CREMONA AUDITOR ELIPSA™
$5,800.00 pr

Auditor Elipsa embodies the Sonus faber tradition in the category of compact loudspeakers, making use of top-grade component parts and a minimal crossover network. Like its predecessors, Auditor Elipsa creates a highly refined and exquisitely musical sound.

FORM: Chief among the physical design elements is the use of the infinite baffle form pioneered on the Stradivari. Extensive use of sub-structural stiffening spars breaks up remaining resonance nodes. Wider than it is deep, this elliptical cabinet construction couples easily with even difficult room acoustics allowing bass to roll effortlessly into the listening space. The tightly tailored shape and the reduction in overall scale works to its advantage allowing this loudspeaker to be easily integrated into a variety of listening spaces – bookshelves or on-wall with the supplied bracket. The Auditor Elipsa’s small form factor allows it to be easily integrated into a wide variety of music and film sound systems.

FUNCTION: Sonus faber believes the drivers are crucial to the sonic success of their approach. With the Auditor Elipsa, Sonus faber continues its tradition of reducing moving mass, stiffing 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 faber products balance and harmonic richness is retained. In lesser designs stiffening might well result in a hard and brittle sound; instead we find a true fidelity, powerful yet refined, dynamic and spacious.

A 6” (150mm) Scandinavian-made woofer-midrange uses a special black wood pulp fiber cone that is capable of particularly high resolution and dynamic linearity. And the 1” (25mm) extended bandwidth high-frequency ring radiator driver valued for its smoothness and extension create a compact loudspeaker whose performance belies its size. Inevitability, the finest drivers and cabinets would 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 the ability to blend the various elements into an organic whole. Here, a non-resonant low order crossover is used for its openness and dynamic capabilities with a crossover point set at 2.5kHz.

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