When I played a bunch of Miles Davis CDs, the speakers projected a vast soundstage populated with living musicians. The Domus sound is flavorful and three-dimensionally solid, with a luscious and full-bodied low end. The speakers' sound also benefited from extended breaking-in. (They can also serve as front speakers.) If your experiences are anything like mine, you may have to work a little to get the most out of these speakers, but the extra effort will pay huge dividends-they're that good. I used a set of stand-mounted Concertinos as surround speakers, situated out to the sides of my home theater. The Center Domus perched on Sonus faber's floor stand, angled up to focus on the primary listening position. Viewed from the side, you can adjust the tower's front-baffle rake angle via its floor spikes-and, once I had everything perfectly tweaked, the Grand Pianos' image height and focus were considerably more lifelike than what I'm used to. The Grand Pianos definitely wanted to be angled in, firing directly toward the sweet spot. The sound wasn't bad in the normal spots, but the Domus really appreciated the extra breathing room. After a few days of moving the speakers to and fro, I wound up placing the Grand Piano towers a foot further out into the room and much wider apart from each other than my standard positioning. The Grand Piano model sits on a stabilizing base outfitted with spiked feet.įor this review, I stuck with my Pioneer DV-45A DVD player, Sunfire Theater Grand III surround processor, Ayre V-6x power amp, and REL Britannia B2 subwoofer all were wired with a combination of Monster Cable and Analysis Plus' Silver Oval cables. The Wall Domus comes with a custom bracket that allows for 30 degrees of arc adjustment with the speaker mounted on the wall or the ceiling. Sonus faber offers optional floor stands for the Concertino and the Center speakers that mirror the Domus' curves and are as beautifully constructed as the speakers. All of the Domus models feature ported designs and come fitted with high-quality binding posts. Decoupled teak wood or curved high-gloss-black side panels suppress cabinet resonance and serve to goose the Domus' ogle factor up a couple of notches. It not only looks and feels nice, the leatherette's grain is said to minimize surface diffraction, and the material also serves as a sealing gasket for the drivers. Faux leather completely covers each Domus speaker's front, top, rear, and bottom surfaces.
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The woofers and midrange drivers also benefit from trickle-down technology-the vented phase plug (that's the silver bullet-shaped part in the center) was originally designed for the Stradivari speaker. Sonus faber has derived the Domus Series' ring-radiator-type tweeter from the one used in the Cremona speakers. The lute-shaped designs bear a striking resemblance to the company's Cremonas ($8,995 per pair) and the new Amati Anniversarios ($27,500 per pair). The line includes the svelte Wall Domus wall-mount model, the Concertino Domus bookshelf speaker, the Center Domus, the Concerto floorstanding speaker, and the magnificent Grand Piano Domus tower speaker. Sonus faber has historically christened their speaker models after venerated musical-instrument makers-Stradivari, Amati, and Guarneri-but the Domus moniker comes from Latin, meaning a private family residence of modest to palatial proportions. That concept inspired the form and function of Serblin's designs, which synthesize the best of old-world craftsmanship with finely tuned technology. Think about it: The sound of a guitar, violin, or any stringed instrument is generated within a carefully tuned resonating acoustic chamber.
For him, the art of speaker and musical-instrument design has everything to do with controlling resonance. That's because they make for pretty sexy sound, too.įranco Serblin founded Sonus faber in 1983 in Vicenza, Italy, to craft speakers that played music instead of merely reproducing it. Yeah baby, the Domus Series' enticing curves-sheathed in supple black leatherette, poised on spiked feet-will get audiophiles all hot and bothered. I don't think I've ever before referred to a speaker as "sexy," but Sonus faber's new Domus line is definitely hot stuff.
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