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MEASUREMENTS

ecause of the Wilson Sasha DAW’s bulk and weight—as well as the fact that Sasha Matson’s listening room is on the second floor of his upstate New York home—I drove my test gear the 230 miles from my Brooklyn home to measure the speakers in situ. (I also wanted to hear the Wilson speakers driven by his McIntosh MC462 amplifier, which had impressed me when I measured it for our May 2019 issue.) As always, I used DRA Labs’ MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the Sasha DAW’s frequency response in the farfield and an Earthworks QTC-40 mike for the nearfield responses. When testing a loudspeaker, I

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