A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx

I didn't have time to read all the posts but I offer this to you. I have been selling and installing high end for 25 years and I was a Wilson dealer once. I have noticed that when people are exposed to true magic they all agree on what sounds incredible. What happens most often is either people have different things they are willing to compromise on when they can't have the best OR more often they have never heard magic, only expensive stuff they should like and don't trust what they are hearing. When you live with magic, the system makes your ears a lot better than before and you know you have magic when you become hyper critical and you still love the system that you thought was incredible.
With all that said, I have never heard any Wilson including the WAMM's sound incredible. Big, powerful, tall, yes but never incredible. Like so many in our industry, Dave Wilson has enough knowledge and experience to design a great product but does not have that 6th sense to design beyond understanding like a hand full of true artists that exist.
Just my humble opinion.

Anechoic chambers while useful for finding problems are not useful in telling sound quality because 40% of the sound you hear is the sound reflected to you from the off axes signals. Because of this, the speaker that reflects with the most natural sound wins by a long shot. Case in point is Dunlevy. These speakers measure great in an anechoic chamber but the reason they don't sound good in a real room is their off axes reflected sound was + or - 12 db.

In reference to Allison and his woofer loading. Unity Audio made the PARM system where the subwoofers had Marble slabs at a specific distance for tuning, then you had to locate it a certain distance from a solid object in the room creating the second tuned frequency. This of course made the room the actual tuned speaker enclosure. LOL

I need to step in again. I had a system that in the room it was placed sounded as good as an instrument in playing in the same room. Or it did over half the time as long as it was a good recording. The trade offs are worth it though because I have heard live instruments sound horrible do to the room they are in. These are the times that make up for the times my system didn't sound as good. The real problem is that musicians today think they can buy a few thousands of dollars worth of digital recording equipment and get close enough to a good recording studio. Our systems were already way ahead of the recording industry and just like the way digital made new audiophiles worse, it is now making the music industry worse. It already made the Cell phones worse. I have so many customers today who have never heard analogue before and it does make their ears worse. I tell them if they want to know what digital sounds like, listen to a fax machine.