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Several used sonos faber il cremonese for sale. why?

I've noticed lately that many used il cremones speakers by sonus faber are for sale lately.  And the price after being only 2 to 3 years old goes from a list of 55,000 all the way down to 25 to 30,000.  And they seem to be on sale for quite a while, and from dealers too.  I thought these were very nice speakers and don't understand why they're at such a discount and why many seem to be on sale these days.  I know the Amati g5 Sonos is supposed to be very good.  People aren't selling to buy the lower level g5 speaker.

I also know, and as openly acknowledged by sonos, the speakers are a lot more expensive because of all the design work to make them pretty. With these low used prices why would anyone pay 55,000 even if it's discounted by 10% or so? I know it's an older design speaker that hasn't been updated for a while but that may not be a problem.

Any thoughts about this as I was kind of interested in il cremonese. What's a good alternative speaker?

emergingsoul
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limomangus
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They do make killer speaker stands..work of Art...

dgibans
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I have listened to these a number of times and like them. I have a friend who bought them and loves them. He did add a few Rel subs which definitely helped. They sound better in his room than they did in the dealer's showroom (what a surprise). For 25-30k I think they are a good deal if you like the sound. They are also very pretty if that matters but are big. I went in a different direction based on how they sounded in the showroom (they didn't image as well as I was looking for), but in his room they sound great with much better presence. Why are there several for sale ....don't know but I know he doesn't plan on selling his anytime soon.

grislybutter
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Sonos? Sonus. 

A 50K (30, 25, etc) speaker for a living room or dedicated audio room, the size of a larger hotel room, is a giant waste in my world. There are so many beautiful and beautiful sounding speakers for a 10th of that.

But that's just for my dumb ears and thin wallet devil

emergingsoul OP
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I had the same concern about the imaging and level of detail being expressed throughout the room. A softened image may not be good at times and was interesting to hear the rel subwoofers helped, I thought the point was not to need subwoofers for these speakers. Dealers offering them for $28,000 used that means a credit of probably 20,000 against any new purchase. Certainly while I prefer buying new a substantial discount off the 55,000 List is necessary. And I’m talking about a sell price of 35 to 40,000 new.

I'm now looking at TAD speakers.

 

lpretiring
463 posts
 

Out of curiousity, what components does your current system comprise of?

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