If it is true that the competitor's speakers were B&W 800 Signatures then it is more surprising that the combination of B&W reference speakers with Krell electronics sounds inferior to the Wilsons with Parasound amp and an Appel iPod. This still sounds ridiculous to me. Something MUST be wrong.
wilson vs competitor battle demo
Hi folks, I have red something unbelivable in the latest TAS. During the January CES in Vegas David Wilson from Wilson Audio did a "battle demo" with Sophia speakers and another (anonymous) speakers from a competitor as the contestants. The competitor's speakers were a bit more expensive than the Sophia's. He drove his Sophia's with a $1000 Parasound amplifier and used an Apple iPod as source. The competitor's speakers were driven by a $7k Krell amplifier and the source was a Krell KPS-25 CD-player/preamp. The Wilsons won the battle demo by a margin! How is this possible folks? Should we all buy Wilson speakers and make no more expensive investments into amplifiers and CD/record players? Have Wilson speakers becoming a sort of panachea? This is scary!