Wilsons new flagship

I’m sure it sounds great but I think it’s ugly.  For me a speaker has to look as good as it sounds.  I’m sure some with the money to buy will like the looks but I’ll pass. 

Wilson builds what Wilson builds and they have decades of experience knowing what their dealers and customers want.  I imagine this loudspeaker will be a success for them.

People are quick to complain about forum posters who interject politics into what they consider purely audio directed threads.  This thread is inherently political.  Opinions about cost, both extravagant and budget, are at their core discussions about political economics.

onhwy61 exactly.  

You are on the right track with buying different types of speakers instead at a much lower price per piece....The Avantgarde sounds drastically different from a Willie. A maggie sounds drastically different from a Willie, etc.

Inevitably, one will click in place better for a certain genre of music and so on. There’s no  ’cream of the crop’/’top of the line’ speaker from 1 design ethos that did great for every type of music.

(If you had 780k for buying speakers in general.... hopefully,,you have more than 1 room or a big room to fit a few different speakers... not a shoe closet sized room).

@audionutjeff wrote

For $780,000, I would not want that speaker or any one pair of speakers.  

I’d prefer 10-15 pairs of the world’s great speakers.  Big ass Avantegarde horns; the quadruple panel Maggie’s; some funky ‘stats and ribbons; exotic single drivers; granite Acora’s; a nice pair Wolf Von Langa’s; a bunch of the worlds great drivers in a box speakers and a terrific $80,000 pair of Wilson’s!  

That’s what I would do with $780,000 that has to be spent on speakers.  🙂

By the time you're paying $110,000 for a paint job on your speakers, the expense is irrelevant to you. Remember, Elon Musk could (literally and in fact) spend $1 million a week for...nineteen thousand years...before he ran out of money