Of the small number of times I have been totally swept away by listening to recorded music, a significant proportion have involved loudspeakers from Wilson Audio Specialties. It was my experience of their X-1/Grand SLAMM in the listening rooms of reviewer Martin Colloms, then-retailer Peter McGrath, designer Dan D'Agostino of Krell, and manufacturer Madrigal Audio Labs, that led me to name it my "Editor's Choice" for 1995 and join my vote with those of the <I>Stereophile</I> scribes to make it the magazine's "Loudspeaker of the Year." I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/470/">my December 2001 "As We See It"</A> about how a cross-country road trip had begun with a listen to the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/465/">Cantus CD</A> on the Wilson WAMMs in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//interviews/478/">their designer's</A> Utah listening room. And, as I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/557/">my April column</A>, auditioning Peter McGrath's 24-bit <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/461/">Nagra-D</A&gt; master tapes on Wilson MAXXes in the Halcro room was, for me, the highlight of the 2002 CES.

Of the small number of times I have been totally swept away by listening to recorded music, a significant proportion have involved loudspeakers from Wilson Audio Specialties. It was my experience of their X-1/Grand SLAMM in the listening rooms of reviewer Martin Colloms, then-retailer Peter McGrath, designer Dan D'Agostino of Krell, and manufacturer Madrigal Audio Labs, that led me to name it my "Editor's Choice" for 1995 and join my vote with those of the <I>Stereophile</I> scribes to make it the magazine's "Loudspeaker of the Year." I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/470/">my December 2001 "As We See It"</A> about how a cross-country road trip had begun with a listen to the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/465/">Cantus CD</A> on the Wilson WAMMs in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//interviews/478/">their designer's</A> Utah listening room. And, as I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/557/">my April column</A>, auditioning Peter McGrath's 24-bit <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/461/">Nagra-D</A&gt; master tapes on Wilson MAXXes in the Halcro room was, for me, the highlight of the 2002 CES.

Of the small number of times I have been totally swept away by listening to recorded music, a significant proportion have involved loudspeakers from Wilson Audio Specialties. It was my experience of their X-1/Grand SLAMM in the listening rooms of reviewer Martin Colloms, then-retailer Peter McGrath, designer Dan D'Agostino of Krell, and manufacturer Madrigal Audio Labs, that led me to name it my "Editor's Choice" for 1995 and join my vote with those of the <I>Stereophile</I> scribes to make it the magazine's "Loudspeaker of the Year." I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/470/">my December 2001 "As We See It"</A> about how a cross-country road trip had begun with a listen to the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/465/">Cantus CD</A> on the Wilson WAMMs in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//interviews/478/">their designer's</A> Utah listening room. And, as I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/557/">my April column</A>, auditioning Peter McGrath's 24-bit <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/461/">Nagra-D</A&gt; master tapes on Wilson MAXXes in the Halcro room was, for me, the highlight of the 2002 CES.

Of the small number of times I have been totally swept away by listening to recorded music, a significant proportion have involved loudspeakers from Wilson Audio Specialties. It was my experience of their X-1/Grand SLAMM in the listening rooms of reviewer Martin Colloms, then-retailer Peter McGrath, designer Dan D'Agostino of Krell, and manufacturer Madrigal Audio Labs, that led me to name it my "Editor's Choice" for 1995 and join my vote with those of the <I>Stereophile</I> scribes to make it the magazine's "Loudspeaker of the Year." I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/470/">my December 2001 "As We See It"</A> about how a cross-country road trip had begun with a listen to the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/465/">Cantus CD</A> on the Wilson WAMMs in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//interviews/478/">their designer's</A> Utah listening room. And, as I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/557/">my April column</A>, auditioning Peter McGrath's 24-bit <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/461/">Nagra-D</A&gt; master tapes on Wilson MAXXes in the Halcro room was, for me, the highlight of the 2002 CES.

