Audio Esoterica

WILSON AUDIO SASHA DAW LOUDSPEAKERS

How many iconic hi-fi productsbegan their life not incommercial development,but when the designers weresimply making somethingfor themselves? The storyoccurs time and time again — an enthusiast or anengineer is unhappy with available products (orunable to afford them), so builds his or her own,friends love it and get them to build some more,an audio dealer hears it and wants them for hisshop. And suddenly there’s a new company witha radically different product on the market.

The Sasha, from Wilson Audio Specialties, is a variation on this tale. It was developed from the company’s legendary WATT monitor, a speaker which the company’s founder David A. Wilson had built for himself, though he was no newcomer at the time — he had already founded Wilson Audio Specialties in 1974 with his wife Sheryl Lee and a decade later had delivered the original and revolutionary WAMM (Wilson Audio Modular Monitor), in which he applied

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