Wilsons new flagship

This "ultra" stuff is always a target for pot shots, but isn't terribly relevant unless you are in the luxe marketing dogma loop--stuff that people read in legacy press that reinforces this as state of the art. Do you believe in trickle down technology? That's what's being sold at best.

I remember hearing the OG Wamms, with a fleet of Jadis tube amps, back in the day. Not really inspiring in the actuality. I find the tendency toward forensic sound, inert materials, to be the goal these days, not necessarily what makes music reproduction sing. 

Let's be productive, not just carping about so-called "aspirational" hi-fi for the masses- the same dreck as thinking a modern Bugatti is in any way connected with the original Molsheim company-- PE marketing of the bespoke heritage. 

For modern gear, I'm pretty much tapped out. My interest is in the history of the thing and what it can do in actuality. (Oh, and the Airtight 300R that is here now--Takatsuki tubes-wouldn't light this thing up). 

$780k USD for a pair of speakers is every bit as irrational as a $3 Million USD (and up) Bugatti, but they will sell for exactly the same reasons. If Wilson Audio wants to fulfill a luxury speaker engineer’s wish list without financial constraints and has enough market support to justify the creation, so be it. They almost certainly make enough profit on these such that only a handful needs to be sold, with the indirect benefit of this exercise being it hedges their market perception to an exclusive audience eager to hand over large amounts of cash for speakers. 

I think spending that much money on a pair of speakers is stupid. Speakers like most audio equipment depreciates quickly, the example of the Bugatti is flawed. The Bugatti will if anything depreciate slowly, hold and eventually increase in value...and it comes with speakers. 

Why should I care about how others spend their money? People spend all kinds of money on all kinds of things.

What folks may not realize is that the number of wealthy people has reached a critical mass wherein they can keep all these uber expensive product manufacturers in profit. What appears exorbitant to us is merely small change for them. Ergo, this $780k speaker is extraordinary but affordable. Just not to us.