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Re: Wilson/AudioPerfectionist

Sorry, I am just catching up with this. I meant the larger Wilsons tend to have a small sweet spot, IMHO. As always in these cases there are 400 other parameters which may or may not improve the situation. But the four or five times I have heard Wilsons, the Sophia always impressed me the most. The Maxx the least. I heard the Maxx at RMAF but that was in terrible conditions. Before that it was HE2006 in LA, they were excellent as long as you were in the small sweet spot. Same with a private listen in Berkeley CA a couple of years ago. Excellent in a small area. Also in Berk, the Sophias were awesome. I don't like the sound to change when I look down to read or move 2". So shoot me.

As many know, I don't do so well with the science and math side of speaker building, I depend on computers, ears and persistance. But one of my theories is that listening to woofers a little off axis presents a larger sweet spot. I think it has to do with the shape of the output, dead on you are limited to a small round area, off axis you are in a larger area that looks like a smile. So off axis using toe in on a flat front speaker presents a vertical smile sweet spot, a speaker tilted back presents a horizontal smile sweet spot.

This is another reason I don't really care for MTM. I know there are some good ones out there, but they tend toward small sweet spot, IMHO. This has played out in my speaker building, a recent MTM in test is moving to an MMT because I could not get the sweet spot large enough. My HT set is sloped front and have a wide sweet spot. This did not play out with my wood cone speakers from last year. Those were simply towers yet had one of the largest sweet spots ever.

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