Wilson Audio Sabrina
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| Ships from | Los Angeles, CA, 90077 |
| Ships to | United States and Canada |
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Wilson Audio Specialties Sabrina loudspeakers, Obsidian Black ($1,000 upgrade) in essence Metallic Black (see attached pictures) as new, factory boxed and ready to ship to you.
Comes with Factory Booklet, and factory information and 8 spiked feet & 8 protective floor protectors, in factory clean boxes (see attached pictures):See Stereophile's rave review @:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/wilson-audio-specialties-sabrina-loudspeaker
Specifications / Description: Three-way, floor standing loudspeaker. Drive-units: 1" (25.4mm) doped-silk dome tweeter, 5.7" (146.1mm) paper–pulp-cone midrange unit, 7.9" (203.2mm) paper–pulp-cone woofer. Impedance: 4 ohms nominal, 2.53 ohms minimum at 139Hz. Sensitivity: 87dB/W/m at 1kHz. Frequency response: 31Hz–21kHz, ±3dB, Room Average Response. Minimum amplification: 50Wpc.
Dimensions: 37.6" (964.8mm) H (38.9"/998mm H with spikes) by 11.9" (304.8mm) W by 15" (385.5mm) D. Weight: 93.8 lbs (42.64kg) net each; 221.5 lbs (100.7kg) shipping per pair.
Finishes: Desert Silver, Galaxy Gray, Obsidian Black, standard; Biarritz White, Titan Red, add $1000/pair.
Description and Design :
In a video on Wilson Audio's website, the Sabrina is shown next to the Alexandria XLF, highlighting the former's relatively small size. The contrast is indeed great, but that's because the Alexandria, with a height of over 70" and a per-channel weight of 655 lbs, is huge: a giant among loudspeakers. Yes, the Sabrina is much smaller, but compared to "normal" floorstanding speakers it's not that small. What helps make it look relatively small is the fact that its cabinet is slimmer at the top (about 6.5" by 6") and slopes back. But the Sabrina is exceptionally heavy for its size: each speaker weighs 93.8 lbs.
Because Wilson Audio has always believed that form should follow function, their speakers have never been the most aesthetically refined. Some have been described as looking like giant robots. Judgments of appearance are subjective, but I find the Sabrina very attractive: I think it has the most pleasing proportions of any Wilson speaker I've seen. It's available in three standard and two upgrade colors, the latter at a $1000/pair premium. (The review samples were in Titan Red, one of the upgrade colors.)
On the face of it, the Sabrina is a fairly straightforward three-way loudspeaker, with no exotic materials used in the drivers, and no powered subwoofer. As always, the success of a design depends on the implementation, and the attention paid to details—and from everything I've seen and know about Wilson Audio, attention to detail is perhaps their greatest strength. The contribution of each component is carefully evaluated, its effect on sound quality being the criterion.
The enclosures of Wilson's more expensive speakers are made of Wilson's proprietary X-Material, a phenolic composite. As a cost-saving measure, only the Sabrina's baffle and bottom panel are made of X; the rest of the cabinet is constructed of high-density fiberboard. Although HDF doesn't match the extreme nonresonant properties of X-Material, it is, by definition, more dense and hard than the commonly used medium-density fiberboard (MDF). The cabinet is assembled by hand, glued with proprietary adhesives, hand sanded, gel coated, painted with multiple layers of automotive-grade paint, then polished and buffed to the same high standard as all Wilson speakers. There are two rear-firing ports: the lower serves the woofer (which has its dedicated internal chamber), and the upper serves the midrange. The tweeter has its own rear-wave chamber, to isolate it from the other drivers' outputs. The baffle is covered with dense felt, with a cutout for each driver. The Sabrina's three drivers are variations on the ones used in other Wilson speakers. The 1" doped-silk dome tweeter is based on the Convergent Synergy tweeter first used in the Alexandria XLF. It's crossed over to a 5.7" midrange unit with a paper-composite cone, which in turn hands off to an 8" woofer, again with paper-composite cone; the crossover frequencies are in the regions of 1.6–1.9kHz and 290–350Hz, respectively. According to Daryl Wilson, son of David and the person most responsible for the Sabrina's design, "both of these crossover points are higher than we typically cross over our drivers, but work beautifully with the driver complement/configuration in the Sabrina." Each crossover is built individually to match the reference crossover within ±0.2%. The design of the Sabrina crossover uses proprietary measures to reduce distortion, with the primary design goals being bass performance and dynamic contrast. The crossover topologies and specific component choices were made with a combination of computer modeling, acoustical analysis, and listening to recordings of live, unamplified music.
Like all Wilson Audio speakers, the Sabrina does not accommodate biwiring—which, in Wilson Audio's view, would degrade the sound quality: each enclosure has only one pair of terminals.
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