Wilson Audio Sophia rev 3


My listening room is 13 x 16' Is it big enough for a pair of Wilson Sophias? They would be driven with a BAT 75se amp. I do like to hear some bass. No, I don't want to use a sub. Has anybody ever considered these speakers to be fatiguing.?

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I’ve got Sabrina X in 13x23x10 and I assume that this speaker is comparable to the Sophia. I added subwoofers just for the bottom octave and have the crossovers set very low. I found that the sound was very dependent upon room treatment, which is a work in progress. I suspect that this is a common finding in a small to medium size room. The subwoofers actually made things more difficult and much of my room modifications involved very heavy furniture, carpet with heavy pad, large couch and a number of bass traps. So, I’ve tamed the bass and everything is quite musical and not tiring. I hope to investigate the use of diffusers to improve the soundstage and fine tune the bass traps

On my short journey to my present system, I had a phono preamplifier that was fatiguing and negatively impacted the upper registers of vocals.  Moving to the Audionet phono preamplifier fixed this issue.