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here is the story of the most elaborate and expensive hi-fi system that @brileigh and I have ever heard: we met this hi-fi dealer—let’s call him Larry—when visiting nyc after I inquired about a particular brand of electronics that only they and two other dealers in the U.S. happen to carry (Spectral Audio). more about Spectral another time, though. we were brought to a smaller room than this one and another staff member set up our modest demo of a CD player, preamplifier, stereo amplifier, and floorstanding speakers. after about 30min of listening, Larry burst into the room with his walker clanking loudly. he had recently had surgery on his leg or foot, and he joked that he was considering bringing a mattress to the hi-fi showroom so that he could sleep here instead of commuting.

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Wilson Audio is an american speaker company that was founded by David and Sheryl Lee Wilson in novato, california in 1974. since 1991, they’ve been building their speakers in provo, utah. the speakers you see here are Wilson Chronosonic XVX, the largest floorstanding speaker they make. a pair weighs ~ 1370lb (622kg) and will run you ~ $370-400k USD depending on the paint finish. the Chronosonics are the dark, Ridley Scott inspired fantasy of an obsessive engineer trying to extract an unnatural amount of performance from a cone-based ported loudspeaker. it’s a speaker that shouldn’t exist, but does. one of Wilson’s core design philosophies is minimizing cabinet resonances, so the XVX has a dedicated cabinet for nearly every individual speaker driver to ensure that one does not interact with the other. the drivers are as follows: 1x 12.5” (woofer), 1x 10.5” (woofer), 2x 7” (lower midrange), 1x 4” (upper midrange), 1x 1” (front-firing tweeter), and 1x 1” (rear/up-firing tweeter).

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