Rogan and Rollins brought me here.

@oldestpunkinargentina7766

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too; love Rollins. He's nuts. After spending what he did on his rig, it's little wonder why he hasn't time for women or friends.

@storypunk7102

4 жыл бұрын

Me too lol !

@richmoreno9938

3 жыл бұрын

Roggins.

At that price they are an absolute steal. A small price to pay for audio nirvana indeed. Bravo Wilson...bravo. You've done it again.

I'm wondering how many people commenting have actually listened to these speakers?I myself have heard hundreds of speakers and the Wilson's are absolutely amazing in every way.

@erichighsmith7299

5 жыл бұрын

rx7dude2006 it’s hard for me to notice the good sound of them while watching this on my iPhone 😐

@TheMusikryder

4 жыл бұрын

As amazing as they may sound no speaker should cost that much. No one needs a speaker that bad.

@richlabombard6780

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMusikryder Thankfully, your opinion does not matter. At all.

Henry Rollins has a pair of these

@RobShaffer

7 жыл бұрын

I just came here after listening to Joe Rogan's podcast with him. Ha!

@jimihendrix1575

5 жыл бұрын

good for him.

@tamaraanddomenicotiziano2567

8 ай бұрын

So do I and I adore them.

This WHOLE thing has me in STITCHES IM DYING LFMAO

I have some philips speakers from the local thrift shop and a sherwood amp from same place. 15 euros..and does the job.

I want these in my car.

@tamaraanddomenicotiziano2567

8 ай бұрын

They are over 600 pounds each LOL

Perfect speakers

I died at 'soul shaking lows'

Add a few $200 subwoofers off Amazon and you're all set!

@tamaraanddomenicotiziano2567

8 ай бұрын

Nope, grab a pair of Wilsons Third Hammers like we did and prepare to never leave your listening room

Wilsons, one of the best...

Have them with a pair of Thors Hammers, superb in every way. Adore them.

Henry Rollins...you crazy.

@thunderpooch

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, all it takes is reading a couple audio engineering books and speaker design books to realize no speaker has very much "magic woo" in them to justify a price much beyond $20 grand if they're the size of these speakers. Wilson speakers: you get heavy boxes, speaker drivers made by scan speak and altered slightly, possibly a few drivers by an eccentric company which isn't common, and then you get a well made crossover network. This is basic stuff. I like what they do, I just don't like that people are fooled by what they do. Not even Henry Rollins should part with his money in such a way. These are really only for Jeff Bezos to listen to for a day and then used as an anchor for his yacht. Why? Because he has money to do insane stupid bullshit.

Can I hook these up to my Crosley?

I had a pair of really nice Infinity floor standing RS line speakers back in the 1990's but they don't compare to these.

I bet it can even run Crysis

no one with a wife will be allowed to put these in their living room :)

@tamaraanddomenicotiziano2567

8 ай бұрын

Im a female audiophile, we do exist....and you shouldn't marry anyone that does not allow you to pursue your own interests! Go look at what she spends on purses, shoes and makeup LOL

Damn Rollins

"What are those!!??" - Reggie Watts

@erichighsmith7299

5 жыл бұрын

Bernardo Cantu haha, I’m listening to that episode right now

Published on Apr 9, 2013 it`s 2016

I have Montgomery Ward speakers. They’re great.

195 K ? Gimme a pair of Klipsch P39F at 30 K and a MacIntosh integrated SS amp and I'll spend the rest on hookers, booze and blow !!! Rollins has to be tone-deaf at 57 and having gigged like crazy for decades. One of his records is called ¨Volume¨FFS !! LOL !!!! To each their own but I don't think these sound 6.5 times better than my choice, plus the electronics to match !!!

@tamaraanddomenicotiziano2567

8 ай бұрын

Got AIDS yet??😂😂😂

I would take some Klipsch Palladiums ANY day over these. At 165lbs. each and $20,000 for a pair, there really is nothing the Palladiums can't do. They sound phenomenal, even with a humble Emotiva XPA-5.

@dougefresh133

7 жыл бұрын

blakeesmith84 I love the sound of horn loaded loudspeakers. Have you heard of Kenrick Sound of Japan? He rebuilds JBL Professional loudspeakers. I think he does amazing work, and would love a pair of them. Of course the amplification behind any loudspeaker makes all the difference...

@socksumi

7 жыл бұрын

For about $50k Kendrick can create products that equal or exceed what Wilson does for $300k.

