Any bad experience with wilson audio sasha w/p?

Bo1972 sounds like a dealer I know who was a Wilson loyalist until he spent a day listening to a customer's system that used a brand that is known for making music. His comment to me: "How could I have missed so much music for that many years?"

You are right. Pride of ownership! Who cares if you can't listen to it, you can show it off! Such is the state of high end audio in these times.....a shame.

"I think that the biggest problem for Wilson is that people bash Sasha based on their previous experiences with earlier generations of Wilson speakers. Sasha sounds VERY different to all earlier W/P models"

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It is truly amazing how many time this has been said about the previous iteration of Wilsons inclusing W/P and Maxx.

It goes (and has gone) something like this:

"Oh, but you should hear the 3, the last was so harsh".

Then when the 4 comes out, the same is said about the 3.

When the 5 comes out, the same is said about the 4.

It is an amazing phenomenon. I can't think of a company whose next model is time and time again so much better than the last model!

"Kiddman, I fully agree with what you are saying. Very silly and unimaginative marketing."

Thanks, but this is not what Wilson says (they never say the old one was bad). It is what enthusiasts and press say: the old ones are fantastic, no faults mentioned, until the new ones come out, and then the true failts with the last ones are finally admitted. And all along, the faults have been generally the same. Unfortunately, the faults have always been in the harshness/brightness/hard to listen to/amusical areas.

Ricred1, agreed, guys like this are so wrapped up in being a guru and touting their superior hearing and evaluation skills that this becomes their main mission, and what they say loses impact and credibility.

Usually you hear about soundstage, exact statements about bass, location of sounds, on and on. Usually you don't hear much about the beauty of music, sound that makes you stimulated yet relaxed at the same time, music that is achingly beautiful. That's what real detail is about, bringing musical sounds to the forefront while REDUCING harshness.

And excuses about being so accurate that they hurt are as old as the hills, and are false. Low distortion brings more musical detail AND more ease of listening.