DESCRIPTION :

A STRIKING NEW VISION, FROM TOP TO BOTTOM



The original MAXX arrived with a clear design objective: create a
loudspeaker endowed with similar authority and dynamic range as
Wilson's flagship speaker, but in a less complex and demanding package.



In the intervening years, Dave Wilson and
his design team discovered ways to improve the MAXX, hence the Series
2. But they also came to realize that, as good as it is, by one
important benchmark-Propagation Delay-the existing platform was
incapable of further improvement.



Propagation Delay refers to the alignment
of all of a loudspeaker's drivers in the time domain. Imagine a
transient pulse generated by those multiple drivers: one can manipulate
the signal via both crossover and the physical alignment of the drivers
to overlay the pulse from each driver as precisely as possible.



Most speaker designers simply ignore this
measurement. But, in fact, driver misalignment as little as one-quarter
inch proves clearly audible to the listener. Time-domain distortion is
heard as grain, ringing, and compressed dynamics. It even alters the
perceived tonality of the speaker.



Achieving near perfect alignment at the
listening position requires controlling both the rotational angle of
the head (for proper dispersion) and the time alignment of the driver
(its relative distance to the listener). With Alexandria X-2, Wilson
introduced Aspherical Group Delay-heretofore the only speaker in the
world with driver modules capable of both rotational and
forward-to-back adjustment.



While Alexandria, with its three
independent upper modules, provides the sine qua non of Group Delay
precision, even WATT/Puppy, with its two-driver head, can achieve
impressive scores in time-domain alignment. Although it is far more
accurate than competing designs, the single, three-driver head of both
MAXX Series 1 and 2 runs into the laws of geometry and physics. It is
simply impossible to align three drivers in one module for ideal
Propagation
Delay.




The solution? Divide MAXX's dual midrange drivers and tweeter into two upper modules and introduce Aspherical Group Delay.



But we couldn't stop there. We also added a
slightly simplified version of the astonishing new midrange driver
developed for Alexandria Series. The midrange crossover is relocated to
the bass cabinet (a là Alexandria), and the entire enclosure is now
constructed from our proprietary X material, making the enclosure even
more sonically inert. Then we housed it all in a strikingly evolved new
cabinet design.




Is it still a MAXX? Well, yes, and...



Perhaps instead of calling it MAXX Series 3,
we should have named it MAXX Cubed.
It's still as simple to set up and place in a room as its predecessor,
but the similarities end there. Forget your expectations of what an
"update" should sound like; with MAXX Series 3, your ears are about to
enter a brave new world of musical clarity and beauty.