@oldestpunkinargentina7766

5 жыл бұрын

ABSOFOOKINLOOTELY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ashilino

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah... Totally

@MBTexas196

9 ай бұрын

I worked at Klipsch and knew Paul Klipsch personally. Fun times

I'm not sold on any of this crap. Granted there's obviously a benefit to be gained by using high quality equipment, there has got to be a trade-off at some point. While I haven't had the pleasure of listening to anything coming out of this particular brand of speakers, I did get a chance to listen to an equally "exclusive" pair. I had dinner at the house of a partner from my firm and he had a pair of Steinway Model D's, or whatever the hell they were called. Now they certainly produced excellent sound, no question there, but I wasn't all that convinced it had everything to do with the $300k set of speakers sitting in front of me. I would imagine that a fairly inexpensive pair in the 10 to 15 thousand dollar range backed by good equipment and electrical signals would do just fine. I think these speakers are in the realm of people who buy them because "they can" and like to think of themselves as eking out that last drop of quality. In reality, if it were possible to do a blind test with only the speakers I wonder if they'd still be able to tell a difference.

200K just for the speakers. Then you need to spnd more on power components, source components, room acoustics, cables etc

@tamaraanddomenicotiziano2567

8 ай бұрын

Yep! Worth it!

anybody knows how to acquire such snobic voice?

@foxbaker1736

6 жыл бұрын

Antares Autosnob 3.0

@oldestpunkinargentina7766

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think the ad speaker is Brithish, just an american pretending to sound like one, and failing miserably at it.

@thunderpooch

5 жыл бұрын

@Mark Fischer I'm curious, what don't you like about them? My complaints are: 1. The price. Speakers are fairly basic and no amount of magic woo engineering can justify such absurdity, especially if they're easily reverse engineered. And let's be clear, all speakers can easily be reversed engineered. All they are is a box, drivers, and a crossover network. I can build the boxes. Other companies approximate the drivers by building their stock models; I doubt Wilson alters the drivers too much. And the crossover network can be achieved using a DSP and checking it and time aligning the drivers using a test microphone. 2. Can the rear firing tweeter be turned off? Sometimes an added bit of "air" is nice. But sometimes I want that dumb gimmick off because I realize trying to recreate "live sound" is a fool's errand which requires adding destructive interference and time arrival issues. Also, what do you build and specialize in? You mentioned you design your own and/or correct others.

@thunderpooch

5 жыл бұрын

@Mark Fischer Whoa, that's a lot to take in. Let me start with an easy question. You say you had to add eleven tweeters. Isn't the problem with adding tweeters is you're creating a lot of comb filtering since the frequency wave lengths are so small you'll never achieve proper center to center driver distance? Here's the thing I don't like about comb filtering created by speakers as apposed to when it occurs naturally from acoustic orchestra instruments: I can't control how or when it occurs from the speaker drivers since every piece of music is different, and given the acoustics of small to medium sized rooms I don't think this added comb filtering could ever sound correct or even desirable to naturally occurring comb filtering from instruments in a designed music hall/venue. You'd be adding interference for the sake of it possibly sounding good. I think the key to good speaker design (a design which makes a listener happy across most content) is flat response and low distortion, and then, most importantly, creating a room tailored to how you most often like to experience reflections. Recordings of live music are flawed and have limitations. Mics are not ears. As are studio mastered sessions. But audio engineers often listen to all this on near filed studio matters and then tweak and add tricks of the trade to create a sound they want the listener at home to experience. I don't think it's a good idea to create odd driver layouts which are adding to what the engineer intended. It becomes an unmanageable mess imho because it might sound good with some music and simply awful with other music. All I could see you doing to avoid this would be an outrageous design, but outrageously fun to hear how it would actually sound. You set up a tight circular pattern of tweeters and each tweeter would only cover about 1,000 hz using a 24db rolloff. Think of it as a ~12 way speaker. I think it would be a mess, but it could prove interesting.

