$300,000 buys a lot of concerts....you know...live music? Reality? For years....Probably decades...
That's a fairly common refrain when high priced speakers come up.But I believe it misses the point.
Yes you could go to lots of live music. But could you see many of the previous great symphonies and conductors live in their prime? Or Led Zeppelin, or Rush, or Genesis, or Miles Davis, or Dave Brubeck, or Joni Mitchell, or..countless great artists on record?
The point most (who can afford it) have in buying great speakers, including cutting edge, is to "bring alive" to the extent possible WHATEVER recording they play, including the huge number of great artists and performances in recorded music that they could never see in live. To that person a recording of a great Herbert von Karajan performance, produced in thrilling sound in their own home, may be more desirable than seeing a live current performance of an orchestra or conductor who (they believe) can't hold a candle to the great performance.
So the worth of such a speaker shouldn't be compared to "whatever live music is available to go see today" but rather to the enhanced experience it gives to the catalogue of recorded (and contemporary) music...which likely comprises much more of the audiophile's listening time than live performance even could.
Plenty of us here have spent quite a lot on our sound system that we could have otherwise devoted to seeing live music. But there's a perfectly good reason we spent it on our audio system (even if we like live music too).
(And that's coming from someone who loves live music!)
(Also, I'm not commenting on the worth of the specific Wilson design, but on the general objection often suggested that spending money on live music makes more sense than on an expensive speaker).