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.
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
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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
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The frequency response is interesting. I can attest to the fact that these kinds of nulls are often not as audible as they appear on the graph because the sound energy is still entering the room. I have digital active crossovers and I can flip the polarity on my midrange to get those nulls as measured on-axis with a gated window to remove room reflections. I'll try it again tonight but my guess is that when I flip the polarity of the mid while listening to music I will not hear a night and day difference. The room reflections fill in to a large degree. Still, hard to say why this would be chosen on purpose. A step response on the speaker and some off axis measurements might tell us more. |
I tried flipping my midrange polarity last night. The effect is easily audible. Not terrible sounding but noticeably recessed in the range of the crossover, which in my case is around 2000 Hz. I didn't listen long enough to see if I could detect what might be audible at the 200 Hz lower crossover. I had already heard enough to determine you shouldn't do this unless you are going for a particular flavor of sound other than neutral. |
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