The engineering team’s goal with Wilson Audio Duette was to create a product that would produce the signature Wilson sound in hostile environments.

Hostile Environments

Music and home theater are increasingly part of contemporary lifestyles. Until now, the visually pleasing architectural integration of sound into our home environments has meant accepting serious sonic compromises. Placing a loudspeaker on the wall, for example, creates back reflections that destroy the time domain purity and timbral accuracy of the signal. Soundstage cues are lost and the frequency response is skewed.

If the loudspeaker is mounted in a custom cabinet or sits on a bookshelf, diffraction comes into play. Early reflections from the adjacent surfaces compromise high frequencies, again wreaking havoc in the time domain and introducing grain and hash. Once again, the soundstage collapses into a flat, two-dimensional image.