Wilson Alexx V
When it came time to upgrade the Alexx, Daryl Wilson wanted to be sensitive to where research and development had brought Wilson Audio over the past five years. The decision was made that a fresh look at the Alexx was in order, so Wilson Audio’s research & development team approached the Alexx V as it if were an all-new loudspeaker. They took elements that clearly worked in the original design and began to apply the myriad of technologies generated by Wilson’s R&D since the advent of the original Alexx. Following major launches of the WAMM Master Chronosonic, Chronosonic XVX, Sasha DAW, and SabrinaX, Alexx V joins a very special family of ground-breaking loudspeakers designed and handcrafted especially for music lovers and audiophiles alike.
Alexx V is an extraordinarily adaptable design. Carrying over elements from its larger siblings, such as the XLF reversible woofer port and independently adjustable modules, allows this system to be elegantly tailored to your listening room. These tools built into the DNA of Alexx V allow for greater ease of installation into a wider variety of listening spaces, thus permitting the listener to truly experience the depth and ability of this system.
The open architecture gantry first launched with WAMM Master Chronosonic, followed by Chronosonic XVX, has now found a home with Alexx V. Not only does this benefit the overall appearance of the loudspeaker, but critically, it also enhances the overall rigidity of the entire upper module section and minimizes pressure trapped behind the enclosures, resulting in greater fidelity.
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New Drivers
MTM Design Geometry
The Midrange – Tweeter – Midrange (MTM) design geometry of the original Alexx has been refined such that the time-alignment accuracy of Alexx V is much closer to the XVX, giving this system the ability to recreate micro-detail one would expect from a much larger system. Different sized lower and upper midrange drivers allow for a more careful tuning of the frequency band. The incredibly fast and resolving 5.75” mid-woofer used in the original Alexx, TuneTot, and SabrinaX, carries over for Alexx V. This pairs with Wilson’s newest 7” midrange Alnico (Aluminum, Nickel, Cobalt) QuadraMag design, originally developed for XVX Chronosonic, which has a warmth, beauty, and texture that brings to life all the elements in your favorite recordings.
Convergent Synergy Carbon Tweeter
The Alexx V features an entirely new Convergent Synergy Carbon tweeter, which builds upon a modified version of the previous Convergent Synergy motor. The new tweeters use an innovative 3D-printed carbon fiber rear-wave chambers, which are completely manufactured in-house at Wilson. These latest tweeters offers far greater and more linear high frequency extension while providing unprecedented ambient retrieval and superior harmonic detail.
Woofers
Wilson originally developed the 10.5” and 12.5” woofers in conjunction with the WAMM Master Chronosonic. These state-of-the-art bass drivers incorporate Wilson Audio’s latest thinking into accurate and musical low frequency reproduction. Carefully optimizing the Alexx V enclosure, the internal volume has dramatically increased to have almost the same internal woofer volume as the Chronosonic XVX, which allows for much deeper low frequency reproduction, faster transient settling, and an overall increase in bass resolution.
New Floor Spikes
The Mechanics
Loudspeakers interact with their environment in two primary ways. The first is the (desirable) sound pressure created from the vibration of the drivers; it is what music lovers hope to experience in its most powerful, engagingly elegant, and intimately emotion ways. The second way is through the (unwanted) vibrations which are directed both from the enclosure into the floor through the speaker’s footers, and also any room vibrations transmitting from the floor into the enclosure. Ideally, the speaker is both “coupled” to the floor, but also “isolated” from it. To solve this problem, Wilson‘s R&D team created the new Acoustic Diode system .
The Science
Energy from the enclosure migrates into the V-Material where it is faced with the effective damping properties of this efficient material. The mass of the loudspeaker concentrated onto the very small ends of the spike tips results in significant pressure that prevents detrimental vibrations from traveling upward into the footer. Those vibrations that do travel up the spike are absorbed by the mass of the Acoustic Diode and have to travel through the V-Material to have a chance to influence the enclosure. Keeping the spike and threaded post separate prevent a direct path for vibrations to travel, or interplay, and are therefore dissipated and absorbed in either the V-Material or the footer housing. This distinctive design, combined with advanced vibration-mitigating materials, provides the best of both worlds; a solid base from which the drivers can launch as well as preventing the transmission of energy from the floor to the loudspeakers.
Separation in the Assembly
A machined V-Material insert is inset into the robust austenitic stainless-steel diode housing. A stainless-steel post is then threaded into this exclusive V-Material, never touching the diode component. On the bottom of the diode, a spike is threaded into the diode housing, but it does not couple with the V-Material insert. Once the Acoustic Diodes are installed into the loudspeaker, only the V-Material section of the diode comes in contact with the bottom of the loudspeaker.
New Materials
V for Vibration Control
Alexx V features unique and exotic materials that have been tested, developed, and refined exclusively for Wilson Audio over the course of roughly fifty years. Methodically utilizing mixed-materials, in pursuit of obtaining the highest performance, has long been a fundamental aspect to each Wilson loudspeaker.
A variety of carefully chosen materials have been implemented in this distilled design. The latest version of X-Material, extremely monotonic and damped in its response, is found throughout the woofer, gantry, and upper modules. S-Material is tightly coupled to each midrange and provides a neutral and natural surface from which music can launch. First used in the Chronosonic XVX, Wilson’s latest and most remarkable sound-vortex, V-Material, is strategically nested into interface locations for superior vibration control. V-Material behaves like a vibration absorber and has been put in the structure between the woofer module and the gantry. V-Material can also be found in their new, carefully engineered, and high performing Acoustic Diode spike system. X, S, and V-Material, combined with carbon fiber, austenitic stainless steel, and aerospace grade aluminum, are aesthetically and judiciously blended to make cutting-edge audio and industrial art.