Watkins Stereo Generation FOUR Loudspeakers Compelling BARGAIN!!

Tempted by that too!  Very tempted.  But it really is A LOT bigger than what I currently have.  We'll see....  So many amazing speakers, so few places to put them!  cheers!

BTW, the post by IEALES is disrespectful and inaccurate.

Sorry Bill, but the post is accurate.

All drivers have a high frequency resonance. For Peerless 6.5" woofers it can clearly be seen here https://www.tymphany.com/transducers/sds-160f25cp01-08/ and here https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/peerless-woofers-6-7/peerless-830657-6.5-sds-woofer/ at about +10db. Response is quite ragged above resonance and increasingly bad off axis. NOTE: This is a driver property governed by physics and not a reflection on the Watkins Gen 4.

It appears the baffle is sloped about 13mm which is enough to offset the 14mm lead from the first order 3k, but no where near enough to account for the 35mm+ acoustic center discrepancy between the woof and tweet drivers. NOTE: This is not a defect of the Watkins Gen 4, but an indication of the reviewer's lack of understanding of loudspeaker fundamentals.

By all accounts the Gen 4 is a pleasing loudspeaker. Were they not 2800 miles away, I'd go have a listen.

Ieales, what are your credentials/background?   Do you review for a competing magazine?

Ieales, The peerless driver that they use is modified by Watkins. Maybe that decreases its resonance. The tweeter is also modified by Watkins.

I don't review for any magazine.
I've been involved with HiFi since the late 50's, worked as a [Grammy Nominated] recording engineer, built studios, designed electronics for professional film and recording studios.

Modifying a woofer will move, but not remove, a resonance. A 10db resonance is likely to be fairly audible.