Sonus faber Loudspeakers

Italian maker founded in 1983 near Vicenza, building lute-shaped wooden cabinets and naming its speakers after Cremonese violin makers.

Founded: 1983 (the name is Latin for handmade sound)
Founder: Franco Serblin
Headquarters: Arcugnano, Vicenza, Italy
Manufacturing: Built in Arcugnano, near Vicenza, Italy
Parent company: McIntosh Group
How to buy: Sold through specialist hi-fi dealers
Known for: Lute-shaped solid wood cabinets, leather baffles, models named after violin makers

Currently, we have 42 Sonus faber loudspeakers in our database. Below you can find the list of these speakers with their main specs and links to their review pages.

Sonus faber Passive Bookshelf(9)
Sonus faber Passive Floor-standing(19)
Sonus faber Passive Center Channel(6)
Sonus faber Powered Bookshelf(1)
Sonus faber Powered Subwoofer(5)
Sonus faber Passive On-wall(2)

Sonus faber Passive Bookshelf Speakers

Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
Sonus faber Concertino	60-25k Hz	85 dB	4Ω	1 x 5.25"
Sonus faber Electa Amator III	40-35k Hz	88 dB	4Ω	1 x 7"
Sonus faber Guarneri	40-35k Hz	86 dB	4Ω	1 x 6"
Sonus Lumina I	65-24k Hz	84 dB	4Ω	1 x 4.75"
Sonus Lumina II	55-24k Hz	86 dB	4Ω	1 x 6"
Sonus faber Lumina II Amator	55-24k Hz	86 dB	4Ω	1 x 6"
Sonus faber Olympica I	57-40k Hz	87 dB	4Ω	1 x 6.5"
Sonus Sonetto I	45-25k Hz	87 dB	4Ω	1 x 6"
Sonus Sonetto II	42-25k Hz	87 dB	4Ω	1 x 6.5"

Sonus faber Passive Floor-standing Speakers

Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
Sonus faber Aida	18-35k Hz	92 dB	4Ω	1 x 12.5"
Sonus faber Amati	28-35k Hz	91 dB	4Ω	2 x 8.5"
Sonus faber Amati Supreme	28-40k Hz	91 dB	4Ω	2 x 8.5"
Sonus faber Il Cremonese	35-35k Hz	92 dB	4Ω	2 x 8.5"
Sonus faber Il Cremonese EX3ME	25-35k Hz	92 dB	4Ω	2 x 8.5"
Sonus faber Lilium	20-35k Hz	92 dB	4Ω	1 x 10"
Sonus Lumina III	40-24k Hz	89 dB	4Ω	2 x 6"
Sonus Lumina V	38-24k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	2 x 6.5"
Sonus faber Lumina V Amator	38-24k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	2 x 6.5"
Sonus faber Maxima Amator	35-35k Hz	88 dB	4Ω	1 x 7"
Sonus faber Olympica III	42-40k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	2 x 6.5"
Sonus faber Olympica V	37-40k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	3 x 6.5"
Sonus faber Serafino	30-35k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	2 x 7"
Sonus Sonetto III	42-25k Hz	89 dB	4Ω	2 x 6"
Sonus faber Sonetto III G2	38-40k Hz	88 dB	4Ω	2 x 6.5"
Sonus Sonetto V	38-25k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	2 x 7"
Sonus Sonetto VIII	36-25k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	3 x 7"
Sonus faber Sonetto VIII G2	33-40k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	2 x 8"
Sonus faber Stradivari	25-35k Hz	92 dB	4Ω	2 x 10"

Sonus faber Passive Center Channel Speakers

Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
Sonus Lumina Center I	65-24k Hz	87 dB	4Ω	2 x 4.75"
Sonus faber Olympica Center	58-40k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	2 x 6.5"
Sonus Faber Sonetto Center G2	45-40k Hz	88 dB	4Ω	2 x 6-1/2"
Sonus Sonetto Center I	60-25k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	2 x 6"
Sonus Sonetto Center II	42-25k Hz	91 dB	4Ω	2 x 6"
Sonus faber Vox	40-35k Hz	90 dB	4Ω	2 x 7"

Sonus faber Powered Bookshelf Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Watts RMS	Max Depth / Sample Rate	Woofer
	Sonus faber Duetto	37-30k Hz	700-watt	24-bit/192 kHz	1 x 5.25"

Sonus faber Powered Subwoofer Speakers

Model	Frequency	Amp Power	Woofer
Sonus faber Gravis I	30-120 Hz	150 watts	1 x 8"
Sonus faber Gravis II	25-120 Hz	350 watts	1 x 10"
Sonus faber Gravis III	25-120 Hz	600 watts	1 x 10"
Sonus faber Gravis V	20-120 Hz	850 watts	1 x 12.5"
Sonus faber Gravis VI	18-120 Hz	1700 watts	2 x 12.5"

Sonus faber Passive On-wall Speakers

	Model	Frequency	Sensitivity	Impedance	Woofer
	Sonus faber Olympica Nova W	78-40k Hz	89 dB	4Ω	1 x 6.5"
	Sonus faber Sonetto Wall	60-40k Hz	87 dB	4Ω	1 x 6.5"

About Sonus faber

Franco Serblin founded Sonus faber in 1983 in the Veneto, a region with a long instrument-making tradition, and built speakers the way a luthier builds: solid wood, curved sides, no parallel surfaces, leather and brass. The Homage series named for Guarneri, Amati and Stradivari made the connection explicit. The engineering argument underneath the craft is real - a lute-shaped cabinet has no parallel walls to sustain standing waves.

Serblin was not a trained engineer but a craftsman and music lover, and he treated the cabinet as an instrument rather than a box. He left in 2006 and started his own small company.

Vicenza is an hour from Cremona, where Stradivari and Guarneri worked, and Sonus faber trades openly on that lineage. It is one of the very few speaker brands where the object is genuinely furniture and genuinely a piece of Italian craft, rather than a box with a veneer.

Shares an owner with McIntosh; the group passed to Highlander Partners in 2022.

Notable models: Guarneri Homage, Amati, Stradivari, Aida, Extrema, Olympica, Sonetto.

Official Sonus faber website

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