Though hardly inexpensive, the sound, engineering, and build quality of the Wilson WATT/Puppy comes awfully close to some six-figure loudspeakers. The two-enclosure system, which first came to market in 1986 and is now in its ninth generation, features the WATT (Wilson Audio Tiny Tot) upper cabinet to handle frequencies from 230 Hz to 30 kHz, sitting atop a lower cabinet with dual eight-inch bass drivers that dive to 26 Hz. At 41 inches tall and 161 pounds per side, this fireplug of a speaker delivers impressive dynamic range at realistic (live music) levels and will admirably fill all but the most gigantic spaces with detailed yet unfatiguing sound. They work in smaller rooms, too, thanks in part to their relatively compact size. Calibrated adjustment hardware allows fine-tuning of the WATT’s in-room response and dispersion. With a nominal impedance of 4 ohms and sensitivity of 89 dB, high-power, high-current, solid-state amplifiers will bring out the very best in these speakers.
From the article by Robert Ross, Bryan Hood, Nicolas Stecher
