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

I don’t think he know what he’s talking about.

The cabinets are no longer made of Corian though that’s what he said.

He make a huge deal about the tweeter and midrange sharing a common cable out of the crossover so that the tweeter has to go through a 220 mfd cap, which he po poo’s to no end. But when I look at the picture of the speaker’s backside, I see separate mid and high sets of cables out of the woofer cabinet. So why would he think the tweeter goes though the big cap?

He doesn’t know how Wilson does the woofers and didn’t bother to read the Stereophile article that clearly notes that both woofers are in parallel along with a 20 ohm resistor.

BTW, I put a 30 ohm resistor in parallel with the 18" JBL woofer of my speakers.  It smooths out the response tremendously.

The problem as I see it is that you can’t really compare the changes he makes because you can’t A/B them in real time with the before version.

And, anyone who spends a bunch of $$$ for a modification will have a bias toward it just because they did.

...Or, they could sound better if reducing the impedance also reduces the Q resulting in a more linear response or reducing a peak.

"An amps ability to drive lower impedance loads has no relation to the amps quality."

I can’t agree with this. The ability to drive lower impedance loads means that the power supply has to be up to the task. This would include such things as heavier gauge wiring in the transformer, and other places, and "bigger" supply caps, and that does infer a higher quality.

Here's a thought...,  

If you design your speakers so that anything can run them, there's going to be a lot of crappy stuff out there running them making them sound crappy and giving them a bad rep, even if undeserved.