R E V I S E D C Ro S S O V E - WILSON AUDIO Sophia Series 2 Owner's Manual

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technologies that truly contribute to better performance. The MAXX Series 2 fea-
tured new proprietary tweeter technology that significantly reduced spurious noise
artifacts generated in the rear of the tweeter. The result was high frequencies with
unprecedented transparency and resolution combined with a much lower noise
floor. This same technology has been applied to the new Sophia Series 2 tweeter.
Sweet, delicate highs were already a hallmark of Sophia. The Series 2 tweeter
builds on these strengths with greater air, sweetness, resolution, and an utterly
grainless sense of purity. Highs emerge from a silent, black background.
R e v i s e d C r o s s o v e r
David Wilson and the Wilson engineering team are ever searching for the
sources of time-domain distortion. During the development of Alexandria, Wilson
discovered that the interaction between the high and low pass filters created prop-
agation delay noise they dubbed "crossover jitter." Dave and the engineers created
crossover strategies and topologies that reduced this deleterious interaction. The
reduction in distortion-noise allowed Dave and the design team to hear into the
loudspeaker, detect and parse out problems previously obscured by the noise.
Thus the breakthrough not only improved the areas of performance directly related
to the anti-jitter technology, but also allowed enhancements to be made in other
areas of the loudspeaker as well. This process was applied during the development
of MAXX Series 2, and now has been employed in the Sophia Series 2. In the
Sophia Series 2, low-level details, previously obscured by noise, now shine forth
from a black background. Midrange beauty, clarity, and musicality, already a
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