Hi Everyone,
So we all know that Wilson Audio makes some of the best speakers in world but I have a feeling that the new Sasha DAW holds quite a special place in the Wilson Audio speaker lineup bearing in mind that the initials DAW stand for David Andrew Wilson, the founder of Wilson Audio who sadly passed away last year, thankfully Wilson Audio’s speaker design has been left in the very capable hands of Dave’s son Daryl Wilson so I am really pleased to have one of the first pairs of these new speakers on demo in the UK.
I don’t know what to say really as these really are a very special speaker, the word that keeps coming to mind is ‘Ethereal’. We had the previous Sasha 2 on demo which I knew well as I spent a lot of my time listening to them so I can’t help but compare and for me the main difference in this totally re-engineered speaker is in the mid range, it is so open with a real air of space and openness that it really is quite captivating, you really feel you are hearing every little thing, they really hold nothing back but without becoming sterile, there is still a naturalness to the presentation.
It goes without saying that the DAW bass is equally as good, it is tight, fast, resolved but with real depth and solidity when called upon, I am finding it quite hard to write this as words just don’t do these speakers justice, you have to be sat in front of them to appreciate what they can do, what really blows my mind is that these are at the more sensible price of the Wilson speaker hierarchy but you just can’t imagine things getting much better, saying that I was extremely lucky to visit Dave Wilson’s house in 2017 to hear the utterly incredible WAMM and I can honestly say that was the best HiFi experience of my life, I just need to win the Euro Lottery to get a pair for myself, but until that happens I will be more than happy with the new SASHA DAW’s.
I should say that the colour we went for, the same as our previous Sasha’s, has become know and ‘Wendy Blue’ as Wendy chose it to match a Farrow and Ball paint she likes and as you can see from the pictures the way it changes colour in different lights is quite incredible, it really is a chameleon speaker, she went with adding an extra gold and silver flake to the paint which really helps the speaker pop and come alive in sunlight, it’s a great colour.
Open Day!
A date for your diary, we will be holding a Wilson Audio Open day on March 23rd so please put that in your diary and I will have more news shortly.
Time Lapse Un-Boxing Videoss!
So this is something a little different we are trying, this is the first time we have put it into action, Ady who is in the video and is helping us out, a lot of you will already know him, came up with the idea, have to say I really like it and is something we will do more often I think, anyway hope you like it.
Needless to say if you ever fancy coming in for a listen to the new Sasha DAW please feel free to get in touch to make an appointment, please find a link to the Wilson Audio range on our website and some picture below –
https://hifilounge.co.uk/wilson-audio
Next job is to get them off the wheels and onto their spikes but before then I want to wheel them into the ‘Highend Room’ to try on the Audio Research Reference 160M Mono amps with the dCS Rossin as I heard the DAW’s on a very similar system at the Windsor show last year and it really was a magical combination so until I find their final resting place they can stay on their wheels as at 107KG’s each they are certainly not the easiest speaker to move around.
Regards,
Paul.
