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Yvette made its debut in 2016 as the latest and largest of Wilson’s single cabinet loudspeakers.

Since time domain coherence lies at the core of the Wilson design philosophy, a single cabinet speaker would seem to invalidate that claim.

While multi-module designs allow adjustment of drivers in the time domain for a variety of listening distances and heights, the single cabinet Wilson loudspeakers are simply optimized for the most normal placement of the speaker relative to the listener.

Situated in this way, the performance is unerring, and the graceful shape of its architecture—including the slight rear sloping tilt of the woofer section—is the happy result of form following function.

The additional challenge of a single cabinet speaker is the isolation of each of its drivers from each other and the suppression of internal resonances.

Yvette benefited from Wilson Audio’s use of advanced laser vibrometry, a technology first used in the aerospace and automotive industries. A laser beam reveals resonance patterns across a prototype cabinet, informing the choice of internal bracing and material thickness.

Yvette uses the Convergent Synergy tweeter developed for the WAMM, the midrange driver from the XLF, and the 10 inch woofer is closely related to the driver developed for the original Alexx and Alexia.