Wilsons new flagship


Maybe I am getting old but Wilsons new flagship $780k  and they feel it is justified,

lit gets better if you want custom paint $110,000 they said it takes 2 days to paint both speakers, Jays audio lab commented and I think it was way too much and 

$110k for $300 in paint is nuts that is truly taking advantage of everyone with wealth, imo only an idiot would pay that. I guess nothing should surprise me any more !!

audioman58

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 

Elon Musk's primary residence is a pre-fab shack with a couch in it, no bed.

He knows how much it costs to paint a Tesla.

He will laugh Willie out of his pre-fab shack and shut the door. Willie may need to wipe his tears and find another customer, thereafter. 

 

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