Saturday, 01 February 1997
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Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
Introduction
The
Wilson WATT Puppy is a truly classic loudspeaker design. Developed in
the mid 1980s by David Wilson as professional location monitors, Wilson
WATT Puppies have become the high end industry’s standard for music,
theater and 35 millimeter film playback.
The elements
that make the WATT Puppy so special are complicated. First off, the
sound is phenomenal. "Punchy," "crisp" and "extremely dynamic" just
start to describe the event of listening to music or film soundtracks
through WATT Puppies. The size, with its slender footprint, makes the
speaker welcome in living rooms as well as mastering labs. Exotic paint
and wood finishes give you the opportunity to either have your WATT
Puppies blend into your décor, as they do in my room with my Asian
Pearl paint job, or you can choose to have them be the focal point of
your room with, say, a Lamborghini Fly Yellow finish.
The WATT Puppy System is a two-piece ...