18-Aug-2017, 13:24
I recently had the good fortune of visiting brit and hearing his wonderful setup - essentially a 1000 PRO feeding a pair of Wilson-Benesch A.C.T. speakers.
I was so impressed by his speakers that I thought I would create a dedicated thread to discuss all matters Wilson-Benesch.
Two things really grabbed me about his speakers: the extraordinary imaging that was never at the expense of musicality and thunderous bass from a fairly moderate enclosure. Talk about great speaker/room integration!
This has got me seriously thinking folks...
Now I'm not going to underestimate the contribution of the 1000 PRO, which to my ears seemed to be doing something better than my O d'A. Yes it's very difficult to disentangle cause and effect in these things, particularly in a room you are not so familiar with, but still... you know when something sounds really good.
Anyway back to the speakers... now I could be wrong but Wilson-Benesch doesn't seem to have much of a presence in the UK. I remember a few years ago when I was auditioning the Sophia 3s and wanted to hear the Wilson-Benesch speakers (can't remember which model now) it seemed terribly difficult to arrange an audition as there were just no dealers in the South East. In the end it never happened, although to be fair Wilson-Benesch did eventually get in touch to offer me a home demo, it was just a bit too late since I had already committed to the Sophias...
So I am now thinking about revisiting Wilson-Benesch and have sent them an email asking what the possibility would be of home auditioning their A.C.T. One Evolution speakers.
To be continued I guess...
Guillaume
I was so impressed by his speakers that I thought I would create a dedicated thread to discuss all matters Wilson-Benesch.
Two things really grabbed me about his speakers: the extraordinary imaging that was never at the expense of musicality and thunderous bass from a fairly moderate enclosure. Talk about great speaker/room integration!
This has got me seriously thinking folks...
Now I'm not going to underestimate the contribution of the 1000 PRO, which to my ears seemed to be doing something better than my O d'A. Yes it's very difficult to disentangle cause and effect in these things, particularly in a room you are not so familiar with, but still... you know when something sounds really good.
Anyway back to the speakers... now I could be wrong but Wilson-Benesch doesn't seem to have much of a presence in the UK. I remember a few years ago when I was auditioning the Sophia 3s and wanted to hear the Wilson-Benesch speakers (can't remember which model now) it seemed terribly difficult to arrange an audition as there were just no dealers in the South East. In the end it never happened, although to be fair Wilson-Benesch did eventually get in touch to offer me a home demo, it was just a bit too late since I had already committed to the Sophias...
So I am now thinking about revisiting Wilson-Benesch and have sent them an email asking what the possibility would be of home auditioning their A.C.T. One Evolution speakers.
To be continued I guess...
Guillaume
Industry disclosure: UK distributor for Shunyata Research
220 PRO, totaldac d1 server with additional external power supply, totaldac d1-seven, Echole PSU for Totaldac, Wilson Audio Sasha 2, Shunyata Research cables, Shunyata Hydra Alpha A10 + DPC-6 v3, Various Entreq ground boxes and cables, Entreq Athena level 3 rack, 2 X SOtM sNH-10G with sCLK-EX + 10MHz Master Clock input + sPS-500 PSU, i5 sonicTransporter w/ 1TB SSD
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