Wilson X-1 Grand Slamm

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Opening price of $34k

Interesting to see a seller with zero feedback rating starting off with such an expensive item! Not implying anything dodgy! There's a phone number and email address, just seems to be jumping in at the high end!

Not too keen on them looks MOself!

Oh well, i'll put my $34K back in my pocket

 

Ken Kessler creamed himself about those speakers in a recent issue of HFN. I think they're quite a bit more than $34K new (I think in fact they're more like $120K so it would be a bargain if you moved in those kinds of circles!)

Michael.

 

It says 80K retail on there.

And apparently a bargain at that price too!

 

Two pairs and a bag of dolly mixtures, please.

 

Looking at the pic that mo posted....

If you had these speakers, would you sit that close to them?

 

Eh? Wassat?

 

I reckon that the ideal positioning for these babies (aesthetically and acoustically) would be somewhere in the next town, preferably the next country.

 

Why? have you heard a pair then?

 

No.

 

In fairness they do look like typical american crap, super huge and therefore super good.

All things being relative there must be better looking speakers out there that can deliver the goods. Hell even if they were twice the price, with this sort of money who cares?

£80k for a pair of speakers, some one here tell me how that could be justified. But I'll make it fair, lets assume that wilson sell to their distributors for £20k.

Someone here justify how they are £20k

 

If I was going to spend that kind of money I'd probably be getting a pair of JM Focal Labs Grande Utopia Be's Much better looking and probably sound a lot better too.

But I agree with you garyi - IMO it's simply not possible to justify $80K for a pair of speakers.

Michael.

 

More to the point Gary, whilst I agree with your disbelief, how do Naim justify 5K for their "bad sounding tweeters on a stick"

 

Merlin. I guess you ar attempting to point to the pointlessness of it all, after all one mans meat is another mans etc etc.

Although I think you will agree a lot of the american market is like everything else they sell, super huge, super slow and super ugly.

 

michael,
the ones kk creamed himself over were the alexandrias which superceed the x1's i believe.
i'd love to hear a pair, just so i can shake my head and say they're bollocks from a position of knowledge.
aparently somewhere in colorado very rich man has had a big hole blown in a mountainside and then filled it with a home theatre. he uses 5+ of these! aparently it cost over a million dollars.....
cheers


julian

 

I dont see a problem with it. If people work hard to earn their money and decide they want to spend it on $80K speakers, good luck to them I say. Its their money, thay can do what they like with it.

 

Absolutely right, although I suspect that people are asking how the manufacturer can justify the price tag, not whether someone who enjoys the sound can justify the purchase.

 

Of course if someone with a bundle of cash wants to blow $80K on a pair of speakers then it's totally up to them but I simply can't see how anyone could justify it from a price/performance point of view.

However, we've had this argument on here before and it doesn't really lead anywhere so I'll shut up now

Michael.

 

I sentence you to three months being bashed over the head with a meadowlark...

 

Yep, that's where I thought the price criticism comes in.

Much like them 7th Veil speakers! Anyone seen them? Cost an arm and a leg! And as for them Omiga Audio cables!

 

Dont worry Isaac, Gary obviously hasn't heard much yank kit and is just relying on the same tired old Naimie prejudices