The engineering team’s goal with Wilson Audio Duette was to create a product that would produce the signature Wilson sound in hostile environments.

In a hostile environment, early reflections from the adjacent surfaces compromise high frequencies, again wreaking havoc in the time domain and introducing grain and hash. Once again, the soundstage collapses into a flat, two-dimensional image.

Special Applications Engineering

Special Applications projects have a long and illustrious history at Wilson Audio. In 1983, Dave Wilson needed a small location monitor for the series of audiophile-acclaimed classical music recordings he was doing at the time. Finding nothing suitable on the market, he went into his garage and built the original WATT. Its truncated pyramid shape, constructed from mineral-filled methacryllic, broke the mold of then-current loudspeaker design and has been widely copied since for one reason: it works extremely well. Mated to its dedicated woofer enclosure, the WATT/Puppy continues to be Wilson Audio's longest running and best-selling loudspeaker.

With the advent of home theater, Wilson Audio was unwilling to simply jump into the market with "me-too" products. We chose, instead, to wait until the engineering team understood the problems well enough to offer solutions that were unique and groundbreaking. The WATCH Center Channel, WATCH Dog Subwoofer, and WATCH Surround speakers all offer Unprecedented performance and value in high-end home entertainment systems.