For those familiar with Sonus Faber


I’m thinking of the Olympic Nova 3 but is the Amati Tradition or Serafino worth waiting for the extra money?

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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…