Wilson Sasha V
In the late 1970s, Wilson Audio’s visionary co-founder, David A. Wilson, was refining his experiments with adjustable modular loudspeaker arrays, and how this time-centric approach to reproduced sound revealed more information in audio recordings. From these experiments was born the famous Watt/Puppy loudspeaker series. Using the latest high-tech development tools available, this legacy still informs and inspires modern loudspeaker innovation. With its own distinctive identity, Sasha V retains the essence of its Watt/Puppy and Sasha predecessors, combined with the most effective elements developed for its larger siblings. Benefiting from the enormous evolutions found in Chronosonic XVX, Alexx V, and Alexia V the new Sasha V truly sits upon the shoulders of giants.
Wilson Audio’s engineers pulled from the monumental capabilities of the flagship Chronosonic XVX, and the technology engineered specifically for Alexx V and Alexia V. By doing so Sasha V unravels your recordings in a surprisingly unexpected way for its relatively compact size.
Sasha V’s exquisite craftsmanship and thoughtful contours create a sculpted masterpiece, beautifully integrating into your curated listening space, and stands as an embodiment of industrial art. But its allure reaches far beyond just aesthetic appeal. No detail had been overlooked as the highest performing version of the Sasha line was created.
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New Drivers
Convergent Synergy Carbon Tweeter
When Wilson Audio introduced its cutting-edge rear-wave chamber in the Convergent Synergy Carbon (CSC) Tweeter, initially in Alexx V, the CSC allowed for an extended high-frequency range, remarkably smooth linearity, and superior high-frequency harmonic expression. Cohesively integrating this CSC tweeter with the midrange and woofers has resulted in an impressive improvement to Sasha V's overall sound quality.
This unique and complex carbon fiber rear-wave chamber is constructed entirely in-house at Wilson on one of their many dedicated 3D printers.
Alnico QuadraMag Midrange
Perfect blending between the tweeter and midrange is a fundamental element to accurate and realistic sound reproduction. Wilson’s R&D team successfully did just that. Wilson Audio’s beloved 7-inch AlNiCo (Aluminum - Nickel - Cobalt) QuadraMag midrange driver sings harmoniously with the CSC tweeter in Sasha V.
This world-class midrange driver is celebrated for its superb setling and effortlessly revealing greater soundstage dimensionality in the frequency band that the human ear is most sensitive to. Once only available in the Chronosonic XVX, Alexx V, and the Alexia V, the QuadraMag is now a critical part of Sasha V.
The upper array baffle includes Wilson Audio's proprietary S-Material. This baffle is composed of a unique blend of materials that form a highly stable and low-resonance coupling surface for the midrange driver, thus allowing the natural sonic beauty found in the QuadraMag to bloom.
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
Sasha 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.