How can Wilson Audio speakers sound that good if they are using OEM drivers?

Out of phase junk

maybe we need out of phase spell check....

The ScanSpeak Drivers used in most Wilson Speakers are excellent drivers - they could be somewhat customized too specifications set forth by Wilson.  The 4" midrange driver used in the new Wamm is a beyond excellent midrange driver with a foam surround and a paper cone.

In speaker design its always about how well one makes the drivers, cabinet and the all important crossover design work as a whole.

Here is an example of a 40 year old woofer design integrated with a very recent Midrange/Tweeter Driver on a waveguide - this thing will run circles around any conventional speaker using a 1" dome - what ever its made from, and yes I made it :-)

http://pbnaudio.com/speakers/m2-5-loudspeaker


Good Listening

Peter

 

I understand you all. And agree with you. I’m just confused about some companies not pushing boundaries on drivers too.
One thing is to ask another company to develop a driver with a spec. Another is to R&D on drivers, as I understand Wilson Audio does with the their speakers enclosures. Wilson do a kind of crazy R&D with the materials they use on their speaker enclosures. And I love that. But what if they did this also with their drivers?

There seems to be some assumption that a material is just a material regardless of it's manufacture. Correctly manufactured paper has a very high speed of sound while still achieving good damping and stiffness. Wilson used to use a bunch of Focal drivers which are about as far as you can get from paper. Those woven B&W drivers have great damping, but aren't very stiff and they have a rather slow speed of sound. Carbon fiber drivers are extremely stiff and controlling their ringing take carefully consideration. I'm not surprised to see Focal putting flax cones in $10,000 speakers. They have some of the best characteristics of paper and they're stiffer and lighter. Again, old school organic cellulose fibers, just manufactured better. 

OP:
Have you listened to any Wilson speakers? If so, please elaborate.