Wilson Audio Haters

Someone else said:
"The more popular the brand, the more fans and the more detractors."

I couldn't agree more.  I do "feel your pain" as I own a McIntosh preamp and power amp, match up very well with my other equipment.  There are probably more "McIntosh haters" out there, compared with "Wilson haters".

I guess that's why they make chocolate and vanilla......

@vassils

Agree about the wild claims by Bo. However, there are many here who claim to hear the horns of Valhalla with all manner of ridiculous tweaks. Many claim that audio equipment does NOT work properly until you find the “right” matching cable or “right” fuse or power cord and that the only way to get it close to right is to keep swapping out cables randomly until something takes your fancy. Of course, you can never get the set up completely right as the permutations are endless - so apparently you are just to keep on tweaking forever. The fact that equipment is supposed to be designed to work properly with any suitable cable or fuse and should be expected to work properly if equipment is of high enough quality; these facts are somehow lost on these folks. This allows the virtues to be lauded of all manner of finicky and completely unreliable gear.

Well, I agree with a lot of things said here, even with some of the high-level philosophy of the One and Only God of Audio (OOGA). But a quick fact check showed that the word of the OOGA is to be trusted less than the word of a car salesman. Nothing wrong with car salesmen but they are on the bottom of my trust list. I don’t want to use a dealer or an audio consultant even if he is the OOGA if he cannot be trusted. I don’t want to have anything to do with people who lie. All these promises and claims and at the end of 2017 - nothing! Since it is the end of the year, he would probably start saying the same things about 2018 now.

Some people like tweaking their systems. It’s their hobby. If you take this away from them (by putting the “perfect” components), they may even stop listening to music. Other people like to listen to music and don’t fiddle with their system. Yes, it would be nice to have objective measurements, but claiming that whatever that measurement shows would be better than your personal taste, and there is no such thing as personal taste anymore is a bunch of BS. It’s also a bunch of BS claiming to be the only person on the planet who can do something better than everyone else. It’s a bunch of BS to say that the sound in your shop is much better than any other shop in the world. Only mentally sick people do such claims. But I guess I am not saying anything new here. Sorry for lighting up the fire again. I am not planning to spend any more time on this topic. 

I'm not a Wilson hater but I've always thought they were conspicuous consumption for people with really bad taste.  

I avoid large midranges because they are directional at higher frequencies and are overly placement sensitive.  The 7" midrange in a 3+ way speaker is loony in my opinion.  It's bound to be a pain to get those things sounding right in a room.  I'll take the 3" dome on my ATCs or the 4" coax on my Thiels any day.  Both are also built by the company that makes the speakers rather than just bought from some other driver manufacturer.