@thunderpooch

5 жыл бұрын

@Mark Fischer Perhaps I should have said, "acoustical interference" as opposed to comb-filtering. www.audioholics.com/loudspeaker-design/comb-filtering What do you mean by your example of (18-1) so 17 x 16 x 15....x 2 x1? That indeed is a very large number but you seem to hint the effect keeps getting smaller as the number of drivers increases. I'm confused. Clearly between 18 drivers, you'll have 17 areas which give rise to the property of acoustical interference. Are you saying that the more you have as a result of the line array being longer and thus using more drivers, the less it is noticeable? Sort of a negative or inverse log function??? My calculus is weak. This is what I don't understand. If acoustic instruments create naturally occurring comb filtering and naturally occurring acoustical interference, than what makes us think that introducing speaker driver acoustical interference will add to the experience of realism? Is that the trade off? To appear more real we have to be less accurate? How many mics are typically set up to record an orchestra and how far apart? I would think 2, one left and one right. Apart from distance, that isn't too far off from a person using their two ears in a stationary listening position. What the mics pick up is naturally occurring acoustical interference and comb filtering. When we play it back I would think we need to recreate it as best as possible from a point source. I say this, and I have a line array at home. I have a love, hate, hate, relationship with it. The white paper that I read and had my friends used to design it knew of the limitations of a line array. I thought I understood it, but I fear I could be lost. The idea behind it was thus: able to create high efficiency and low distortion across a large frequency range using only a 2-way crossover. And a sub to augment when desired. The drawbacks as we saw them were: 1. The shorter the array the more vertical dispersion would be limited. 2. The longer the array, the more acoustical interference would increase as multiple driver gaps would take place. You seem to suggest the more gaps created, the less it matters for drivers playing the same frequencies. Granted, I wasn't worried about spacing between drivers using different band passes. That's even inevitable on any 2 way or 3 way "point source."

Stereo robots....

Do they even sound better than a pair of $5000 speakers at all?? Music can only sound so good, I can not imagine these $200k speakers sounding any better than a pair of vintage Sony SSG9, B&O M100 or Tandberg Studio Monitor. My vintage Nad 3020 and Tandberg TR1020 probably sound just as good as the $50k Bel Canto amplifier system. The problem with Hi-Fi nowdays is that some stupid people will spend $30k on speaker cables when the $50 cables sound the same, and some will buy these speakers when a vintage pair of high end speakers will sound just as good. There is so much scamming and rip-offs in Hi-Fi now, that is why I only buy vintage. They used to measure amplifiers by RMS, now they measure in peak power which makes zero sense. 50 watts used to be 50 watts, not 50 watts peak and 30 watts RMS.

@tamaraanddomenicotiziano2567

8 ай бұрын

I didnt believe it either until I went to listen with my son...he took crap from me the whole ride over...and we bought them that day. There are no words.

I bet they're nice but this advertisement makes me cringe

I could buy a house for the price of these loudspeakers. Uncool!👎 $190,000.00 is a bit to much for this product. I wouldn't even spend half of that! Those loudspeakers probably sound great but really, $190,000.00 great? Get real! If I was a rich man I wouldn't spend half of that. There are a lot of great products out there and you don't have to get robbed to own them! Just my 2 cents.

@thunderpooch

5 жыл бұрын

They're worth about $20,000, maybe even $40,000. But they don't do anything approaching $190k. And a lot have listened to them and don't like them, so what does that tell you? Seriously, pick up a few speaker design books and audio engineering books. It's fairly basic principles. You'll get the idea even if all the formulas don't come quickly to you. You'll understand what's at hand when trying to recreate sound and how to do it correctly and how to achieve certain desired results. You'll easily be able to look at speakers and get an idea what they're trying to achieve and the potential downsides of their designs. You'll also be able to spot "magic woo" claims a mile away.

@PlanktoniusRex

3 жыл бұрын

If you can't afford these then you can't afford to shit on the fact that they exist either. Because we live in a world of haves and have nots these have a market. To give you an example...if Jeff Bezos invested his fortune in a crappy certificate of deposit at any bank that produced a mere 3% APR he could buy three pair of these every single hour of every single day and never touch his principle investment. Let that soak in when you talk about money and value in this modern world. I am not defending these speakers or those who buy them but not everyone only has 2 cents to contribute.

If you have the wad and the best associated equipment, such as: Tenor amps, Continuum front end, top-end MC phono and top cables, with ultra clean mains power then you might just do these puppies some justice. A waste of money otheriwse.

@khunopie9159

9 жыл бұрын

I have these hooked up to a 200 watt Pioneer receiver and cd player and they sound amazing!

@musicman195959

7 жыл бұрын

Khu NoPie Where's the video of your speakers?

@khunopie9159

7 жыл бұрын

At your mom's house Robert Thompson

@musicman195959

7 жыл бұрын

Khu NoPie You don't have any speakers. You're just a idiot.

@khunopie9159

7 жыл бұрын

I want proof that I don't have these. Until you can produce evidence, you are just jealous and a bully Robert Thompson

This is so typical....mega buck speakers placed willy-nilly in a hard surfaced room with no acoustical treatment. I know of a guy who spent over $250,000 on his system, but refuses to treat his room. He pisses away more money every month on equipment, trying to get them to sound better than crap.

