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On Feb 17, 1:01Â*am, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
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On Feb 16, 8:53Â*pm, wrote:

On Feb 16, 3:44�pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"

wrote:
On Feb 16, 12:52�pm, wrote:

I used to think [Bratzi was] an audio guy who was merely obsessed cutting
and pasting off-topic dreck to Usenet. �Now I realize that [Bratzi doesn't]
know anything about audio, either.

I particularly liked his premise that audio designers will not build
something that "isn't UPSable" because "dealers won't like it".

I just heard the Wilson Alexandria X-2s last week, demonstrated by
Dave Wilson himself. Â*I can't imagine he thought about UPS once when
he designed those speakers.

Clearly high-end dealers have shunned Wilson speakers since they are
not "UPSable". Wilson has no dount failed as a result. Mr. Wilson
should have made his speakers "UPSable" if he had wanted to succeed.

"The Sophia measures 41"H x 12"W x 18"D and weighs a hefty 160 pounds.
As with the WATT/Puppy 6, each Sophia is protected for shipping with
an outer layer of film, or "frisk," and delivered in its own foam-
lined wooden crate that increases the shipping weight to 200 pounds
each. I suspect that only dropping off a truck and punching with a
forklift will damage the speakers in transit."

http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/wilson_sophia.htm

The X-2s are...

€¢ 700 lbs each
€¢ 2,300 lbs. shipping weight

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr...6559&read&3&4&

Weight and Size Limits for Packages

UPS has established specific weight and size limits for the packages
that you send with all UPS services. The restrictions below only
pertain to individual packages. There are no limits to the total
weight of your shipment or the total number of packages in your
shipment.

Packages can be up to 150 lbs (70 kg)

http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/res...ht_size.html?s...

Please send Mr. Wilson my condolences on the failure of his company.
Maybe next time he can stay within the parameters agreed upon by the
high-end audio industry and UPS, and thereby find a few dealers to
carry his products.

We recently reviewed a $110,000 speaker system. The subwoofers alone
weighed 220 lbs. each. The designer delivered the system himself, in
his own truck. He brought an assistant and set the speakers up
himself.

So it isn't that manufacturers want to design their speakers to
conform to UPS shipping guidelines. It's that if their speakers are
too big for UPS, chances are they are too valuable to trust them with
UPS in the first place.

Boon