Sonus Faber Cremona I need input on this

Onhwy61 has a point. My friend has Proac Response 3's driven by Audio Research tube equipment and he gets VERY good results. I'm not sure if the Cremona's are really a step up or more of a lateral move toward warmth and glow. The Proacs are pretty damn good (if dated) and the new D38 is better still.

The Cremona's are worth the drive. You should try to hear them at home with your system and your music to really get a handle on how they will sound. It will be worth it and you will know. After 4 months with the Cremona's this is only one aspect of their sound but a very important one. The neat thing about the Cremona's is the way it pulls you in and gets you involved in the music. I personally find this very refreshing and hard to resist. Quite different than the audiophile approach of tearing apart the music and sound and analyzing it's elements or parts. I know this will sound overly simplistic but the Cremona's in my opinion put the music back together. It's very seductive and I find myself getting lost in the music's ebb & flow. It's a speaker that has nothing to do with the latest blah blah blah. Some will love it and other will not understand it. I certainly can't make any universal recommendations but for me this speaker is very special.

99,999% agree with circleman.

agreen with circleman..

i really looked and listened to them when i was looking at speakers a couple of years ago... they are really easy to listen to and get swept away in the music. though i didnt buy them (they were more $$ then my ap speakers which are a little more resolving and a heck of a lot more inefficent) it is one of the few speakers that i would actually upgrade to.

i am really impressed with sonus faber speakers as a whole. they have a easy going musical "house sound" and i went with sonus faber in my ht system and also encouraged friends to buy them who were putting together their system for the first time..