Sonus faber · Vicenza, Italy, since 1983
Sonus faber, from Lumina to Suprema.
Sonus faber builds loudspeakers the way its region builds instruments: shaped wood, leather, and a voice settled by listening. Every collection shares that voice. What changes as you go up is how much of the music, and of the room, a pair can carry. This is the range as we know it from our own listening rooms.
- 1983Founded near Vicenza by Franco Serblin
- ItalyWhere every pair is still built
- LuteThe cabinet shape, taken from instrument making
- SupremaThe flagship whose ideas now reach every newer collection
What makes it Sonus faber
Built like an instrument, because it is one.
Sonus faber takes its shapes, and many of its names, from the violin makers of Cremona. The cabinets curve like a lute because a curved wall is stiffer than a flat one and leaves no parallel faces for sound to bounce between inside. The wood is real, the leather is real, and the finishing is done by hand in Italy.
What you hear is consistent from the smallest model to the largest: a warm, natural midrange, and a top end that stays easy at any volume. Since the Suprema flagship, the newer collections have also gained clarity and scale, with drive units and ideas taken directly from it.
At Pearl Audio
Heard with the electronics it will live with.
A loudspeaker is half of a system. Over the past two years we have set up Sonus faber with McIntosh, Burmester, Luxman, MOON, Pass Labs, Audio Research and dCS, and written up many of those Saturdays in our Journal.
Tell us what you own or what you are considering, and we will put that pairing together for you. If you are not sure yet, we will suggest two or three that we know work.
The collections
Six steps, one voice.
From a first pair on stands to a reference system. Each step keeps the character and adds scale, resolution and finish.
Where it startsLumina
Leather-wrapped cabinets and the house voice in sizes for a first serious system: I and II on stands, III and V on the floor, and the Amator versions with a finer finish and crossover.
See Lumina
The step upSonetto G2
The first collection to take technology from Suprema, including the cork-damped midrange chamber in the larger models. Five loudspeakers, I to VIII, with a center and a wall model.
See Sonetto G2
New in 2026Olympica G3
The third generation of Olympica, with drive units and ideas from Suprema in walnut or wenge: I on a stand, III and V on the floor, with a center and a wall model.
See Olympica G3
The early designs, made againHeritage
The compact Concertino G4, the Electa Amator III on its marble-based stand, and the floorstanding Maxima Amator, in walnut, leather and brass.
See Heritage
Named for CremonaHomage
Guarneri G5, Serafino G2 and Amati G5, with the Vox G3 center: the lute cabinet in its fullest form, and the heart of the range.
See Homage
The top of the rangeAmati Supreme and Reference
Amati Supreme carries Suprema's drive units in a single pair of cabinets. Above it sit Stradivari G2, Il Cremonese, Lilium, Aida II, and Suprema itself.
See the Reference models
Hear it in Portland
Bring the music you know.
Tell us which Sonus faber you are curious about and what will drive it. We will set that system up in one of our two listening rooms for your visit, and take the time it needs.
Arrange a Sonus faber audition
Or call (503) 222-2599 · sales@pearlaudio.com · 1038 NW Johnson Street, Portland