Wilson Watt Puppies 50th year Anniversary model

Hi @ritter06 sorry I missed your post: Analysis Plus Black Mesh Oval 9.

Cheers. How did you decide on those? Try any others?

I have had the 50th anniversary edition Watt/Puppy for about 3 weeks.  I am using them with Ayre MX-R amplifiers.  These replaced Wilson Sophia 2s that I used for over 15 years. 

At the time I got the Sophia 2s I listened to the then, just released, Sashas and the Sophia 3 and thought that they were not an improvement over the Sophia 2s.  I have been looking to upgrade for a few years but never found anything that I enjoyed enough to make a change.  The Watt/Puppys are the first Wilson's I thought sounded enough better to justify a change.

When I auditioned the 50th anniversary edition of the Watt/Puppy I really liked them from the first song.  I then auditioned them with my electronics and I was hooked.  Now that I have listened to them for 3 weeks I like them even more than the auditions.

I have a very long run of ethernet cable going to the 791, and plan to either create a short fiber moat or simply add an Etherregen.

@debrajray  You could use something like a Wi-Fi extender or many people here use the Eero Mesh system so you can run a short Ethernet cable from that to your system, and it’s certainly cheap to try. 

Hi @ritter06 I did have a set of Analysis Plus cables (not the Oval 9s) on another system and I’ve always liked them. I’ve also used Chord Shawline X cables in the past. All good stuff. The Oval 9s sounded better --- I had switched to them before the WPs so I could fortunately register the "marginal contribution" of the cables alone. Whether the whole package is optimal God only knows but it sounds just great to me.

@soix I have to say that I am old-school enough that I am still anxious about drops on WiFi. I actually have an entire mesh of Eero Pros, though there are thick walls in my apartment and (for boring historical reasons) I am going literally from one edge to the other: internet entry and Roon core (MacMini) at one end, the Moons/WWP on the other. What I did do was terminate the ethernet at a TrendNet switch, changed to fiber optic and ran that into an Etherregen with a short patch of ethernet out its B-port and into the Moon 791. It did make a discernible difference probably because my ethernet run is so long. I was very happy with the sound before, and even happier now.

(Also very happy to share details about the exact fiber optic setup.)

That said, I should probably bite the bullet and see if an Eero extender with ethernet out can do just as well. Ah, rabbit holes.

One thing I will say about the WWPs. They are significantly directional speakers. I do have a sweet spot in my living room where the music is transformative. But I am not always in that sweet spot and I would say that there is a very well-defined drop-off as you move away from it. It’s still fantastic music, but --- how shall I put it? --- the WPs kind of tug you back to that one location. It can be slightly irritating sometimes, but look, these are seriously audiophile speakers and I guess I am not *that* serious an audiophile to stay rooted in one place ...