Wilson Audio TuneTot Pictures From Munich
Wilson Audio unveiled a very small loudspeaker at this year’s High End Munich..we are much more used to seeing and hearing their big offerings (and they were represented in plenty of rooms) so it was quite a contrast to find the TuneTot on display.
The Wilson Audio Tiny Tot (WATT) was a teeny-tiny Wilson loudspeaker, originally designed as a portable tool for monitoring recording, Dave Wilson never intended to sell the WATTs commercially. Among other factors, the attention to detail and expensive materials meant that the asking price for a pair of WATTs would be far more expensive than anything that was on the market at the time.
In the late eighties, when paired with a dedicated woofer module the Wilsons called the Puppy (a Tiny Tots best friend…), the combination of the two went on to become one of the best-selling over $10k loudspeakers in audio history.
TuneTot is the latest product from the Wilson Special Applications Engineering™ team. It is the smallest and least expensive current Wilson model, fabricated and assembled by the same group of craftsmen who build the WAMM Master Chronosonic, using exactly the same processes and techniques. Its cabinet and driver technology are derived directly from Alexx and Sabrina. Finally, each TuneTot that emerges from Wilson is held to the same manufacturing tolerances as its larger siblings.
Price (U.S. MSRP):
TuneTot—$9,800.00 (pair)
In Upgrade Colours—$10,500.00
ISOBase—$2,100.00 (pair)
TuneTot Ring—$649.00 (pair)
TuneTot Grille—$299.00 (pair)
UPDATE – UK Pricing
Audio TuneTot is available in the UK from July, priced at £10,998 (inc. VAT) per pair. Accessories are priced as follows: TuneTot ISOBase: £2,398 per pair; TuneTot Ring: £698 per pair; TuneTot Grille: £335 per pair.
Although we did not get to hear the TuneTot, we did get the chance to experience plenty of its bigger siblings…more of which to follow in our dedicated Munich 2018 section!
Read all the High End Munich 2018 coverage here!
