Heard these through an all levinson set up with the levinson333 amp, good soundstage depth but from the music I heard (not alot since I didn't look rich so the salesman kicked me out :) the imaging and depth stayed the same on all the recordings....A smidgen bright but what bothered me was the big midbass humpand lack of rhythmn...just didn't do the music justice....Not sure if this was to to the equipment used or the room so I will give it the benefit of the doubt...for now at least. Unimpressive.

These speakers have to be one of the most over-rated speakersin the audiophile kingdom. They tend toward excessive brightness,
and have poorly articulated bass. They image reasonably well,
though there are systems which are superior. Given their extravagant
price, they remain a poor value.

I have but two quarrels with the Puppies. (1) In each room (three) in which I have heard them they have exhibited the bass hump referred to by others. (2) The totally RIDICULOUS manner in which many dealers ( I assume on the advice of Wilson) insist on demonstrating the speaker. That is: so wide apart as to be laughable. In one demo there was NO center at all because the speakers were so far apart. Once brought into a rule of 1/4's configuration, they sounded excellent with the exception of the bass hump. Frankly, it was this bass anomaly that kept me from purchasing them. Fix that, and set them up "normally", I would give them 5 speakers. As presently constituted.....

The Watt/Puppies were set up with Levinson electronics at Audio Advice in Raleigh to demonstrate analog and digital front ends. I thought the whole system was better than any I'd ever heard, from LP or CD, except for the bass. At this price, in my opinion, there is no excuse for compromising deep bass at normal listening levels.

First, count me more in the music lover category.
Now I have listened to Watt/Puupies several times, reverse-engineered the Series III Units and build myself a pretty good set of copys. Id say closer to the System V (if very narrowly) as the WITT or CUBB.
First all the critisim is extremly valid. The price is an insult to common sense. Positioning is extremly critical.

Beyound that, having hear both decent setups (including mine) and bad ones, sort these Speakers out and you forget about Speakers. They got an wafull lot of the Quad effect. You forget about fiddeling about and enjoy the music. Getting there is a torterous road however. Given that I'm moving next week I dread having to sort out the positioning again.

Beyound the initial critisms, this is a Speaker with which can live indefinitly. Yup, I think that this is the last pair of Speakers I ever build.

18k or so is a lot of money for any piece of Audio Equipment, but if you have it and some patience it is money well spend as soon as you sorted worldwide Starvation, injustice and all the other little problems out first.

I rate 5 Stars for the Product and a very very low zero Stars for a world in which such a product can exist while over halve the people in this world starve.

Mea Culpa of course too for copying them.

Have a used pair of these speakers, paid about 8 grands for them. They sound , I don't know how others say but for me, a wee bit too harsh ,and the bass is too dark and punchy but the midrange is excellent, especially female vocal. I bought I thought I had a good deal on these speakers( who am I kidding 8 grands for used speakers) and few days later I had a chance to audition Avalon Avatar driven by the same amp I use( Levinson 333), just one thing to say here Avalon kills my babies in any aspect. I'm dying to sell them to buy Avalon now( there're lots of way to throw away money until you get the speakers you looking for). Some say that it may results from my room since these babies need a extremely thourough placement but hey I just spent 8 grands, what do I have to loose more a new house! to get these speakers sound right. But after all, it comes down to my stupidity because I bought them before I even listened to them( saving nearly half of new pair blinded me from any conventional audio shopping precaution). I didn't say these speakers were all bad but financially speaking I could have spent a lot less with same performance.

The is little in quality between the a number of speakers in the price range of the Wilson WATT/Puppy 5.1; having auditioned most, including the new Totems, the Wilsons remain conststently superior.