So I went and listened to the Sasha's on Saturday. Very, very impressive sounding loudspeaker. I've never heard better in terms of overall coherency, dynamics, soundstaging - the works. I was smitten.
So I'm talking about it with my wife this morning. I showed her some pictures from Wilson's web site. She literally laughed out loud and said "you've got to be kidding, it looks like a robot!" This is the very tolerant woman who loves the look of McIntosh stuff and has encouraged me to get rid of the rest of my non-McIntosh gear.
Now I have to admit that when I look at pictures of the Sasha, some lyrics from Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage start to go through my head....
"It looks like a cross between an industrial vacuum cleaner and a chrome piggy bank with ..... "
I didn't find the appearance, in person, to be a problem at all. I've got pretty much free reign on the listening room, but her response was suprising. Our house isn't exactly in the style of Mies van der Rohe.
So, how did you do it?
How did you get to yes?
What was the collateral damage?
Throw me a bone here, would ya?
