Wilson Sophia 3 vs Sabrina


Hi. Few years ago I demo home Sasha 1 and was blown away. Since than I listen Sophia 3 many times and decided to go with S3 as soon I construct my new listening room. I'm not so impressed with last Wilson speaker generation. Well, that was until I heard Sabrina at Innivation Audio showroom and first time I liked how new tweeter sound. Sabrina sound to me more coherent than any Wilson I heard. Still, I prefer Sophia power and scale, but not sure which can give me more plasure. Anybody compare them?
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I have auditioned the Sabrina's twice, once in a small show with Constellation amps and once at a dealers with quite a simple system of ARC LS17 and ARC Ref 75. On both occasions I was very impressed indeed and I am not a Wilson fan. On neither occasion were other Wilson Speakers available as a comparison, though Sasha's were in another room with different amps. They held together across the frequency spectrum, played loud, but at low volumes to, without the soundstage collapsing. In short they were excellent.

The Sabrina was very favourably reviewed in the UK magazine HiFi News. The reviewer suggested he could happily swap them for his Alexia's. He also said the sharp impedence drop to 2.4 at 146hz, made them unsuitable for tube amps. I have to say they sounded pretty good with the ARC REf 75's
Not questioning Max's experience, but the first time I listened to the Sabrina's, was in a really large hotel conference suite. The system did not seem to have a problem filling the room with sound.