I've listened to the Sonus Faber Il Cremonese. Good but not great.
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Many speakers sound good or great.
But how am I to really know?
When I get to the shop, i am usually in a good mood, they have everything setup in a room that designed to show off the gear and playing stuff that speaks to the speaker’s strength.
It is hard to translate the sound spatially from the shop to my house. And therefore the measurements provide some backup to what I hear.
Danny Ritchie found that the Venere 2.5 had decent off axis response so it doesn’t beam as far as he is concerned. He designed a completely new crossover and didn’t just upgrade what he called a ‘cheesy’ factory crossover. FR looked very good after. Not sure what process was used to design the crossover.
The spectral decay he said was good before his mods and excellent after. He provides graphics. Nothing in them or FR curve suggests cabinet resonances however.
I have to assume that my Venere 3.0 cabinets would be similarly resonant or non- resonant.
I’m curious to know what he did but will settle for EQ until I have time and money to open my speakers up and play with them.
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I suppose if you own them, then why not.
But he talks about cabinet resonance and he then shows a 25 dB decay and says it is good…
and talks about filling gaps, and adding anti—res… and later says it is better.
Ok, but it was already good.
And note that in Erin’s review he said that the Sonituva had the best damping he had seen in a speaker.
Then Danny talks about the steel binding posts, and replacing those.
But the Sonituva already come with ETI binding posts.
And the things are 2-1/2 to 3x larger than the Sonituva jobs, so we are sort in tower territory.