point, and I had fun building them. Win-win.

Don't bash Danny until you look at his entire body of work. He is a huge asset to the DIY community. 

Watt-Puppy 8s?   Really?  These speakers are 20-30 years old.  They haven't used that tweeter since then.  Does this guy actually listen to the speakers?  He spends the entire video talking about measurements. 

I owned the Watt-Puppy 7s and loved them.  Auditioned the big B&W N800s, and a number of other more expensive brands at the time. On the same system at a big NY/Phila area dealer.  Never liked the 8s as well.  Since, owned Sashas, Yvettes, and Sasha DAWs... all great.  Wilson technology, as others, has moved on.  Better drivers, cabinets and crossovers.  Darryl Wilson vs. Dave Wilson.  Times, cables, speakers, amplification and sources are way better today.  The current Watt-Puppy is a remarkable little speaker.  This old, dog eared thing should be retired.

His business is to sell crossovers....so he criticizes speaker manufacturers choices to sell "upgraded" crossovers.

Not sure how Danny is a Wilson competitor? Who cross shops Wilson with a GR Research kit speaker? 

Danny does these mod videos for education and entertainment....hoping you buy his GLS Encore kit...and then keep buying from him...he's not hiding the ball, he has said this.

This is an industry where designers/engineers are secretive and here we have one of the best ones openly sharing and giving an unfiltered opinion...basically unicorn content.  

The idea that a 3 dB variation in response  is "choppy"' is simply ridiculous. Go look at any speaker review with measurements and even the best have variations of at least that much and many have far greater. 

chasing a flatter response than this with a speaker is a fool's errand.