The World's Best Loudspeaker?

As long as loudspeakers are designed by human beings, they will perforce reflect the passions, the tastes, and the biases of their maker.  So it is with the new Alexandria Series 2.  

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The World's Best Concert Hall?

The Musikverein in Vienna, Austria is certainly regarded in the handful of top halls in the world, halls that listeners and musicians alike revere for their acoustic felicity.  

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Sound of Silence

Over the years, Wilson has conducted more research into the sonic properties of various materials than any other loudspeaker company. The original quest was to find the ideal cabinet material. But Wilson’s engineers quickly came to understand a basic acoustic principle: no single material is suited for all loudspeaker applications. Read More

Noel Warr, saddlemaker

It’s a little difficult for most of us to conceive: before the industrial age, pretty much everything was custom made, from pants to boots to saddles. If you ordered a Noel Warr saddle, you’d have been well advised to cultivate patience because the man couldn’t be hurried. But, in the end, you knew what you were getting. “His craftsmanship was not for recognition, but [for the] passion and art of building a high quality saddle that people would cherish.” Read More

The Last Quarter Inch

Our commitment to the quality of your listening experience doesn’t end when you hand your money to the dealer. That’s because your authorized Wilson dealer will come to your home and set up your new loudspeakers in your listening environment. Every room is different, and nothing will impact the quality of your final listening experience more than how the loudspeaker is positioned in that singular space. ” Read More

Extravagant

All of the machined ports in Wilson Audio loudspeakers are milled from solid billets of aluminum.
They are undeniably striking examples of machine art. But are they necessary? Read More

PolyMath

"The ability to translate the problems of high-end audio reproduction in real-world situations into the language of mathematics and back again is not what you'd expect from your garden-variety engineer. At Wilson, we assign great value to a piece of paper and a pencil in the hands of Engineer Vern Credille. Read More

Blind Test

As part of Wilson Audio's continuing material research, mechanical engineer Blake Schmutz is setting up a blind listening test, connecting speaker wire from a custom built switcher to three seemingly identical WATTs. Each WATT enclosure, however, is constructed from a different combination of materials.   Read More

Invisible to the Naked Eye

The last thing we do in the manufacture of our loudspeaker enclosures—the application of the WilsonGloss™ finish—is apt to be the first thing the customer notices in the showroom. It’s the immediate visual expression of the attention to detail that underlies everything else we do. Read More

Point Five Percent

Caleb Mower is hand soldering wiring on one of our crossovers. He's using two different types of solder: one chosen for the upper frequencies, the other for the lower. When finished, the crossover will measure tighter than the industry standard, matching the reference within plus or minus  0.5%. Read More

x Turns per Inch

Mark Page is painstakingly twisting the cable so that it will have exactly x turns per inch. The value of x is not a constant; it depends on the driver, the crossover, and the loudspeaker. X is also a proprietary value derived from careful listening and analysis. Read More

4/1000s of an Inch

Using a calibrated precision straight edge and a feeler tool, Joe Allan looks for any anomalies in the raw speaker cabinets. If the flat blade of the feeler tool—which is exactly 4/1000 of an inch thick—slides beneath the bar at any point, that indicates a deviation from flatness unacceptable to Wilson. Read More

Like a Proud Parent

Q.C. engineer Jeff Huntamer loves testing his drivers, the electro-mechanical heart of a loudspeaker. Each of his drivers—whether custom built to Wilson's specifications or modified by Jeff himself—is tested and matched, both to the other drive units in the speaker and to the other channel. Read More

14 Times the Cost of MDF

Luke Rowley is loading a "spoil board" on the KOMO Computer Numeric Control Router. Soon, he'll begin cutting the component panels of a Wilson loudspeaker out of Wilson's proprietary X material, a phenolic resin as rigid as steel but with greater internal damping and a cost 14 times that of MDF. Read More

Listener

Despite employing a cadre of first-rate engineers, Dave Wilson knows that every loudspeaker that leaves the factory bears his name. That's why the design of every loudspeaker—whether the newest model or the latest refinement of one nearly 15 years old—isn't done till it meets Dave's approval. Read More

A Perilous World

It's not unusual on Fridays, when Wilson ships the week's production, to find Director of Manufacturing Korbin Vaughn in the shipping department. It's the moment of matriculation for the products he's guided so watchfully through the manufacturing process. Now they're leaving his care to journey into a perilous world. Read More

WATT/Puppy 8

Wilson Audio's signature product, in continuous production since the 1980s, now appearing in System 8 iteration. Not content with its position as one of high-end audio's enduring icons, the WATT/Puppy System 8 is determined to be the standard bearer in its class. Read More

Of Tweeters and Truth

At Wilson Audio, it's safe to say that joining bandwagons has never been part of our corporate culture; a fanatic desire to make better loudspeakers always has. The WATT Puppy System 8 has the tweeter from the MAXX 2. Because it's the one that sounded best. Read More