Everything Wilson Audio knows about loudspeaker design is now contained in our flagship product, the Alexandria.

Dave learned that what he was hearing in the Musikverein comprised two distinct elements in the time domain: (1) Early Sound. This is the direct sound from the instrument, followed by an initial time delay gap of approximately 20 milliseconds, followed by the first reflected sound arriving within the first 80 milliseconds. (2) Reverberant Sound. The last remaining reflections arrive and decay over the next 1.5 to 2 seconds. It’s the reverberant reflections which generally impart the “sound” of the hall, but the makeup of the Early Sound (direct + initial time gap + earliest reflections) determines the beauty, the richness, and the clarity of the music itself.

Just as it seems remarkable that a seasoned (and, one might even suppose, jaded) conductor could find something revelatory about music offered to him by a particular concert hall, so it might seem surprising to learn that Dave Wilson himself concluded an instrument as revealing and musical as the original Alexandria was obscuring some vital part of the music. Nevertheless, that’s what he realized and at the same time, recognized he knew – in theory at least – what to do about it.