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

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

@audphile1   Glad you have found bliss with your Sabrina loudspeakers. Please be open minded enough to understand that not all of us find Wilson Audio speakers as the "Holy Grail". Yes, some negative posts can be over the top berating Wilson Audio that are unjustified. The bottom line is IMO there are loudspeakers that portray music in a more natural/realistic/organic presentation even at a lower price point.

@dayglow please be open minded but not delusional. I’ve heard and owned enough speakers in my life. I can make the most natural and organic sounding speaker like the Audio Note for example, sound either dull and boring or extremely clinical and analytical and send you running out of the room  

So please don’t patronize me.