Wilson Benesch ARC Monitors - Any comments?


I'm considering changing speakers in my small listening room and listend to the WB ARC monitors at a Dallas dealer. I haven't seen any on the used market.

Any comments about these speakers or about their used availability?

Thanks,
Joel
joeldoss
These speakers are great - have stunning clarity, a focused bass, and are very neutral. They can however sound a bit clinical so need to be driven by something with a bit of excitement to it, e.g. Naim.
They are quite a recent design so it is unlikely you will find them used - I have yet to see a pair for sale in the UK!
WB Speakers are hard to come by in the US and therefore seldom seen on the used market - this goes especially for the new models.

Regarding the comment that WB is a clinical speaker, I must disagree. All WB speakers are super neutral and hence do nearly nothing to color -- add or subtract -- from a the sound of a system. Keep in mind that NOTHING is totally neutral but.. the WBs are very hard if not impossible to detect as having a particular sonic signature.

If a system with Wilson-Benesch speakers sounds clinical its a result of the system and not the speakers. The speakers play exactly what you feed them and are sonic chameleons with different components and cables.
I think that's what adamryan meant by clinical. They don't add or subtract. Highly neutral...clinical. Nothing wrong or necessarily derogatory about his comments. Just seems like good, sound advice.