Thor is popularly known as the Norse god of thunder. He is often depicted carrying a short-handled hammer named Mjollnir,
a symbol of his awesome power. Thunder is fitting to associate with
Wilson Audio’s new state-of-the-art subwoofer. Truth be told, our
product might give Thor an inferiority complex. Thunder, you see,
primarily occupies the frequency spectrum from 20-120 hertz. Thor’s
Hammer (the subwoofer) is capable of reproducing at full volume the
lowest pipe organ note at 16 Hz.
Subwoofers are nowadays di rigeur in home
theater systems, but their history at Wilson Audio long predates 5.1
audio. Dave Wilson’s first commercial product, the multi-cabinet WAMM®,
represented his effort to build speaker capable of reproducing the full
range of music, including those lowest organ notes.
The WAMM employed two six-foot tall bass cabinets.
Dave understood from the beginning that—when it comes to reproducing
the lowest frequencies with dynamic realism and without
distortion—there is no substitute for moving large volumes of air. The
coffee table-sized WHOW, built to complement the early WATT/Puppys, and
the seven-foot tall XS, designed for the X-1 Grand SLAMM, carried this
uncompromising approach forward. Now, ultilizing the technologies
developed for the WATCH System WATCHDog Passive Subwoofer, it's
possible to achieve the subterranean bass and impact of the gargantuan
Wilson Subwoofers of yore in a cabinet a mere five feet tall!
