Thanks Joe,
The video is great, interesting to hear Darryll’s design concept as it is a completely beautiful process.
The temporal framework looks at not just at immediate and literal present time coherence but also how the experience of listening to music links us also from past experience (recall) to current experience and being seated in the now of listening and also can create simultaneously linked moments of projection forwards as well (musical anticipation).
This is the musically discrete version of architectural phenomenology where the notion that any perceptual state is a shared temporal space between recall and retention of embedded understanding of past experience brought on by current experience and also then the building of anticipation and the sensation of a future. Continuity as temporal flow.
Past designs X also lead to the development of the V now and projects to the future designs of Wilson X (which is projected as a life cycle of development) which is also generational... could be Dave <> Darryll <> and perhaps looking forwards eventually to next gen Wilson design wherever that may lead.
Either way just really nice to see his genuine and authentic engagement in design is mature and holistic and points at the highest intention.
He is clearly a big picture dude with high concept integral to his essential design process. Colour me impressed, it has resulted in what looks to me like one of the more beautiful speakers that Wilson have produced. The organic skeletal frame is rendered in a very sculptural and poised way, the scale and relationship of the parts is lovely and it has arresting aesthetics that are both well proportioned and harmonic.
The balance between revealing and celebrating structure and using the curvaceous movement of fabric to lead the eye back to the drivers is really nice visual control. That ultimately function leads to lovely form is marvellous design. Hope it sounds just as well integrated as it looks... that would be a deserved outcome, certainly the contemporary forward looking design works to create a clear sense of that anticipation.