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Perhaps the characteristic that most obviously changes from room to room is bass
performance. Certain listening rooms, such as those with a large number of windows, are
sometimes overly lean in the bass. Others don’t have enough structural ventilation in the
bass, resulting in a tonal balance that is bass-heavy. The negative sonic impact of these
less-than-ideal rooms is often exacerbated by the audiophile propensity to place listen-
ing chairs at or near the center of the room.
The Alexandria has always been a loudspeaker with extended and linear bass per-
formance. But now in the XLF version, the location of the port can be optimized for the
room. Wilson’s Cross Load Firing port is a simple system that allows the Alexandria XLF
to be more consistently optimized in the area of bass performance and extension by
matching the port location to the characteristics of the sound room. Since the system is
completely passive, it avoids the sonic pitfalls symptomatic to all active bass manage-
ment systems.
The Cross Load Firing port System on the Alexandria allows the installer to choose
either a front-firing or rear-firing bass port configuration. The choice depends on room
characteristics, with lean rooms favoring the rear port, and heavy rooms the front port.
The default configuration of the Alexandria XLF is with the bass port installed in the rear.
In rooms where a front-firing port is preferable, it is a simple matter of removing the
brushed aluminum cover plate and port plug from the front, reinstalling these elements
in the rear port, and in turn installing the low-turbulence port hardware on the front of
the bass cabinet.
New Architecture
Dave Wilson is the inventor of several once-patented technologies, including ad-
justable propagation delay and modular construction. In his earliest designs, Dave pi-
oneered the use of proprietary composite materials in his quest to reduce enclosure
resonances. The combination of all these technological factors has always dictated how