Wilson Audio Autobiography

Autobiography is Wilson Audio's definitive statement — over half a century of loudspeaker design converging into a single five-way, seven-driver instrument in which every transducer was conceived exclusively for this loudspeaker. It is not a revision of an existing platform, and it shares no driver with one. It is Wilson's closing argument for what a loudspeaker can be, and it sits at the very top of the catalogue.

The transducer set exists nowhere else in the line. The tweeter is the CSLS, a front-firing design developed for Autobiography alone. The midrange runs the PentaMag — a magnet structure beyond even the QuadraMag alnico drivers that define Wilson's reference tier. The bass section is a dissimilar pair, a 12″ and a 15″ woofer, each assigned the portion of the bottom octaves it handles best rather than splitting the load equally. And the time-alignment is adjustable across every array, at a precision that exceeds the WAMM Master Chronosonic — the loudspeaker that defined the discipline in the first place.

The demands are what the tier implies: a 4-ohm nominal load and reference monoblocks of no less than 200 watts per channel. What cannot be bought at any power level is access — LMC is one of seven dealers in the world chosen to present Autobiography, and the pair in the Scottsdale reference room is one of seven demonstration pairs anywhere.

It anchors the Reference Room's first system on an all-Burmester Reference Line chain: the 175 turntable through the 100 Reference Phono Preamplifier and 077 preamplifier, into 159 Reference Mono Amplifiers, tied together with a full Transparent Opus loom. Walk in during business hours or book ahead for an extended session — and the honest comparison, against the WAMM and the Chronosonic XVX in their own rooms, can be arranged in a single visit. Few places on earth can make that offer; this is one of them.