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

GR Research gave a breakdown of these & I was surprised..

Owner looking to make them sound better.

https://youtu.be/Tma9jFZ3-3k

 

fertguy
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toddalin
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Here's a thought...,  enlightened

If you design your speakers so that anything can run them, there's going to be a lot of crappy stuff out there running them making them sound crappy and giving them a bad rep, even if undeserved.

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ozzy62
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Anybody else remember Dave Wilson demoing the Sophia at the 2004 CES show with a cheap Parasound amp and an iPod? Guess the equipment didn't matter much that day.

 

audition__audio
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Great how did the demo sound?

Absurd thought that because you can drive a $ 20K plus speaker with cheap electronics you would. As if this would be a reason to not make a speaker easy to drive.

Many of you are showing a fundamental misunderstanding of how most amps react to low impedance speakers. Low impedance is never a good thing. Yes can make a good sounding weird curve/high impedance speaker which sounds good, but why would you. You seem to think that enormous thought goes into every aspect of speaker design. 

Remember that when David Wilson started building speakers, no tube options were available or at least in favor. 

 

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ozzy62
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Don't assume anything about what I understand or don't understand. I have owned Sophias and I know they need good equipment in front of them. I wasn't at the show so I don't know how the demo sounded.

 

I was only trying to take folks down memory lane.

audition__audio
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I meant weird curve/low impedance speaker. Sorry!

So you mention a demo which you didnt hear. I guess because Dave did this demo we should assume the sound was excellent. C'mon show us a bit of respect!

Yes sarcasm from Mulv., but not very clever or applicable. 

 

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