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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
samzx12
1,255 posts
 

I don’t consider Wilson’s bright whatsoever. The older models yes the tweeter was hot but definitely not the new models. Does anyone have a comparison of the original Sabrina midrange/tweeter performance versus the Sabrina X? Just curious because I have the original.  From my understanding the original is warmer overall. 

mrdecibel
3,304 posts
 

BTW, the original post by Erik was specifically, only the measurement section of the review, just to be clear. Enjoy!

samzx12
1,255 posts
 

@mrdecibel ?

mrdecibel
3,304 posts
 

I think it was mdalton who said the post by erik "contained a link" to the measurements. It "was the measurements only" section that Erik posted, not the entire review. Thought it would clear this up a bit.

wester17
77 posts
 

Such a lot of dissonance, distortion, and high noise to signal ratio in this thread. Please excuse me while I slip away into sonic bliss listening to my Sabrinas, which took me twenty years to finally acquire. The journey has been extremely well rewarded. 

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