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MEASUREMENTS

As I had done for the Wilson Sasha DAW, which Sasha Matson reviewed in January 2020,1 I measured one of the Sasha V speakers, serial number 0127, in Sasha’s listening room. We lifted the speaker onto a small dolly so that we could rotate it for the off-axis response measurements. The inevitable reflection of the speaker’s sound from the floor reduces the accuracy of the measurements in the midrange. All the measurements were performed without the grilles.

Wilson specifies the Sasha V’s sensitivity as 88dB/W/1m. My estimate, in different units, was 91dB(B)/2.83V/m. As the Sasha V’s nominal impedance

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