INDUSTRY UPDATE
US: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA
Brian Damkroger
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of afternoons listening to a system built around the late David Wilson’s magnum opus, the Wilson Audio WAMM Master Chronosonic loudspeaker ($685,000/pair), which Jason Victor Serinus reported on in December 2016.1 In addition to the joy of simply listening to music on such exotic speakers, the experience provided insight into just how well the Master Chronosonics would work in a relatively normal-sized listening room—in this case, one measuring 21.5 feet long by a little over 18 feet wide, with a ceiling height of a little over 9.5 feet: not small in an absolute sense, but a lot smaller than the sort of space usually associated with speakers this large.
When I say (Skywalker Ranch, Abbey Road Studios), who began by closing off an adjoining space and replacing the doors with acoustic doors. Hodas replaced the original walls with ones made from two layers of ⅝" sheetrock, with a Quiet Rock double-panel material between them. Hodas designed the room when the system had smaller, less complex speakers, but he wasn’t at all concerned about switching to the Master Chronosonics. “It’s been my experience that if a room is well designed, most any speakers will work well in it,” he said.
