SONUS FABER CREMONA M™
$12,800.00 pr

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.