Just niche marketting

---> Focal Grande Utopia 3

couple hundreed dollars scanaudio and sb acoustic drivers, peek with zirconium hydroxide cabinet and a that's it 200.000 dollars, definitely is a scam

Only available to bank robbers🤣

"Clean soul shaking loads" there words not mine. lol These things are monumentally hideous.

@blunty6feetunder

6 жыл бұрын

lows

Around 200,000 dollars after tax. .... well..... just knock yourself out!

I thought this was satire. Yikes...

Pssst my door hinge sound more real than these hideomongous pieces turd looking speakers on a dry day!

And they ain't worth $195,000.

A loudspeaker does not need to be that large, and you are better off with a separate subwoofer that can be strategically placed in a room for the best bass. I can't take any speaker seriously that cost $200,000. That is beyond idiotic. You can buy a Ferrari for that kind of money. I'll take a pair of B&W 800 D3s which cost a fraction of these and mate them with a B&W DB1 and they will sound every bit as good for 1/7th the price.

@earneychiu5341

7 жыл бұрын

You are way below that level. This is for serious audiophile with deep pocket.

@Metrowhite

7 жыл бұрын

Why would you buy a ferrari when you can buy a prius? But, well... People still do.

@BreathEmpowerment

6 жыл бұрын

Right? I'm an entry level audiophile on a budget and I think my Tannoy 615s that I scored for $160 at an estate sale will do me fine for quite some time 😉 and I thought basic physics of sound and speakers says that having the sound come from the smallest point possible is preferable? These look huge, whereas my tweeters are mounted on top of my mid woofers

@thunderpooch

5 жыл бұрын

@@BreathEmpowerment You're onto something, with a few caveats. But I'd definitely take your approach than those $190k monsters. They're absurd, but I'm not entirely disparaging them. I guess if one has more money that common sense, or even a sense of duty for any other greater causes, than why not purchase some nice sound if it's to their liking?

@tamaraanddomenicotiziano2567

8 ай бұрын

Grab a pair of Thors hammers like we did. Our neighbors (5 acres away) hate us😂😂😂

RIPE OFF !

They dont sound 200.000$

Wison speakers do NOT sound like the real thing. Far from it. Like all speakers they have significant character and colorations, perhaps more than other high end brands given the fact they don't measure particularly well. What's really odd is you might expect as speakers approach stratospheric prices that their sound would more or less converge to the point where they sound very much alike. But they don't. A Wilson XLF and Focal Grande Utopia which both hover around $300k sound as different as chalk and cheese. The same goes for all the other $100k and up speakers. They all sound as different from each other as they do from $5000 speakers. And that makes one wonder... are you really getting $300k worth of sound? Or just something that's bigger and goes louder but really sounds no better than speakers priced 30 times lower.

@thunderpooch

5 жыл бұрын

I'll tell you what you're getting: low quality packaged in a high quality, low distortion way. What I mean by that is they are coloring the sound and adding in destructive interference. They're creating a sound they like. The problem with this approach is it won't sound good across all genres or styles of music. This leads to never ending purchases of "high end" speakers by rich fools. They just can't find what they're looking for. And it's by design. It's pretty easy to make a good speaker. 1. Low distortion...most can achieve this. Drivers are pretty good today. 2. Flat frequency response across the entire spectrum...again, most can achieve this. All this really means is the speakers are up for the task at hand. Testing equipment is cheap even for the DIY'er. This can be altered if you want. 2khz to 4khz is quite awful because it resonates due to the size and shape of your ear canal. 3000hz quite literally hurts for most people. If you want to lessen ear fatigue, consider dipping this area a bit. I'd leave everything else alone. 3. Now comes a wide area of preferences: the dispersion pattern. Wide for everything is typically good unless you're doing near filed monitoring. One can also choose to keep everything wide except the vocal range. This has the benefit of letting the vocal appear as pure as possible, but it can sound too contained. 4. Driver arrangement and configurations. This ties into number 3 but is more nuanced and gets more into design. Here we're considering drawbacks and advantages of line arrays vs point sources. I won't get into all of it. 5. The last thing the high end crowd enjoys dabbling in is just how much comb filtering and differing arrival times they want to introduce. These are all really garbage things to do, but if you claim you like "live sound" or a certain experience then it's an area for fools to embark in. And boy, do they. Here we see rear firing tweeters, odd driver layouts, and peculiar driver selections.

What human with a reasonable brain would ignore the poor and line a sicko like Mr. Wilson's pockets. No one needs these examples of sick decadence to enjoy music. These people should be ashamed of themselves yet they are not.