Stereophile review of the new Wilson Watt/Puppy


I received my copy of the latest Stereophile yesterday and was curious to see what Martin Collums had to say about them, even though I would take it with a grain of salt, knowing that he had owned them in the past. He's still one of the reviewers that I consider to be most technically informed and balanced in his reviews.

I'm starting this thread because I want to know if others found his conclusions as confusing as I did. He says that the speakers have deep powerful bass, great detail, wonderful dynamic range, and are able to play very loud without breakup. 

However, after all of that, he concludes that they are better for jazz and orchestral and perhaps a bit reticent for pop and rock. This made no sense to me, especially for a $40.000 speaker. I am curious about the opinions of anyone else who has read the review. 

128x128roxy54

Too refined for rock music.

If it is too refined for rock music, it needs a flamethrower before it gets tossed in the trash can.

@kennyc

If you read my original post you would see that my only query was if anyone else found his opinions about the speakers overall performance was contradicted by his later opinion that it wasn’t suited to rock and pop.

No one really addressed that of course. I became a thread about what members thought about the speakers and it's stablemates.

OP, the number of times we have read gushing reviews full of epiphanies for the reviewer...only to then discover months or years later that the piece that was reviewed has this and that flaw compared to the latest piece under review...is numerous times! 

Personally, when I read this kind of thing, I lose all respect for the reviewer.