Rocky Mt 2007: Wilson Benesch Trinity Shines at RMAF
October 18th, 2007 By The Absolute Sound
By Neil Gader
With the glitter of the carbon fiber cabinet catching the light, even from a distance I knew I was looking at a spanking new W-B speaker. Ricki Lee Jones was singing A Case of You, and the sound was what I’d come to expect from larger WB offerings, sublimely undistorted, smooth and detailed with resolution right down to the softest levels. It integrated beautifully with the Torus subwoofer with hardly a surprise. The Trinity is no more than about eighteen inches tall but it’s a three-way with an even more unique twist. Beyond the midbass driver and soft dome tweeter, WB has added a third element it calls The Sphere and hence the Trinity name. The Sphere is a super-tweeter dome of gold and ceramic designed to fill in the upper harmonics beyond 20kHz. The precision ground steel and aluminum alloy stands also reveal more WB innovation. It bolts into the cabinet structure of the Trinity and houses the hand built crossover allowing the Rhodium plated terminals to conveniently reside at the base of the stand. Augmented by DeHaviland’s tubed electronics and Gamut digital playback, this was one of the most highly resolved small systems at RMAF
