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

Instead of taking a loudspeaker designed and voiced for optimal room placement and then trying to force it into a "bookshelf" mode, Wilson's engineers did the opposite; they designed Wilson Audio Duette from the ground up as a "hostile environments" loudspeaker.

Taking Up the Challenge

The Wilson engineering team began with a concept: design a loudspeaker that could work in hostile sonic environments That didn't mean "work acceptably." The challenge was to create a product that would produce the signature Wilson sound in those settings: a wide, deep soundstage in which instruments and voices occupied discrete, three-dimensional space. Voices would sound real, tonally accurate, and coherent from top to bottom. Percussion would explode from a deep, grainfree background with believable dynamics and speed.

It quickly became apparent the task would require a completely "blank slate" approach to loudspeaker design.