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In Reply to: Priced a Maserati recently? posted by John Marks on April 4, 2015 at 19:18:39:
I respect Wilson Benesch for their engineering prowess and I own their speakers. I think you are doing them a disservice with your implied comparison to Maserati, whose products are all about style, status, and exclusivity more than performance.If you've listened to the Torus, maybe you can tell us what's so great about it besides having an 18-inch driver and weighing a ton. Those are not great selling points.
I think the design is clever, but I've also read that it doesn't really meet its claimed sub-bass extension, i.e. it's more of a woofer than a subwoofer. From what I've read, reinforced by my own experience with other WB speakers, I would guess that it's best attributes may be speed and transient response.
If it's not really delivering the last octave and below, like a high power DSP sub like JL Audio or big tapped horn sub can do, I think that it is going to be best suited to mating with small speakers. But when you consider the price of the Torus + amp is $12k, you would have to be running speakers like Magico Q1 or Raidho D-1 before it would make sense to even buy one Torus.
Edits: 04/07/15
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