Wilson Audio Puppy (Years Unknown)

Not much is documented about the Wilson Audio Puppy on its own. The surviving period press treats it the way Wilson designed it, as one half of the WATT/Puppy loudspeaker system.

The clearest description of the technical arrangement is in Audio's February 1996 review (p.55). An internal crossover low-passes the Puppy woofers and high-passes the WATT, with a broad overlap from roughly 125 to 250 Hz. The measurements in the same issue (p.58) treated the Puppy as a rated 4-ohm load. Peak input power handling was 360 watts at 20 Hz, 700 watts at 40 Hz, then 450 watts at 80 Hz. In listening tests, Audio (p.59) found the combination delivered a rare blend of clean sound and high volume. It reproduced loud rock and jazz percussion particularly well, handled the full output of a Krell amplifier without complaint, and behaved very well even when its limits were reached. On massed orchestral passages the output stayed clean enough to pick out individual instrument sections.

By the WATT/Puppy 6 generation, Audio (January 2000, p.80) found the system nicer and less aggressive than its predecessor, with a sweeter top end. It also reported that the system leaned further toward sheer musicality than the System 5 had (p.83).

The record does not establish production years, original pricing, sensitivity, weight, or dimensions. Audio gave the woofer module strong, specific praise in both 1996 and 2000, and the paper trail is still thin.