Wilson Benesch Loudspeakers —
Review Excerpts

From STEREOPHILE Jan. 2002
("Discovery" Loudspeakers):
"I would be hard-pressed to come up with a speaker in the $8,000/pair price range that is more rewarding to listen to than the Discovery."

"The enviable hallmarks of Wilson Benesch's loudspeaker sound have been truly exceptional coherence, of the kind usually only associated with panel speakers; seamless transition between mid-range and treble; vanishingly low distortion...What has enchanted me most, though, is a beguiling combination of warmth, roundness and fullness of musical tone, with a seemingly paradoxical abscense of veiling or time smear."

"I don't think I've ever heard as long a "tail" as on the end of John Atkinson's solo electric bass phase test (our test CD)."

"The Discovery's set new standards for integrating musical details without obscuring them."

"The stand-mounted Discovery combines the Bishop's mid-range (positioned on the front baffle but at the top) and tweeter (a ScanSpeak Super Revelator, positioned below the midrange) with one pai, per speaker, of the Bishop's isobaric Woofers. What makes the Discovery a new departure design is that the isobaric woofer pair is mounted through the bottom surface of the cabinet, hence the need for a unique integral arrangement of backbone and stand...Its radical design confines the inertial and reaction forces associated with its woofers' motion to the vertical axis, where gravity exerts a powerful damping force on cabinet motion. Doubly clever."

OTHER REVIEW EXCERPTS:

"To listen to Bishop is to understand the extent of contemporary loudspeaker's sound re-creation capability."
— Stereosound magazine on the Bishop loudspeaker (November, 1999)

"This loudspeaker has not simply opened up a new frontier for Wilson Benesch; its tremendous appeal may radically change...high-end speakers."  
— Stereosound magazine, Japan on the Discovery loudspeaker (Spring, 2001)

Transcript: review panel discusses nominations for Component of the Year awards.
— Stereosound magazine reviews the Discovery loudspeaker (Spring, 2001)

"The ACT One combines conventional and new materials to form an elegant and stylish loudspeaker whose sonics match its looks "
— Hi-Fi Choice Magazine on the Act One loudspeakers (January, 1997)

"...a real thoroughbred...a product that you know from the outset is just so right..."
— Hi-Fi News and Record Review on the Act One carbon fibre speaker (January, 1996)