New WAMM

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The old ones look a bit like your Goldmunds. Did you buy them at the same time after a comparison or are they younger?

I was earning a good salary and hate frequent upgrades so I decided to do a thorough evaluation for a choice to last me for a long time.
I listened to a lot of highly rated speakers, and the WAMMs were at the (then, now retired) Wilson distributor for France. I had been going to get the Wilson Grand Slamm but the WAMMs were used and therefor only about half price, or £65k or so. They were frequently quoted as the best speakers available in english language press.

They were pretty impressive, particularly in room shaking bass from the 18" units in 2 wardrobe sized enclosures. The dealer was also the Goldmund distributor and had both Apologue and Analogues on demo.
I already had a Goldmund turntable and CD transport but had never heard their speakers. In fact I (as an ex-vibration and noise research engineer) became more impressed by their approach to transducers than electronics after hearing these speakers. They had a clearly better instrumental timbre than the WAMM, and the bass was clean and clear without boominess or overhang (rare IME).
In the end I was considering the Apologues or B&W Nautilus but the Epilog was announced so I waited to audition that. In the end I preferred the simple Epilog 1 to the Nautilus, by a small margin and ordered a pair (and the Epilog 2 bass box unheard which became available quite a while later and made a smaller improvement that expected).
So, yes, it was at the time I listened to the WAMM that I discovered the virtues of Goldmund speakers and ordered the Epilogs. Overall my speaker search took about 2 years and I didn't seriously consider a change again for the next 15!