Wilson Audio's Chronosonic XVX vs. Alexia V | Robert Harley Previews

I’m an unfortunate non-owner of that speaker:)
Good stuff

We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams

Both are impressive. What is the size of this room?

I got a chance to hear them at Paragon Sight and Sound Ann Arbor Michigan ...also met Daryl Wilson there.They sound FANTASTIC

Looking forward to the review!

Cool, too much for my pocket. Good review.

Sandals and socks Robert? Surely not. It's a visual medium and adjustments have to be made.... Even by you.

Nice xvx 😂

12 min 18s ..Alacrity means Cheerful willingness; eagerness. / Liveliness; briskness; sprightliness.

Full range speakers like these Wilsons that go down into the 20's must present challenges both to the designers AND end users because IMHO, the best place in the listing room for your mids and highs may not NECESSARILY be the ideal place for deep bass which is why I'm a fan of PROPERLY setting up 2 very high quality subs in "stereo" to blend really well with your "smaller" speakers that may "only" reach down into the 40's or 30's - albeit this set up may not be able to scale in volume in quite the same way these huge full range Wilson speakers might do in a large room, I'd bet they'd give the Wilsons a run for their money in smaller to mid size rooms. An example might be a pair of Dynaudio Heritage Specials or Confidence 20 stand-mount speakers in tandem with 2 Dynaudio Sub 6 subwoofers - quality in spades and NOT cheap by any means but way WAY less expensive than an Alexia V and a wee FRACTION of the XVX's !! Happy listing everyone !!

Its worth about 5k, just off the self parts

iv'e been a sub to Stereophile mag for 10 years, i need to receive Absolute sound again. Thanks for your vids ☺

Socks and sandals😂

I have worked in both hifi and pro audio, the overly precious description of basic engineering, I find a little offputting. The theories of speaker placement and diffraction are well known. This is nothing new, and yes, trying to voice speaker can take much time with crossover design. I think this is the type of thing that puts people off from high end audio. I have heard many Wilson audio products over the years and they sound good as many other companies also provide sonic competency.

Alexia V costs even more than a BMW X5!

SAW YOUR MOFI YES “FRAGILE” ALBUM IN THE BACKGROUND. PROBABLY ONE OF MOFI’s BEST. AFTER THAT JD CAN GO FUCK HIMSELF…
“BATTER UP”

Wilson ripped off the use of the felt on the baffles from Dunlavy and refuse to acknowledge it that's why it never gets a mention. That really is a poor show. And it doesn't make sense to do a time alignment on a non minimum phase crossover. Why do they bother ?? :(

What a load of snake oil BS in the opening advert for interconnects!!!😡

I’m calling this nonsense out and feel duty bound to do just that as a reputable audio design engineer. It’s claims like that which tar the rest of the industry with the same snake oil tar brush. If you’re going to make such claims then back them up with measurement proving that this design is AUDIBLY better than any conventional IC, and AUDIBLY more faithful to the source.signal. Lets see the source used to send a signal to a ‘scope snd compare the waveform for distortion using a conventional IC compared to the one advertised. If not, why make such claims?

Wilson speakers are well engineered but insanely expensive and not aesthetically pleasing. They put me in mind of steam punk design. I don’t much care for their new skeleton style at all, messy. Great sounding no doubt.

For elegance I prefer what Verity Audio are producing.

Box speakers, so innovative 😅

Happy TAS subscriber, happy Sasha DAW owner, I wish the Italian import recharges were not so outrageous to allow me to reach the next level... Great and gracious video though (including socks), thanks Robert and Peter!

Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing. Wilson are doing a great job with their recent products.

Man... Robert sure looks like the audio nerd of all audio nerds... the shoes are the kicker..

The whole Wilson price range is "way" out of my budget, however, I'D LOVE to hear these, also I'm sure all their other speakers are wonderful as well.

They look that terrible - wether they sound good of not: I don’t want them ever!!!

"Coherent time alignment?" Doesn't RH know that that's not possible in such a speaker??

Love to know what the V material magic actually is. I see they use some cable risers but the cable is allowed to touch the floor at the midpoint. Is this non-consequential or an oversight?

Also love that my $3,300 speakers employ the same "Magical" 7" midrange driver that Wilson uses. By Scanspeak. Of course the Wilson version is built to Wilsons specs as opposed to stock "crappy" specs scan speak offers. haha

The Overpriced Sound. Huzzah!

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree can be said about Darryl and David Wilson

Chronosonic XVX looks like the legs of Megatron............

Thumbs down for the awful and waaay tooo long advert for Audioquest!!

Fantastic guy and fantastic speakers! Thanks for the great video mate!

$349,000 why?

Time alignment? When we listen to live music, do the musicians time align the sound to the audience? Or time alignment is used to adjust to different rooms?

After looking at the XVX this Alexia looks so cheap! Lol

A comment about the Alexx V. I've heard from a prominent reviewer that he and other experts consider the Alexx V to be the best Wilson speaker currently.

Peter I think you should talk “HOW EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE THEY ARE” too🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

No doubt that Wilson Audio perhaps the best of the best speaker manufacturing company in the whole world 👏

Choose between a luxury sports sedan or these speakers. Tough call.

Looks like that tweeter is calibrated for the standing position. Or is it just that bright and you needed to point it away from the seated position?

You would be afraid to say otherwise.

What a bunch of BS. You have to be out of your mind to buy these insanely overpriced hogwash

Alexia looks like a trash receptacle

90db is NOT efficient speaker!
What the fuck this guy is talking about….