The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues.

The GR dude does come across as kinda dishonest in those videos trashing speakers, honestly.

At the same time, it looks like he’s legit, and some of his speakers are well-regarded.

So maybe he’s not doing himself any favors with the YouTube shtick. Upgrade kits can’t be such a big part of his business anyway.

Which of the following is truer?

1. Negativity is bad for sales

2. Any attentoin is good attention

Danny should watch more Uncle Paul videos and learn ruthless hucksterism from a grand master

thecarpathian

Recently there was a thread about some abysmally stupid statement YouTuber Rick Beato made in an effort to ingratiate himself with his geriatric audience. A lively discussion ensued, and not once did I mention his terrible sideburns. You can do it man!!

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If a pac-man machine copulated with a traffic light

Has any person ever bought a pair of these horrors, or are they just decoys meant to make the $500K ones look sensible?

@ghdprentice I don't doubt it. I would welcome the opportunity to audition them..

What I don't get is why a person would tolerate these things in the beauty (hopefully) of their homes, candy apple paint job and all

Looks-wise, honestly, I would welcome Vivids in my home. Wilsons, never.

Different, weird, I can rationalize and even grow to love. Offensively ugly, I can't. Wilson designers actually went to great lengths to make those speakers painful to look at. The sculpted sides look like those fiberglass kit cars they made in the 70s.

Only Wilson Audio could make $1M speakers look cheap.

But Vivids? Any time. They are said to sound fantastic, too.

@inthesticks I think you are correct, I don’t recall the Wilson’s age being mentioned in his 1st video either.

Maybe he mentioned it in his follow-up video, but it was so boring I stopped watching it after a few minutes.

Low impedance is immaterial when speakers are paired with amplifiers that are right for them.

Lots of folks out there under-power their speakers.

Some speakers, especially vintage ones, will react to this indignity by either sounding like garbage or by frying the offending amp.

Other speakers will still sound pretty good, yet withhold their best. 

At the end of the day the vast majority of speakers, polite ones included, benefit sonically from high-power / high-current amplification.

My sarcasm detector is chirping. It probably needs new batteries.

Many of you are showing a fundamental misunderstanding of how most amps react to low impedance speakers. Low impedance is never a good thing.

Low impedance is neither a good nor a bad thing. It is what it is. When low impedance is present, appropriate amplification is required. This is not optional, the right amps must be chosen and I don’t disagree that many folks don’t, either because they underestimate or simply ignore their speakers’ needs, and then they’ll go and bad-mouth glorious speakers just because they sounded terrible in their inadequate system.

@audition__audio I think we are on the same page wrt the need for quality speakers to be paired with quality amplifiers, but I would argue that many amazing sounding large floorstanders out there do have unforgiving impedance curves, so to me at least, high current amps are a must-have.

Besides, very few speakers, including higher-efficiency ones, fail to benefit from an abundance of current, even when it’s a nice-to-have and not a must-have.

This is not to say that a person can’t put together a system that sounds fantastic in their room out of a single-digit-watt amp driving a single full-range coaxial driver.

It is all a matter of taste in the end.

@audition__audio 

I was not familiar with Trilogy so I looked up the brand. Really beautiful amps. However, nothing in the published specs suggest they would excel at driving difficult loads. 

Have you looked at Accuphase? Some of their amps are stable below 1 ohm, and they have a sound that can be described as warm. Their A300 monoblocks are rated 125W into 8 ohms, 250W into 4 ohms, 500W into 2 ohms, and 1000W into 1 ohm. That's really as good as it gets. They're also beautiful and their build quality is gorgeous.

I am not a fan of Wilson speakers honestly.