Stereophile - Sabrina 5


Hate to rag on Sterophile again, but one of two things are true.  One, the Sabrina speakers they reviewed were wired incorrectly or Wilson is now shipping with inverted midranges. 

All that work to reduce distortion to vanishing levels only to totally ahem, add custom flavor to the frequency response.  

Honestly if I was reviewing this speaker I'd have stopped to reach out to them before publishing, just to be sure this speaker shipped as intended. 

https://www.stereophile.com/content/wilson-audio-specialties-sabrina-v-loudspeaker-measurements

erik_squires

Hey deep_333,

I'll take that wager.  The Wilson personal from the top are anything but lazy.  They work hard designing and building and are obsessive about quality.  I know some of them personally and there's no room for a lack of performance.  They've been around longer and sell more than the other brands combined.  It's a personal preference but I find Magico sterile, YG good and haven't heard enough TAD to have an opinion.  That's the reason there are multiple brands offering choices.  I probably wouldn't like your wife as a life partner and you wouldn't care for mine.  Or my wine and art choices.  Makes the world go around.

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Very amusing to read some of this stuff especially while listening to gorgeous music pouring out of the Sabrinas. The lazy and arrogant people at Wilson Audio must have just hit a lucky streak with mine. Hey even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. Keep it coming boys…

@erik_squires, What was the point of your post?   Wilson wires their midrange drivers out off phase in their speaker line. I believe you may have thought you had a “got ya moment” but it didn’t work out.  Am I getting warmer?

In a 3 way speaker, having the polarity of the midrange reversed is a well known speaker design technique. JBL pioneered that in the 1970s. 

Yep!

Mike