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, grain-free background with believable dynamics and speed.
It quickly became apparent the task would require a completely “blank slate” approach to loudspeaker design. For example: in an optimal sonic environment, a wide dispersion driver is considered a good thing. But in order to minimize diffraction, Duette needed specially designed narrow dispersion drivers. |
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In order to preserve proper Group Delay™ in a hostile environment, it meant the separate crossover, connecting cables, and driver alignments had to account for near-boundary reflections. To fine-tune Group Delay for specific listening distances and heights, an ingenious set of spikes in three sizes magnetically attach to the bottom or sides of Duette. |