Of the small number of times I have been totally swept away by listening to recorded music, a significant proportion have involved loudspeakers from Wilson Audio Specialties. It was my experience of their X-1/Grand SLAMM in the listening rooms of reviewer Martin Colloms, then-retailer Peter McGrath, designer Dan D'Agostino of Krell, and manufacturer Madrigal Audio Labs, that led me to name it my "Editor's Choice" for 1995 and join my vote with those of the <I>Stereophile</I> scribes to make it the magazine's "Loudspeaker of the Year." I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/470/">my December 2001 "As We See It"</A> about how a cross-country road trip had begun with a listen to the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/465/">Cantus CD</A> on the Wilson WAMMs in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//interviews/478/">their designer's</A> Utah listening room. And, as I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/557/">my April column</A>, auditioning Peter McGrath's 24-bit <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/461/">Nagra-D</A&gt; master tapes on Wilson MAXXes in the Halcro room was, for me, the highlight of the 2002 CES.

Of the small number of times I have been totally swept away by listening to recorded music, a significant proportion have involved loudspeakers from Wilson Audio Specialties. It was my experience of their X-1/Grand SLAMM in the listening rooms of reviewer Martin Colloms, then-retailer Peter McGrath, designer Dan D'Agostino of Krell, and manufacturer Madrigal Audio Labs, that led me to name it my "Editor's Choice" for 1995 and join my vote with those of the <I>Stereophile</I> scribes to make it the magazine's "Loudspeaker of the Year." I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/470/">my December 2001 "As We See It"</A> about how a cross-country road trip had begun with a listen to the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/465/">Cantus CD</A> on the Wilson WAMMs in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//interviews/478/">their designer's</A> Utah listening room. And, as I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/557/">my April column</A>, auditioning Peter McGrath's 24-bit <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/461/">Nagra-D</A&gt; master tapes on Wilson MAXXes in the Halcro room was, for me, the highlight of the 2002 CES.

Of the small number of times I have been totally swept away by listening to recorded music, a significant proportion have involved loudspeakers from Wilson Audio Specialties. It was my experience of their X-1/Grand SLAMM in the listening rooms of reviewer Martin Colloms, then-retailer Peter McGrath, designer Dan D'Agostino of Krell, and manufacturer Madrigal Audio Labs, that led me to name it my "Editor's Choice" for 1995 and join my vote with those of the <I>Stereophile</I> scribes to make it the magazine's "Loudspeaker of the Year." I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/470/">my December 2001 "As We See It"</A> about how a cross-country road trip had begun with a listen to the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/465/">Cantus CD</A> on the Wilson WAMMs in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//interviews/478/">their designer's</A> Utah listening room. And, as I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/557/">my April column</A>, auditioning Peter McGrath's 24-bit <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/461/">Nagra-D</A&gt; master tapes on Wilson MAXXes in the Halcro room was, for me, the highlight of the 2002 CES.

Of the small number of times I have been totally swept away by listening to recorded music, a significant proportion have involved loudspeakers from Wilson Audio Specialties. It was my experience of their X-1/Grand SLAMM in the listening rooms of reviewer Martin Colloms, then-retailer Peter McGrath, designer Dan D'Agostino of Krell, and manufacturer Madrigal Audio Labs, that led me to name it my "Editor's Choice" for 1995 and join my vote with those of the <I>Stereophile</I> scribes to make it the magazine's "Loudspeaker of the Year." I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/470/">my December 2001 "As We See It"</A> about how a cross-country road trip had begun with a listen to the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//features/465/">Cantus CD</A> on the Wilson WAMMs in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//interviews/478/">their designer's</A> Utah listening room. And, as I wrote in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//asweseeit/557/">my April column</A>, auditioning Peter McGrath's 24-bit <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//digitalsourcereviews/461/">Nagra-D</A&gt; master tapes on Wilson MAXXes in the Halcro room was, for me, the highlight of the 2002 CES.

It's not every Consumer Electronics Show that someone introduces a $29,000 solid-state phono preamplifier&mdash;and I miss it. The 2002 CES was one. My show report in the April issue made it <I>seem</I> as if I'd found out about it there, but the fact is, someone clued me in after I'd returned home. I needed to come clean on that.

It's not every Consumer Electronics Show that someone introduces a $29,000 solid-state phono preamplifier&mdash;and I miss it. The 2002 CES was one. My show report in the April issue made it <I>seem</I> as if I'd found out about it there, but the fact is, someone clued me in after I'd returned home. I needed to come clean on that.