Wilson Sasha's - All evolution in Wilsons are.....

Rapogee,

I've had Sophia 1s for a little over 4 years now. I love them, but I am thinking about replacing them with the Sashas.

I have listened to the Sasha's a few times at my dealer's store. I have heard them with Ayre MXRs, big Krell mono blocks and one of the more modestly priced tube Mac mono blocks.

I have not been very favorably impressed. But the room the dealer has them in small and the dealer says that they don't breathe well in that room.

Can you describe what you heard with them and what equipment was being used with them.

Thanks,

Ed

This is a very helpful thread for the Sashas in particular but also for the Sophias and driving them with different amps. I appreciate all of the comments.

I am driving Sophia 1s with Lamm M1.2s and Ayre K-1xe preamp. Cables are Purist Anniversary. Outrageously expensive, but what a difference they have made with the Ayre-Lamm-Sophias combo. They have taken the system where I wanted to go but was unsure I would ever get there. I know Elberoth2 was disappointed with the Sophia/Lamm M1.2 combo. I must admit that I did a fair amount of tube rolling and cable rolling before I finally heard what I was looking for.

I would like to move on to the Sashas, but it will be awhile before I can afford to make that move. My next big upgrade will be replacing my Ayre C-5xeMP, Sony blu-ray and Exemplar Denon 5910 (if I can bear to part with it) with Ayre's new DX-5 and then I will rip all my CDs to a music server connected to the DX-5.

Ed