Wilson Audio WAMM Master Chronosonic - 展樂音響設計中心 Open Music Audio Center

You, noble Art, in how many grey hours, when life’s mad tumult wraps around me, have you kindled my heart to warm love, have you transported me into a better world, transported into a better world!” To my mind, this is what Dave Wilson has accomplished with the WAMM Master Chronosonic.

－ Jacob Heilbrunn , The Absolute Sound

Magnum Opus

In this video, Dave Wilson speaks about his early research on the time domain, and how this poorly understood phenomenon affects the way we hear music. Dave also reveals his inspiration for designing loudspeakers—the passion that has been central to his designs during a career spanning more than thirty-five years. Please celebrate with us this small homage of Dave’s remarkable life work, which, as it relates to loudspeakers, now culminates in his Magnum Opus, the WAMM Master Chronosonic.

This was a milestone listening experience, one of those events when you can hear the paradigm shifting. Interestingly, although the new WAMM is going to raise the price of Wilson’s flagship model substantially, it will still be short of being the most expensive speaker in the world. But then, with performance like this, expense is secondary.

－ Roy Gregory, The Audio Beat

It’s About Time

This video previews the long awaited WAMM, Master Chronosonic™, Dave Wilson’s Magnum Opus. Nearly five years of research, development, and thought have gone into the new WAMM. Now, as a preface to its launch in a few months, we offer up this small homage to Dave, a visionary who has indelibly changed the way we all think about music and its reproduction.

Drivers

Daryl Wilson and Wilson’s team of engineers recently concluded another round of research and development into tweeter technology.
Wilson’s MTM configurations, which feature time-domain adjustability, have always been far more sophisticated
Unlike the original WAMM, which required a subwoofer to cover the bottom octaves, the Master Chronosonic is a true full-range design.

Enclosure Materials

Most loudspeaker manufacturers are content with building enclosures from medium-density fiberboard—a material originally used in the construction of tract-home sub floors. In contrast, Wilson has spent the last several decades researching and developing cutting-edge composites.

WAMM Master Subsonic

From its inception, the WAMM Master Chronosonic was designed to cover the entire audible spectral bandwidth with an unprecedented time-domain fidelity, ultra-low distortion, and exceptionally well controlled enclosure resonance. It is a laboratory grade instrument on the one hand and an unalloyed conduit to a numinous connection to music on the other.

The Master Chronosonic is a full range loudspeaker, capable of reproducing the bottom octaves of music with extreme speed and authority, but Wilson’s design team also recognizes the advantages presented by fully active bass management and a dedicated subwoofer.

While most manufacturers of subwoofers attempt to bend the immutable laws of physics with undersized enclosures and drivers, Wilson’s approach to the bottom octave is uncompromising and pure. The WATCH Dog and the state-of-the-art Thor’s Hammer are designed to reproduce the region between 10 and 40hz without the aid of distortion-producing equalization or other Band-Aids to poor or compromised designs.

The WAMM Master Subsonic subwoofer builds on the strengths of the Thor’s Hammer. The Subsonic employs three dual-spider woofers in an enclosure tuned to reproduce the infra-sonic range below 10 Hz, and, at the same time, seamlessly and coherently mesh with the Master Chronosonic in the lower mid-bass region. Extreme transient speed is not a intuitive characteristic associated with subs; the Subsonic was designed to cover the bottom octaves at the same level of transient fidelity that characterizes the WAMM Master Chronosonic.

Technical Specifications

Drivers

Woofers: One – 10.5 inches (26.67 cm)

One – 12.5 inches (31.75 cm)

Upper Midrange: Two – 4 inch (10.16 cm)

Lower Midrange: Two – 7 inch (17.78 cm)

Main Tweeter: One – 1 inch silk dome (2.54 cm)

Rear-Firing Tweeter: One – 1 inch silk dome (2.54 cm)

Enclosures & Materials

Woofer: XLF port, adjustable rear or front firing

Midranges: Bottom vent, X-material, S-material baffle

Tweeter: Sealed X-Material

Gantry: Aerospace Aluminum, W-Material Module Interface, X-Material damping

Measurements

Sensitivity: 93.5 dB @ 1W @ 1 meter @1 kHz

Nominal Impedance: 3 ohms / minimum 1.77 ohms @ 310 Hz

Minimum Amplifier Power: 100 watts per channel

Dimensions

Height: 84.375 inches (214.31 cm) w/o spikes

Width: 21 inches (53.34 cm)

Depth: 37.375 inches (94.93 cm)

System Weight Per Channel: 900 lbs (408.23 kg)

Total System Shipping Weight (approx.): 2620 lbs (1188.41 kg)

WAMM Master Subsonic - Drivers & Measurements

Enclosure Type: Front Ported

Woofers: Three—12 inch Dual Spider (30.48 cm)

Frequency Response: 10 to 150 Hz. +0, – 3dB Room Average Response [RAR]

Nominal Impedance: 4 ohms

Sensitivity: 87 dB @ 1 watt (2.83v at one meter)

WAMM Master Subsonic - Dimensions

Height: 65 1/16 inches (165.25 cm) with spike

Depth: 27 3/16 inches (69.09 cm)

Width: 18 1/16 inches (45.87 cm)

Weight: 515 lbs (233.6 Kg)

Total Shipping Weight (approx): 695 lbs (315.3 kg)

2023 Price / 價格

Standard: $875,000

Upgrade: $893,000

Custom: $917,000

Premium: $936,000

WAMM Master Chronosonic

2022-11-30

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