To me if you buy a wilson chronosonic speaker it means you wanna go all out.
Real estate can be a concern off course, thats another discussion.
I m not a cables/ tweaks guy but speakers room amps must work as a system.
A speaker is just a building block
One could build a top notch system with an alexx as well (everything needs to be in perspective and tuned.)
A top room can only bring the absolute top level sound expirience
May be M lavigne should start giving courses.
I keep thinking however that with all that mids membrane surface area this was designed to work with a basstower.
I could be wrong off course.
Actually with this i mean the first original Chronosonic design not this one .
thank you for the kind words.
yes; a 'top' room does help, but there is much wisdom in the details of your post. especially the part where you say 'a speaker is just a building block'. my perspective is to find a speaker that is not limiting for your room. which means if you have a big room you need a speaker system that (1) can move a lot of air, (2) is adjustable in the bass; the more adjustable the better, and (3) where the speaker's output does match the room to a certain degree so it can 'hook up'.
then it took me 10 years to figure out what to do (where i was going) with a good speaker system in my 'top room', and another 2-3 years to actually do it.
i think if we were to choose 10 'uber' dynamic cone speaker systems at the top of the food chain including the big Wilson Master Chronosonic, the room, system and room tweaking would be much the dominant factor in what our ears hear. and i think that the separator would come down to amplifier naturalness and headroom, and the mid bass and seamless coherence. every 'uber' speaker system does mids and highs sufficiently. this (mid bass and seamless coherence) would be what would determine how far the system could go in terms of scale and ease.......if you close your eyes. open your eyes and all bets are off. biases (equating performance with brands and $$$) and agendas come front and center.
speakers are just tools. big expensive eye dominating tools.
getting back to these XVX speakers in these smallish rooms. i think we need to give anyone the benefit of the doubt and not to pre-judge what we have not heard. 19 years ago i had 550 pound Kharma Exquisite 1D's in my 12' x 18' room. they sounded fantastic when i kept the music small scale or lower SPL's. these were speakers with a big sound. visitors were just astonished. were there limitations? yes. but the sound was very fine and i got my money's worth. of course; at the end of the day i sold my home and moved to my new place with a barn to remove limits from the music. but that was a great sounding small room and system. so i will never criticize a big sounding speaker in a small room.