WILSON AUDIO TuneTot. 2-way speakers. The smallest model ever created by Wilson Audio.

Special application engineering is part of Wilson Audio's founding DNA. The first product to fit that definition was the Wilson Audio Tiny Tot, or WATT®. Long before it became the top module for the venerable WATT/Puppy® combo (the best-selling $10,000+ speaker in audio history), Dave Wilson used the WATT as a portable paging monitor for the series of records with audiophile quality he created in the 80's and 90's. Recordings revered to this day, and currently available on the Wilson Audiophile label.

TuneTot is the latest product from the Wilson Engineering™ (WSAE) Special Applications team. Although its name pays homage to WSAE's first product, it is a modern technical tour de force designed to deliver timbral beauty, dynamic nuance, soundstage resolution, and transparency - all hallmarks of Wilson loudspeaker design culture. -, but it does so in environments hostile to all those qualities.

TuneTot is the smallest and least expensive Wilson, but it would be a mistake to see it as an "entry level" offering. TuneTots are carefully crafted and assembled by the same group of talented craftsmen who build the WAMM Master Chronosonic, using the exact same processes and techniques. Their cabinet and controller technology is derived directly from Alexx and Sabrina. Ultimately, every TuneTot that comes out of Wilson is held to the same rigorous, industry-leading manufacturing tolerances as its big brothers, ensuring that each TuneTot is as technically and musically accurate as the reference prototype. You hear exactly what Daryl Wilson heard in the final design.

TuneTot and time

Since the inception of the first Wilson loudspeaker, it has always been understood that mastery of time is a critical factor, if musical authenticity is to be the goal. With TuneTot, the challenge was twofold: isolate the active loudspeaker from its surroundings and provide adjustable time-domain correction. Wilson engineers cleverly combined both needs into one solution. Wilson provides precise but simple installation instructions that allow TuneTot to be corrected in the time domain for each installation.

A cabinet that only Wilson could make an engineer

Composite materials have the advantage of being made up of several different constituencies, each of which can be optimized for a variety of design characteristics, such as acoustic damping and stiffness and performance factors that are mutually exclusive in single-material materials. element such as aluminum or MDF. As is true of all Wilsons, the TuneTot enclosure was analyzed and re-analyzed using their state-of-the-art Laser Vibrometry system to optimize enclosure wall thicknesses and strategic implementation of proprietary compounds. With this precision instrument, WSAE engineers easily detect even the smallest vibrations in the case - down to billionths of a meter, which, in turn, reveals the ideal combination and geometry of the compounds for the cabinet. TuneTot is constructed from two Wilson proprietary composite materials: Wilson's proven combination of X and S materials.

Wilson's engineers didn't stop there. Perfectly rectangular enclosures are cheap and easy to build, but suffer from music-destroying internal reflections generated by parallel walls. TuneTot's casing is asymmetrical, ensuring that no internal surfaces are parallel. Inspired by the technology of the Alexia 2 series and the WAMM, the TuneTot cabinet further features a complex internal reflection management system.

Strategic by design

Background music systems are becoming more and more a part of contemporary lifestyles. Another innovative Special Applications product, the Wilson Audio Duette, successfully addressed the challenges caused by placement near the edge. Placing a loudspeaker on a desk, shelf, counter, or dresser has meant accepting serious sonic compromises. Interactions and resonances from furniture or shelves that the loudspeaker rests on are a source of audible distortion and coloration, detrimental factors that most loudspeaker designers simply accept. The Wilson Way™ demanded a new look at the problem.

The Special Applications Engineering team spent months investigating the interactions between TuneTot and the surface on which it is installed. It quickly became apparent that assumptions about ambient resonance control needed to be reexamined. For these installations, the challenges presented are very different from what exists for a typical floorstanding loudspeaker with spikes to floor problems that require a different strategy. A series of specific accessories has been developed to deal with the resonances of furniture origin endemic to this type of installation.

TuneTot ships with a set of leveling spikes. These devices allow the installer to obtain the correct and optimal diverter angle relative to the listener, but are also designed to provide some isolation between TuneTot and the surface below. A significant step further is the TuneTot ISOBase™, an interim isolation platform that sits between the speaker and the bottom surface. ISOBase offers unprecedented levels of decoupling and isolation between TuneTot and the structure it rests on.

A new ecosystem

More than a speaker, TuneTot is instead an element within an ecosystem populated with custom tools and accessories (purchased separately) designed to maximize its performance and cosmetic beauty in a wide variety of applications. The aforementioned ISOBase is the ideal solution for shelf, desk, counter or sideboard installations. Many Wilson owners prefer to listen without the grille attached. For these installations, Wilson designed an optional aluminum ring, which covers the mounting hardware that secures the woofers. The ring is individually milled and beautifully finished in a choice of four anodized colours. For those listeners who prefer a grid, there is one available for TuneTot. Its low diffraction frame is individually milled from solid billets of very low resonance X material. Acoustically transparent fabric (available in six colors) is meticulously hand-stretched over each composite frame.

As part of the TuneTot ecosystem, Wilson is introducing five new paint colors and two new anodized hardware colors (for a total of four). TuneTot owners cancustomize their speaker setup with the right mix of performance options, paint colors, and hardware and grille colors for their individual installation and aestheticneeds.

specs:

drivers

Middle Woofer: 14.61 cm (5.75 in) - Pulp doped

Tweeter: 1 inch (2.54 cm) Dome - Doped Silk Fabric

Type of box

Mid Woofer: Rear Vent

Tweeter: Sealed

Measures

Sensitivity: 86dB @ 1W @ 1m @ 1k

Nominal impedance: 8 ohms / minimum 6.61 ohms @ 172 Hz

Minimum Amplifier Power: 25 Watts/Channel

Frequency response: 65 Hz - 23 kHz +/- 3 dB[RAR]

Dimensions

Height: 37.67 cm (14.83 inches) without nails

Width: 8.61 inches (21.87 cm)

Depth: 10.19 inches (25.88 cm)

product weight

Weight per carcass unsorted: 13.15 kg (29 lb)

Approximate Shipping Weight: 31.75 kg (70 lbs)

separate accessories

Isobase decouple base

TuneTot Ring Trim

TuneTot Grills grills