Someone who wants a 10k bookshelf speaker.looked at the picture. "looks like snake oil"
looks at the price "pieced like snake oil"
looks at the review "sounds like snake oil"
who buys this crap in the first place?
Someone who wants a 10k bookshelf speaker.looked at the picture. "looks like snake oil"
looks at the price "pieced like snake oil"
looks at the review "sounds like snake oil"
who buys this crap in the first place?
Take a look at the poll results. We have potential buyers in the room.who buys this crap in the first place?
The subjective impression was better than the Revel though...Is Wilson playing a joke on us?
I must have missed the memo where this level of performance was acceptable for this kind of money.
A US$110/pair speaker, Neumi BS5, crushes this speaker!
Save your money...Buy the Genelec 8361A's instead.
So the measurements matter more than your ears and your subjective impression and taste?With about 90% votes for poor or "not terrible", and these measurements - I just don't get the recommendation from @amirm ....?
And then there are the costs. You almost get an ACTIVE Dutch & Dutch 8C for this kind of money.
And with this statement:
"If I were to just goy by the measurements, the Tunetot would not get good marks. But I have promised you all that I won't lie about what I hear no matter how much of a conflict this provides. To that end, I am going to recommend the Wilson TuneTot with equalization (cost not considered)."
Are we letting the subjective impressions prevail over the poor measurements? I mean, this speaker is nowhere near full range.
Based on the measurements I think it's easy to predict what your ears are going to prefer when you setup these speakers next to Dutch & Dutch 8C's.So the measurements matter more than your ears and your subjective impression and taste?
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure he mentioned somewhere that he uses the Mark Levinsons for all speaker listening tests and Purifi amp for measurements.Think he normally uses pro class D amplifier which provides more than enough power. Just uses these amplifiers to deal with comments about using cheap gear to test.
Don’t forget the F328Be.Isn't this the most expensive speaker we got so far?
I was struggling to understand the meaning of this "Tot"... perhaps they meant that it doesn't need EQ? Or that they are "definetly" tuned? ... or perhaps they don't consider the German interpretation after all.Funnily "Tot" means "dead" in German, so TuneTot something like tuned to death, to which rather the opposite is true.
TuneTot stems from Latin an means Tuned Odd.I was struggling to understand the meaning of this "Tot"... perhaps they meant that it doesn't need EQ? Or that they are "definetly" tuned? ... or perhaps they don't consider the German interpretation after all.
"Tonus" + "Tot" = (more or less) "so many sounds" They mean the resonances and diffractions!! You were right, it's not German but Latin.TuneTot stems from Latin an means Tuned Odd.
Thank you Amir for the review.I only see minor variations of the woofer response so hard to say if the above is really the problem. I did like the fact that the port/cabinet resonances are kept low. Woofer response does step up some though and is reflected in the frequency response (between 700 Hz and 1 kHz). Is this due to too little baffle compensation?
Any enclosure deviation from a standard rectangular prism costs money. Curves, rounds, slopes, all special cuts that are more labor and material intensive than the standard monkey coffin. Even PSB went back to a conventional box for the new Synchrony line, likely to meet a price point.The fit, finish and construction on Wilson Audio speakers is flawless. I don't know where you get the idea it isn't.
I think he was missing the gold plated 10,000 strand power cable, and the additional earth rods. Did he have the right cable lifters? Where is the door stop?I think this is the first ASR speaker review where the review system equipment was listed with price tags. I guess that's a prophylactic against the types of comments audio snobs might lob at such a review, but it's still sad.