Upgrade path from Wilson WattPuppy 7s? - seeking advice

Dave, I know you are a good guy, because Matt vouches for you.  That's all I need.  Will I come in to meet you in person? Someday. I have to as we haven't seen eye to eye on some things and Id' rather do that in person than on a faceless forum.  

I have never liked Paradigm's high end.  Every.  My daughter has a pair I used to own.  She sings (even made the cut at Idol and The Voice when she was 16) and even she says they are too bright.  It's the top end and no matter what amps I've heard them with, they were just too bright for me.  Again, that's just me and it's one of the biggest things I don't like about gear.  I'm sensitive to it.  I didn't like the metal wilsons, but enjoy listening to the soft dome ones.  I just don't feel they have the detail I get from other speakers.  Still a nice speaker and highly dynamic.  B&W diamonds are too bright for me also.  Way too upfront.  Sonus F are too soft for me now days.  I liked their older ones better.  The newest Magico's S3 newest mark ?? were a bit dry. Highly dynamic and not coherent in the mid bass region down.  It didn't mate well for MY ears with the mids on up.  It was a strange listening session for me and Peter McKay was the one who set them up in a great sounding room.  

There are my reasons as to why I love my Vandersteen's.  I'm in no way associated with them.  Do I know the folks there?  Yes, I do know them.  I also know folks at a lot of places as over the years you meet people.  Heck, my ex was Mark Levinson's attorney when we were married back in the 90's, lol. ...The man, not Madrigal.  

Sounds like the OP love the Wilson sound and if so, that's awesome, but he should (if he can) go listen to all the speaker lines and include Rockport if possible.  Then he can figure out what he wants and loves.  JMHO.  

Troy:
gee. The fact that you cannot stop talking or producing words in print--often way off point--- was your problem as a salesperson (which made you intolerable to me and others). My only point to you has ever and will always be to stop hard selling. I am not a defender of Wilson, Magnepan, B&W, Focal, Reference 3a, Marten, Quad or any other speaker brand that I’ve heard, owned or liked. I completely understand why anyone would prefer one speaker brand over another. This hobby is extremely subjective. 
  I just cannot tolerate your constant hard salesmanship usually with outrageous, over the top unbelievable comparisons. You've done it for countless components you sell--it now just happens to be Personas. Your style is offensive to more than a few Goners who have extensive experience in audio and don't need any salesman to tell them that they have the most and best experience and have reached the indisputable conclusion that they sell the best speaker ever made at a great price if only someone would come to have a listen. I will continue to remind you that I welcome Atmasphere, Kevin Deal, Jonathan Carr, fellas from DCS, BelCanto and countless other manufacturers and dealers who add great knowledge to our site without EVER selling their gear here.You continue to be the only one. But this site does not prevent salesmanship. You are allowed to speak endlessly.  Keep it up. If the moderator doesn’t stop you, I will call you out whenever you produce thousands of words to waste everyone’s time including mine with rank salesmanship. 
PS-You sell some fine gear. The manufacturers you represent are not the problem--you are.

Grbgr4u, 

Please just go away, you are not doing anyone a service, your constant negativity and selfrighoutness cause me  or my staff to retort over and over again to back up my positions, which leads to these long posts.

Again, I shouldn't have to mention over and over again, Tone Audio's Reviews, or the Absolute Sounds reviews to PROVE BEYOND A SHADOW of a doubt that the Personas are a serious new addition to the world of high performance speakers, you can not deny that fact just because we champion the product.

Whether or not someone hears  a well setup pair of Personas in a shop such as mine or another well set up pair somewhere, and they come to the same conclusion is a matter of personal taste. Just as if they choose Wilson, Rockport, YG or anything else over a set of Personas.

What is unfortunate is that many people here base their buying decisions on limited data, or limited exposure, so for example if customer x hears speaker Y at one shop and that shop hsd  a well set up demo room and speaker b is setup poorly in another shop,  the client may be making a purchase decision based on wrong data. 

Your calls of impropriety for writing on a Wilson post to call attention to a set of speakers that might make the poster happier and save them money is proof of your bad and selfish behavior. Most people really don't care. 

Many people who post here are seeking opinions and are trying to make a decision on what to purchase. There were other people mentioning a whole bunch of speakers on this post, yet I am the only person you berate over and over again.

I like a lot of products and some of these that I don't sell I would own, while others I would not.

The fact that you and your freinds don't want to work with me is no problem, on the same token please keep on wasting your money, I am quite sure I could have saved you a ton of it and perhaps have made your system sound much, much better. 

Am I loquacious yes I am, am I knowelegable yes, an I known for consistantly geeting good sound and finding emmerging brands yes all of that is true. 

Lets see if you will shut up or have to retort to this post,  I am ready to move on can you? 

I have recommended to the poster that he comes to NY to hear the world of audio from many dealers other than myself. Do you have any other coaching for this gentleman?

Dave owner,
Audio Doctor NJ

 You are too busy talking and selling to understand my issue with you.It's not that you think Personas are great speakers for the $. You are justly entitled to that opinion. It is that you constantly sell, sell and oversell. Hyperbolic blather.

As usual Gprgrblu, you have to have the last word. Do you have any practical advice other than what I have given to this gentleman?

Do you have anything to add please advise us? 

Do you know that I am approached by people reading these posts who contact me and find much of what I am saying to be valuable. 

I wouldn't have to "sell, sell and oversell if you would just shut your trap.

Again, how many times do I have to retort to your stupidity, you make ridiculous statements that have to be backed up again, so it appears to you that I am doing this "selling" which is my way of replying to you to validate my claims and prove you don't know what you are talking about.

What you seem to think of as selling as us stating ancedotal evidence to back up the claims you refute. You also equate price with performance.

When I said we had the $120k Kharma Grand Exquistes here would you like to see a picture of them in their crates? I am more than happy to oblige. 
I did love the Kharma DB9 by the way, but they did not sound as good as the Polymers, the Personas are the first $35k speakers which can actually challange the Polymers which are remarkable speakers by the way.

Do you think I would shell out $60 or 70k to bring in a set of speakers which as I said were good but not better than a $70k pair of Polymers that I allready own? Do you actually understand that retailers have to purchase their display stock and so I am going to be very picky at what I am going to pay for.

You can see the $70k Polymers in my store video as well as the Blades I have posted videos did you actually see how much gear and the quality of brands we represent? That is one of the ways that I know what I am talking about. 

Do you want to see a picture of us comparing the T+A to the Boulder ata cutomers house? Again I got that too. Did you read my comments on that comparison? Would you like to talk to the man who was there?

I don't know how old you are I am 52 and quite frankly I haven't witnessed too many people in this or any other business who are as blatently vindictive and nasty as you are.

You make statement after statement which you can't back up, I can back up mine. Every product I have ever championed has become at the time the go to product in that catagory or one held in high regard from the critics.  From the AMR CD 77, to the Auralic Vega, to the CJ Art and Gat. to the Scaena speakers, the Ushers and many others. 

I call em as I see em, and as I stated before there are products I don't sell that I like, at this point there isn't too much on the market that I would actually care to bring in that I don't allready carry.

If you don't have anything pertinent to add to this man's quest for new speakers or do you want to go on another diatribe about me and "selling" please just go away. 

Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