A grand generalization - it's okay, that is your style - but what are you saying? And who/what is the referent of "most"? Please say more.
... I found some of the narrow baffle APs were quite nice in a near field configuration, out into the room, particularly with smaller scale works. I haven't heard his latest work.
Tima, I haven't liked a single big cone except in a very big room. Rooms like Mike are almost non existent. The Zellatons at Audio Arts exist in a very well done set up and he has put a lot into the room. In more normal rooms, I like Jazzhead's with the Martens, that's it. More of an exception. I do not like a single Wilson/Magico type system. I can always hear the crossovers or the room interactions or both. So it is not a generalization. I can understand why this will be considered an overreaction by others. As far as I am concerned, it is not. And if anyone does ask me, I strongly never recommend these speakers. I can appreciate that Sasha 2s are much better than Sasha 1 and Alexia 1, and I like them better than Focals or some Magicos, but I really see no sense in having them over a much cheaper stat, or a speaker like the one above. I can appreciate what the Wilsons do better than the speakers in the above article (more bass, more body, more detail), but I have never been in a room where they (and their ilk) have failed to create tell tale bass booms that distracts me from the sound, or fails to make the speakers disappear drawing attention to the speakers, etc. It is not a generalization on my part that I believe 95% plus audiophiles have speakers oversized for their room. Also, those systems color the recordings much more than at Anamighty's in terms of system signature