Sonus faber lumin v or sonetto iii

Sonus Faber to me are uniquely natural sounding. I first heard them about 17 years ago along with a whole bunch of others… including Martin Logan, Focal and B&W. The only word I could think of was organic… natural… not ethereal like the Martin Logan… also very coherent.

I was not in the market at the time. Then 10 years ago I got season tickets to the symphony, which I have had since (7th row center). I started realized my system (high end with planar speakers) didn’t sound right… too much treble… this ethereal stuff, artificially enhancing the venue… to little midrange (not fully fleshed out)… and an artificial fast slam in the bass, but without nuance. I thought back to the Sonus Faber I had heard years ago… they had the same coherency and natural sound that real music did.

So I bought a used pair as an experiment. It didn’t take more than a few hours to know I was right. within a few days I had ordered a new pair. The Sonus were coherent top to bottom, natural sounding at the top… fully fleshed out, with great articulate bass. It has improved all music genera… a problem I had been having was I would upgrade and improve electronic music and other genera would sound worse… this stopped when I got the Sonus Faber. So they are outstanding on all genera.

As I moved up the Sonus ladder, I also swapped components that took me closer and closer to the sound of real music. So over ten years my system has evolved completely, to the most natural and musical system I have heard. Tubed gear also helped bring the system closer to real music. You can see it under my ID.

Good you can take your integrated.

My integrated amplifier is musical fidelity m6si. I listen to mostly vinyl my taste of music is classic rock and blues.

How do you like the MF M6SI? @bigmac1963 

The musical fidelity m6si is great amplifier that are driving my dynaudio special forty’s.

I was able to hear a direct comparison of Lumina V vs Sonetto VIII at a dealer.  Importantly, both speakers were played on the same exact system; all we did was swap out the speakers. The sound of Lumina V was so close to the Sonetto VIII that I would be hard pressed to pay twice the money for the Sonetto. One thing I noticed about the Lumina V is how much bass impact they get out of them with kick drums and the like. They were being powered by a Michi X5 integrated amp.