Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo

 @audition__audio  More than likely the dealer who is selling the Wilson's is also selling the D'Ag Relentless amps...and as such he can now make two sales. I wouldn't think that the big D'ag would break too much of a sweat on the new Wilsons. 

I read the review by MF of these in the current Stereophile mag. His comment about a few images appearing too tall is interesting. This problem is common in a number of larger/taller speakers that are on the market, along with their propensity to make instruments seem way too big overall. I wonder how many folk who buy these large speaker systems are concerned about these problems??

@edgewound They are not over priced so long as there is a market for them at that price, which apparently Wilson believes there is! The value proposition is another matter entirely....I think most folks these days would look at numerous products in the high end audio arena and conclude that the high price asked, in no way equates to the product offered. This doesn’t seem to have put a damper on the ever growing upwards pricing spiral. Certainly tells me something about the consumer to whom these products are aimed at though!

When I listened to the very nice Alexx V’s, I was quite aware that each speaker cost $65K. Looking at the speaker, and it is nice, there is simply no way that $65K each can be attributed to this product. When one looks at what $65K will buy you, nevermind the asking price of $130K, then one can see how truly absurd this pricing is, IMHO ( and we are not even talking the Chronosonic pricing here, which is even more out there). While the argument can be made that this is easily affordable for a lot of folks, who also apparently are audiophiles, I think that is somewhat irrelevant. More important is the fact that there is really no way to justify this number, at least in my realm of experience, to this product...kind of like asking $20K for the desk top computer I am typing this on...just doesn’t really compute, pun intended.!!

@nationalbar Looking at the pricing points of the Wilsons ( or for that matter any high end product that has a multi kilobuck number attached) is something that serves little purpose to me. I think we tend to forget that there are a lot of folks who make tens of millions of dollars a month...so paying $850K for speakers is really nothing but chump change to them. The hardest thing that these folks have is finding ways to actually spend the money....

@edgewound I always laugh when I see an example of what you posted about with guitar ’collectors’. I have a friend who cannot play a lick and who recently was more than happy to show me his newest Gibson LP Gold Top...which he just paid over $40K for! It will hang on the wall in his study, along with 10-20 other dried out ’collector’ pieces. Sometimes it makes me question why this guy has these very nice guitars and an ex-pro studio musician, like myself, has to do with their lowly Tele...then i play my beloved Tele and I wouldn’t swap for all the 'collector' guitars in the world...there is no fun in having guitars on a wall and not being able to play them, IMHO.

@john1   Uhmm, The Sasha 1 utilized the same Focal Tweet as the Watt Puppy 7...
How anyone could prefer that tweeter over the new Wilson silk dome is beyond me..
Yes, the YG Billetdome is very good, but IMO so are the new Wilson silk domes..unless you like ringing in the very HF's??

@jasonbourne52   The original price of the 40th Anniversary LP12 was $40K!! I think there are a few poor souls ( well a little poorer now) who actually ponied up for them! Made absolutely no sense to me at the time, just like the $25K price now...as this model doesn't even feature the new Karousel bearing.