Wilsons are the best speakers in the world

@koost_amojan


Yes the F cone is a fibrous fabric design. Excellent cone material. JM Lab are following well understood and proven design criteria while many manufacturers do not. Sandwich designs allow for shear mode damping if the internal material between the sandwich is soft - this works well.

https://www.focal.com/en/flax-sandwich-cone

The point I am making is about internal damping and the importance of "neutrality of the sound" as JM Labs puts it. Cones with high internal damping sound better to me as they reproduce timbre more accurately due to the lack of internal resonances to color the sound. I only mention pulp paper and fabric or doped fabric as two long proven examples that work and are highly damped internally. Flax is a fabric so I would include F Cones in my short list of better sounding transducers.


Of course you can use other materials to make a light internally damped diaphragm however Metal and Ceramic and plastic/polypropylene are popular but definitely poor choices for materials and the coloration that their ringing adds is very audible to my ears. Accuton had to add rubber dampers on their cones because the ringing was so bad!

@kosst_amojan     


Good point. It is hard to totally generalize. Wilson has its share of lousy designs as well as designs that are legendary like the Watt Puppy.

I would say to my ears the best sounding Wilsons are with pulp and paper woofers/mids and fabric domes.

I understand that not everyone is sensitive or focussed on timbral accuracy and to some the ringing from rigid cone materials is no big deal.

Wilson make excellent speakers with extremely high quality build and finishes. They are widely available. A sort of Rolex of audio. They sound excellent and although they may not be of great value they are solid well built and keep their resale value. 

They sound much better than B&W to me and the pulp and paper and fabric dome drivers they used are better (to my ears) than ceramic accuton ones used on Kharmas (Kharma are great speakers too). 

Hard rigid drivers (polypropylene, metal, ceramic) will "ring" and this affects timbre and muddies details. I can hear it.