Stereophile review of the new Wilson Watt/Puppy

@ckr1969

At the end of the day, all cars should be able to get over a regular speed bump or up a gravel driveway, especially at 1.6 million dollars.

No one said anything about off-roading well, just driving along a typical unpaved dirt road with ruts and stuff.

The Sasha's would be better for rock music (more bass where you need/feel it) and the speakers measure about the same otherwise, which one would expect as they use pretty much the same other components.

A WWP with a sub would probably be the best/most economical way to get the best of all worlds.

I understand what he's getting at and see where he's coming from.

If you look at the FR you see that they have fairly smooth extension into the bass frequencies with the peak ~70Hz declining below that and from there up to ~500 Hz.  The extension works well with the suggested genre of music.  But nowhere do the bass frequencies exceed/meet the rest of the response.

For rock you want a solid bass between ~70-300Hz and omitting floor bounce, this portion of the band is going to be louder, typically by several dB, than the remainder of the response.

@ckr1969 

Couldn't one also use the same rationale to say that at over 1.6 million dollars, a Bugatti Veyron should be able to go off-roading? 

@chrisoshea 

There is no contradiction.  I told you why he feels that way.  Whether you choose to accept it is another thing.