Introduction  •  Facts at a Glance •  The Cabinet  •  The Drivers  •  Specifications

Sasha uses the identical midrange driver employed in the MAXX Series 3. That unit is a slightly simplified version of the all new driver developed as one of the core components of the Alexandria Series 2.

The creation of the newest Alexandria was spurred by a musical experience Dave Wilson had at Vienna's famed Musikverein Concert Hall. What began as an auditory epiphany--the realization that the unique and treasured sound of the Musikverein (which many consider the world's finest concert venue) was a product of the way early and late reflections combined with the direct sound from the stage--soon led to a quest to create a driver possessed of such speed and low distortion that it could reproduce the subtleties of sound Dave had heard in Vienna. A detailed account of that process can be found here.

To accomplish the task, Wilson Audio formed a strategic partnership with an independent driver manufacturer to co-design a brand new, proprietary midrange unit. Commenting on the sound of the new driver in the MAXX 3, Marc Mickelson wrote in soundstage.com: “It is more lively and animated, more detailed, textured and expressive ...while never giving the impression that the frequency response, for instance, has been contoured or goosed. This wasn’t a matter of output as much as input -- the ability to convey important musical information from recordings, once again differentiating them from each other.”