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Sonus Faber - Cremona M
SPECIAL $14,000.00
AV Guide
Review
Hi-Fi News
Review
Manufacturer's
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Cremona M, the latest member of the
Cremona family to borrow its sonic balance and design details from the
ranges flagship model, the Elipsa.
FORM: Chief among its physical design elements is the use of the lute
shaped form pioneered originally on the Amati and Guarneri homage.
Twenty pieces of solid and laminated maple wood ensures excellent
cabinet stiffness that breaks up any resonance nodes and controls
standing waves. This cabinet construction provides excellent results
with even difficult room acoustics allowing bass to roll effortlessly
into the listening space while both midrange and high frequencies
disperse effortlessly. Cremona M’s form is tightly tailored and the
reduction in overall scale from the Elipsa works to its advantage
allowing it to be easily integrated into a variety of listening spaces.
FUNCTION: For Sonus faber, the drivers are crucial to the sonic success
of their approach. Sonus faber continues its recent tradition of
reducing moving mass, stiffening the coned drivers, while asking the
tweeter to extend out well into the 30kHz region. What makes this recipe
so remarkable is that as with all Sonus fabers balance and harmonic
richness is retained. In lesser designs, lightening and stiffening might
well result in hard and brittle sound, but not here. Instead, we find a
true fidelity, powerful yet refined, dynamic and spacious.
Dual 7” Scandinavian-made bass driver use a special magnesium-aluminum
alloy cone, with a pole-piece extension of milled aluminum to assist
with heat evacuation from the voice coil’s gap. The 6” midrange is a
black wood pulp of special origin from Scan-Speak, valued for its
midrange neutrality, mated to its own-vented acoustic enclosure. And the
1” high frequency driver is a dual toroidal waveguide example of the
extended bandwidth Scan-Speak ring radiator tweeter built just for Sonus
faber.
Inevitability, the finest drivers and cabinets in the world mean little
without brilliant crossover integration. This aspect of Sonus faber has
always been an inherent strength, with much of the musicality and
sweetness deriving from their ability to blend the various elements into
an organic whole. Here, non-resonant low order crossovers are used for
their inherent dynamics and openness, with crossover points set at 400Hz
and 2.3kHz.
Cremona builds forward the core virtues of the Elipsa at a much more
accessible price, and in a form factor appropriate for typically sized
listening rooms.
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System Type: |
3-way floor
standing vented box loudspeaker |
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Cabinet: |
Lute shape
design crafted using sandwich construction
techniques using 20 hand selected wood
layers and solid maple. Each layer is
quality graded and oriented for carefully
optimized resonances control. Sub-structural
ribs are strategically placed for absolute
rejection of spurious vibration and standing
waves control |
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Driver
Complement |
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Woofer:
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7 in. (180mm)
lightweight Aluminum/Magnesium alloy cone
drivers with ultra-dynamic performance and
linearity. Special coaxial anti-compressors
are used designed to remove cavity resonance
and distortions |
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Midrange: |
6 in. (150mm)
cone driver with Symmetric Drive Motor
System and selected “black wood” fiber cone
treated for control of break-up. Driver
features a dynamic linear suspension,
designed synergistically with its vented
acoustic chamber. |
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Tweeter: |
1 in. (25mm)
ultra dynamic ring radiator-driver |
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Crossover: |
Non-resonant
second order design, with optimized phase
characteristics for optimal space/time
performance. Crossover points 400Hz – 2.3kHz |
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Frequency
Response: |
40Hz – 30kHz,
tuning ports included |
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Nominal
Impedance: |
4 ohms |
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Sensitivity: |
91dB SPL
(2.83V / 1m). |
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Power
Handling: |
50W – 250W,
without clipping |
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Finish: |
Natural Maple
or Graphite multicoated with medium gloss
ecologically sensitive lacquer |
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Dimensions: |
13.8 x 44.1 x
22.25 inches (WHD)
350 x 1120 x 565 mm (WHD) |
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Weight: |
161 lbs. (73
Kg) per pair net weight., 193 lbs. (87.5 Kg)
per pair – shipping weight. |
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