Wilson Audio Specialties Alexandria XLF loudspeaker. The Wilson Audio Specialties Alexandra XLF costs 2. So does a Ferrari. Perhaps if Wilson Audio Specialties sold as many pairs of XLFs as Ferrari sells cars, the price might drop. For now, 2. 00,0. Can a loudspeaker possibly be worth that much Add 1. I paid for my first home in 1. Today, the average American home costs around 2. Alexandra XLFs. Think no one spends that kind of money on a music systemDont kid yourself. Ota To Ot Bridge Programs'>Ota To Ot Bridge Programs. Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard Italiano Music. Many people can afford it, and many spend itthough not as many as should. We need to educate those people Anyone want to fly me to Monaco on a goodwill mission The real question is this Is the XLFs sound worth that expenseI know a pair of speakers can be worth at least 1. Ive heard the XLFs predecessor, the Alexandria X 2 Series 2, in a few systems over the past few years, including the one in the living room of recording engineer Roy Halee, driven by a pair of big Boulder amplifiers. I sat there for an enjoyable afternoon, mesmerized by, among other things, the X 2s exceptional transient and microdynamic delicacy, massive macrodynamic scale, bass precision, and top to bottom coherence. Its a sound that demands respect This speaker performs at a level only a few others can manage. I also know that a pair of speakers can be worth 6. Diet And Exercise Tracker Software. At home, I listen contentedly and with great appreciation to a pair of Wilson MAXX 3s. Not an evening of listening goes by that I dont remind myself how lucky I was to be able to buy these speakers, which are part of a system I never imagined Id be able to own. Driver Used In Wilson Speakers Alexia' title='Driver Used In Wilson Speakers Alexia' />Well, actually, I did imagine it years ago, as I lived vicariously through the writings of J. Gordon Holt, Harry Pearson, and others, when the total cost of my audio system was only a few thousand dollars Denon direct drive turntable with AC motor, Lustre GST 1 tonearm, Dynavector Ruby cartridge, Marcoff PPA 1 head amp, Hafler DH1. DH2. 00 power amp kits, and Spica TC 5. Driver Used In Wilson Speakers Alexia' title='Driver Used In Wilson Speakers Alexia' />And back then, I felt lucky to own that system. Description. While the Alexandria XLF superficially resembles its predecessor, the Alexandria X 2 Series 2 1. XLF does not replace the X 2, which will continue to be available. The XLF is larger, and at 6. X 2 it also incorporates numerous changes and refinements. The volume of the XLFs bass enclosure is 1. X 2s. The cabinet walls are thicker, and inside, a newly developed bracing geometry better deals with the XLFs greater production of low frequency energy. The bass drive units, though, are the same as in the X 2 1. Focal. The cones are of Focals proprietary W material two layers of woven glass tissue separated by and bonded to a core of aeronautical foam, the mass of which can be precisely varied to match the needs of the particular driver design. The W material is ultra stiff, ultra lightweight, and said to be extremely low in coloration. Its also 1. 0 times more expensive to make than the high quality paper Focal uses for its less expensive subwoofer cones, including the ones used in the MAXX 3. A few years ago, at Focals facility in St. Etienne, France, I watched W cones being made by developmentally challenged people, who had been taught to operate the machines as part of a government program to create meaningful employment for them. The Alexandria XLF features Wilsons unique, room optimizing, Cross Load Firing XLF porting system. With this latest refinement in owner designer Dave Wilsons attempt to produce speakers that can be optimized to work well in a wide variety of rooms, you can easily switch between front and rear porting by unscrewing a few bolts and swapping the locations of some parts. Alexia Series 2A Classic Reborn How do you update a classic By almost any measure, the Alexia has been one of Wilsons most successful products. DISCLAIMER. This story is a work of fantasy. The author makes no assertion that any person named in this story has ever, or would ever, behave in the manner described. JasonVTL-600.jpg' alt='Driver Used In Wilson Speakers Alexia' title='Driver Used In Wilson Speakers Alexia' />The Alexandria series rigid wings that bracket the midrange and tweeter modules, made of cross braced sections of Wilsons X material a proprietary phenolic composite, has been substantially strengthened and thickened. Wilsons composite S material was first used in the Sasha WP, which replaced the WATTPuppy. RnMRxbHB3IZR.jpg' alt='Driver Used In Wilson Speakers Alexia' title='Driver Used In Wilson Speakers Alexia' />Here, in combination with the X material, it replaces the M4 material used in the Alexandria X 2s midrange baffle, and is claimed to audibly and measurably reduce midrange noise and coloration. Wilsons strategy has long been one of relatively large midrange drivers that cover almost the entire midrange without being interrupted by the crossover. However, to avoid high frequency beaming, this necessitates the two 7 carbon fiberpaper cone midrange units handing off to the tweeter at the unusually low frequency of about 1k. Hz. This is why one of the most significant upgrades in the XLF is its new Convergent Synergy silk dome tweeter, made for Wilson by Scan Speak. This replaces the inverted titanium dome used in the X 2 and is built to Wilsons specifications by Focal, variations of which have long been used throughout much of the Wilson line. While the new tweeter superficially resembles versions used by other manufacturers, Wilsons specific requirements took three years of development to achieve the high power handling, low distortion, and wide bandwidth required by Wilsons crossover strategyall of which the inverted titanium dome had successfully achieved. The new silk dome meets the goals of low distortion and high power handling while surpassing the titanium domes overall linearity and HF extension. Another silk dome, a variant of the Convergent Synergy, acts as a supertweeter and fires to the rear from the top of the upper midrange module. Living like the 9. Had Wilson Audio Specialties been looking for a space in which to demonstrate the efficacy of Dave Wilsons group delay technology, in particular the Aspherical Group Delay adjustability see below implemented in the Alexandria X 2 and the new Alexandria XLF, they couldnt have found one more challenging than my listening room, which measures only 1. The room itself is not the challenge. In fact, its acoustics have been measured and found to be reasonably linear, and particularly excellent in terms of decay, which one acoustician described as ideal, thanks to my walls of LPs. Even when not being played, vinyl sounds good. Nor was the challenge one of shoehorning into a ground floor room two speakers, each one 5 1. Like all of Wilsons large speakers, the XLFs ship in pieces, the massive woofer cabinets rolling out of their crates on casters. The total shipping weight per pair is just under a ton 1. And lets leave aside for the moment the not insignificant problem of taming the combined output of two enormous woofer boxes placed just a few feet from the rooms corners. The seemingly insoluble dilemma was how to create a coherent soundfield from two tall stacks of drivers sitting just 9. And yet, as unlikely as it seemed, particularly to me, Wilsons Peter Mc. Grath was convinced that the XLFs would, in my room, work as well as if not better than the MAXX 3s. But then, Id been convinced the MAXX 2s and 3s wouldnt work here, and they didthe 3s better than the 2s, because of the 3s increased driver adjustability. Setup. An audiophile friend helped me unbox the Alexandria XLFs many crates, remarking as we went on Wilsons fanatical attention to detail and the precise fitnfinish of all partseven the ones owners are unlikely to ever see once the speaker is assembled.