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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
 

@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. 

dayglow
2,433 posts
 

Very disappointed with the amount of anger displayed here over a loudspeaker. I'm fully aware that Wilson Audio is an aspirational brand that takes some decades to acquire but does that make them untouchable to criticism? Look at the Bowers and Wilkens 800 D series owners(another aspirational loudspeaker) many are able to shed the criticism without having an adolescent tantrum. 

deep_333
2,424 posts
 

At this point, it would be safe to assume the sales boys and their pied pipers (on the payroll) are out.

God bless facebook

@dayglow wrote

Very disappointed with the amount of anger displayed here over a loudspeaker. I'm fully aware that Wilson Audio is an aspirational brand that takes some decades to acquire but does that make them untouchable to criticism? Look at the Bowers and Wilkens 800 D series owners(another aspirational loudspeaker) many are able to shed the criticism without having an adolescent tantrum. 

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