Best Sonus Faber for 16 sq room. ?

Here is the mail i got from the disbutiator

I will of course also answer in English, even though I have a feeling
that I could understand you even if you spoke in Danish.

Well well. Here goes.

I have had many opportunities to demo and install both the older
version
of Amati and the new Anniversario. Maybe a bit surprising, I feel that
these are two quite different speakers. The first time I set up the
Anniversarios, I was very surprised by the fact that they started to
sound good even before I had done the final positioning of the
speakers.
And from brand new too!

The original versions are much more picky about placement. If you do
not
do it right, the midrange will overpower the presentation, creating an
uncomfortable feeling of too prominent voices and an upfront
presentation in general. This is not the case with the Anniversario.

After two more installations with the Amati Anniversario, my initial
impressions were just reinforced. When I met Giovanni and Cezare at the
London Show, I brought that fact up. I even had a nickname for the
Anniversario - I called it the "plug-and-play speaker" from Sonus
Faber.

They laughed, but explained to me that they had laid down hard work
with
the Anniversario to make the midrange integrate better with the rest of
the spectrum, and to make the speaker as linear and phase correct over
the entire frequency spectrum as they possibly could. This work also
resulted in higher overall efficiency, a more tolerant amplifier load,
and much improved dynamics compared to its predecessor. To show this
off
at the London show, they used a simple PrimaLuna ProLogue 2 amplifier
to
drive them. This system pleased more than 50 spectators at a time. I
was
quite impressed.

The specific pair that Jan Ostrom is willing to sell to you has been
installed by me personally at his very nice HiFi shop in Umea, Northern
Sweden. It is a very lively-looking pair, with especially nice wood
veneer, so I remember that Jan felt lucky over the looks of the
speaker.

I feel that you have the necessary environment and experience to get
spectacular results from this speaker. 16 square meters may not seem
much, but since you have two room treatment options (one manual and one
digital option), your main concern should be to find a listening
position that puts you on the correct distance from the speakers. You
do
not want to sit too close to any multi driver speaker. Even though the
main drivers (tweeter and midrange) are very close on the Amati
Anniversario, I would recommend that you place yourself on a distance
at
least 2 meters from the speakers, preferably a little more, for best
results.

So my advice is clearly to go for it. If you can afford it, it will
definitely enrichen your life. Your amplifier is more than adequate to
drive these beauties.
Jan is a good and trustworthy guy too. You will have no problems with
him.

Please get back to me if you have any further questions.

Tda2200 I'm not an expert, but I think Anniversarios need biiger space than 16sq.meters.....I had Cremona at 25 sq.m. and I was surrounded by music. Annis brings the whole orchestra in your house and the orchestra needs some room to deploy. I even guess that Anniversario designed for bigger rooms than 16sq.m.
As I see it your mind and brain already bought Annis (it's so easy when listen and see this speaker) so If you don't get it you spent your time dreaming it so I understand it's difficult for you.
I think Cremona floorstander it's a better match (since you want floorstander) with to much room correction and good driving it might work. And also nomral decibels.

I used to know a guy with previous Amati in a small room like yours, he had the delight of music in low volumes and overdamped room the amp was YBA passion. But not very loud and complex passages, the room couldn't take it.

I think the best is to try it in your listening room, afterall you paying a lot of money for a reference Homage speaker and maybe one of the best ever Sonus Faber speakers (if not the best yet).

Also consider Branimir's views more thorough.

George

Thanks Kops

I see your point clearly and you are proberly right about me allready have maid up my mind.

Regarding floorstanders vs monitors monitors is out of the questian
My amp simply dossent performe well with monitors
No bass.

I know that if i get the anniversarios the job to make them work proberly will be very complexed.

I almost never listend to loud music only to show of somthimes but 99.9 % of the time i listen at moderate/low levels.

regarding my listning room i have alot of knowledge about roomacoustics .
Because i have had roomcorrection for a long time both the old tact2.2 and the new lyngdorf roomperfect .
I also pay alot of atension to the room when im listning to new gear at a new place.

If there ever was a 16 sq meter room that couldt hause the annies it would be mine .

But maybe The Cremona would be a great start because the can be bourgt cheap and sold later with no loss in value.
And simply see if a floorstander will work in my room.

But if a secondhand pair in graphite anniversario comes up for sale at a good price.

I do think i will take the plunge.

regards

This decribes pretty much why i even think of getting the amatis

The Sonus Faber Amati Anniversario will be happy both in a large and a
small room. The Stradivari, however, requires at least 25 square meters
to be able to perform its whole register.

Regarding dynamics, the Amati Anniversario EASILY outperforms both the
older Amati and the Cremona. The very exclusive Skaaning drivers, made
to Sonus Fabers requirements, and the new filter topology are both
responsible for that.

Like HiFi Choice put it in their initial test of the Amati
Anniversario:

"-Anybody NOT liking the Amati Anniversario must have had their
FUN-button removed long ago."

I think that sums it up quite nicely.

Please get back to me if you have any further questions.

Best regards

Good luck, Tda!

An Amati in each corner with the two ports firing into an horn (the room floor + corner walls)... won't be easy to set up!
Your room is too small for bass and I strongly suggest you gauge the sound by focusing on midbass -- NOT bass (i.e. disregard if you can "hear" 40Hz: focus on if you can "feel" 40Hz, etc).