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

About the crazies thread ive ever heard

This whole hobby revolves around first world problems.

As a long time builder of high end DIY speakers, using high quality parts, good engineering practices, and hours of listening with a panel of several people to "voice them".

I can state pretty confidently, that the modifications and upgrades Danny makes, are all following good engineering practices, with the goal of improving sound quality.

Flattening out the very choppy frequency response, compensating for edge diffraction, improving impedance curves, reducing stored energy of the drivers, etc, is NOT a difference of opinion with the original designer on the voicing of the speaker.

Bad design (as seen in the original measurements of the Watt/Puppy’s in the vid), is bad design.

No good designer would set out to design a speaker with that frequency response as a goal, if they were shooting for accuracy.

I am pretty balanced between an objective and subjective listener, when the context is correct for them, but there are certain objectively measurable parameters that almost always lead to an inferior sounding speaker.

Just for context, I don’t own any of Danny’s speakers (I have bought his NoRes damping material), but I have heard a pair of his current 2nd top of the line kits, NX-Otica, and for the $3800 price, (and a couple of weekends of labor), the end resulting speaker can easily compete with the sound quality of speakers at 4X the price, without exaggeration.

I also helped a friend upgrade a pair of Klipsch speakers with Danny’s upgrade kits, and they succeeded in turning an unlistenable pair of speakers, into a decent budget pair of speakers.

Are they not a 20 year old speaker at this piont, i'd imagine Wilson has improved much since then. 

About the craziest thread I've ever heard

@hiend2 ,

You want crazy, like room with the rubber wallpaper crazy, go over to the 'Best audio prank ideas' thread.