For those familiar with Sonus Faber

I'm also interested in comparison of the Serafino vs Olympica nova line. From what I can tell, many people claim somewhere in these two lines is where the "real Sonus Faber sound" is, which I feel is a bit nonsensical. SF offers many speaker lines with their name on them, afterall.

If anyone could comment on this: the only experience I have in my own listening area consist of Dynaudio C1 Platinum and Elac Solano floorstand  models. Both of these models are definitely on the polite side. I wonder how similar or different Serafinos would be. Ultimately I'm after a clean, natural, and transparent sound over all else. 

I love my Olympica Nova V speakers. Sounded just as good as Serafino speakers a friend has. Very clean and natural, with amazing soundstage and dynamics. Using McCormack DNA 225, Levison 5805 (as preamp, DAC, and phono stage), Aurender N200, VPI HW19 MKIV (SAMA & TNT 5 Platter) w/ Fatboy 10 uni and SDS, Sumiko Palo Santos and Shunyata Alpha cables. 

The Maxima Amator is quite the speaker. I had the Nova’s before and for my tastes the Amator is different but better in the sense of driver integration, probably due to the crossover design, and for how well they stage. The Amators disappear, and vocals, piano, strings are simply beautiful, slightly warm also due to the real walnut box. The Serafino and Nova are much better in dynamics and bass punch. They both fill rooms well, super musical speakers. 
 

I’d think big transistor mono’s for the Serafino or Nova, and something like tubes or class A, like Audio Research or Pass for the Amator line. Generally the SF team uses Audio Research and McIntosh to voice their stuff. 

The Serafino2 has been out ,I owned the Olympia Nova 3 the Serafino 2 is much more refined .

for less money you should absolutely take a look at the Borresen X3 speakers .

a Ton of trickle down technologies other speakers Donot have . The ribbon with wave guide  1-100 of a gram very powerful neodymium magnets ,and drivers 5x faster by design with type of carbon fiber,sandwich design ,for $11k ,120 lbs each ,comes in only gloss black or gloss white . Read a few reviews I have heard much of their line up . A huge open soundstage,  detailed loudspeaker , with fast tight bass into the mid 30hz range ,btw most recordings don’t go lower  then that. At least read a few reviews then go have a audition. These are much better then the nova 3 I owned . The Sonus Faber are more beautiful To look at that’s their only + .

I’m also interested in Sonus Farber speakers and have a local dealer who desperately wants to become a SF dealer. I was asking about the Amati g5  and the Serafino g2 and was told there were none in my state. My local dealer said we could drive 250 miles and listen to a pair of Liliums running on a full McIntosh rack. I’m asking about a $26k speaker and she wants to show me a $75k speaker.  I started to laugh and she quickly came back with and I’ll buy you lunch! I keep on laughing. I haven’t decided if the 9-10 hours of driving is worth hearing speakers I’m not going to buy playing on a system I’m not familiar with. But then there’s that free lunch…