Sonus Faber Guarneri vs Guarneri Memento

I have a pair of Guarneri's original for trial and compare with my AG UNO speakers - a whole different animal.

I can live with either of the two speakers, the AGs are explosive, detailed and very dynamic, the SF are relaxed, coherent and very musical.

I heard the new Mementos at the dealer demo down here and sounded very promising as well.

I have not heard either. I own the SF Grand Pianos 1997 version from Italy, and the Amati Homage version one 1999
version. I have always loved monitors. have VIVA Auroras Lamm ML2.1 and Cary 845 monoblocks. Also a Naim system.

Still looking for the right tethering/system for the next ten years.

Warren

Davef should be showing up in this thread any moment now ...

Pinkus....how perceptive of you..:0) Congrats on the quick fingers and beating me to the thread..;0)

I actually thought this thread had died a while back..
guess I was wrong. My feelings on the G's vs. M's are pretty well known by now. Simply look on the 'Gon and note how quickly the G's sell when and if they come on the
market and compare that to the M's, which BTW seem to come available far more frequently.

Dave,

lets look at it a little logically...shall we :-) After designing the Guarneri Homage, Franco went on to design the Cremona lineup, the old Amati Homage, the new Amati Anniversario, the new Strad. and finally the new Guarneri Memento.

Are you saying that Franco did not learn anything new in the time period that he was designing all these great speakers ? I don't think you will get too many people claiming that the older Amatis are better than the newer Anniversarios.

Why then would you think that the Mementos would be inferior to the Homages ?