Wilsons new flagship

Again, we seem to fixate on how other people spend their money. That's an aspect of the forum that I can't understand. $780k speakers are not for me. Its also not for me to judge someone as an idiot-someone who I know nothing about- for how they might choose to spend their money. I also understand that the price for the paint job is really steep. But how does it take an advantage of anyone? Wilson sets a price on a luxury item. Not an essential. No one is forced to buy. If you are like me and never going to be a customer for these speakers, why do you care what the price might be? If someone has the resources to buy these speakers and they exercise their free will to do so, why would any of us have standing to pass judgment? All this is relative. There are lots of people who listen to music everyday on their bluetooth speaker who undoubtedly believe that only an idiot would pay $5,000 for speakers. 

The only way these speakers and similar ultra expensive gear will ever affect most of us is the possibility that some of the technology developed for these products might trickle down to gear that maybe we will enjoy-that's a good thing.

You are paying not only for exclusively , you are also paying for intense R&D.    People often don’t think of the research and prototyping of a speaker like that.  It is expensive and time consuming 

Sonus Faber, Magico and others also have $750k speakers ...   not sure it’s worth it and if I could afford it I would not spend that kind of money.  That is L88 Covette or Yenko ZL1 territory.   Now that is money well spent.  

Can you very quickly buy that 1 million dollar dartzeel cartridge...

Some 'intense R&D' went into it.....Buy it,  make haste, chop chop

You are paying not only exclusively , you are also paying for intense R&D. 

Like Kerrybh said , I can appreciate these products for their all out assault on state of the art which is always a moving target.  That technology definitely trickles down in this hobby.   Especially with speakers.   That's why products like the Wilson are important.  They push the envelope on what is state of the art.  

What are they doing that is so ground breaking? Same ole drivers they have been using. Paper scanspeak woofers, soft dome tweeter all wrapped up in a 800lb cabinet. That what I see at least. Maybe there’s something groundbreaking here but I haven’t looked into it. Bunch of fancy names for all their cabinet material. Xyz etc. 

that said im sure they sound great. They sure better!