Sonus Faber Sonetto II Bookshelf Speakers

As the larger bookshelf speaker the Sonetto II embraces all the iconic elements of the brand including natural materials, the Lute shaped cabinet & artisan hand finishing in Vicenza, Italy. It produces deeper bass and a bigger soundstage than the Sonetto I and can fill a larger space but it is still easy to drive which makes it an ideal choice with most medium powered amplifiers.

Being a little larger, the Sonetto II produces a larger sound than its little brother and is more at home in a larger room. It will take more power and produces terrific bass thanks partly to the new reflex port implemented on the speaker’s base. Although this speaker can be used on a bookshelf or cabinet, it really shows what it can do when mounted on the Sonetto Stands and pulled out into the room a little. Paired with a suitable subwoofer such as the REL T7i and your room will be filled with warm enveloping music.

Sonus faber has always found its inspiration in the highest Italian culture. With Sonetto, the history of Italian literature is used as inspiration for the new collection. The word ‘Sonetto’, or ‘Sonnet’ in English, originally meant ‘Sound’ or ‘Melody,’ and was traditionally used to accompany musical performances. Sonus faber’s new Sonetto collection seeks to marry these traditional forms of sound and poetry within the framework of their acclaimed speaker design.

An Emotional Bookshelf Speaker: In comparison to Sonetto I, this is a bigger 2-way stand mount loudspeaker. Its high performance features a larger mid-woofer, which is capable of ensuring a more dynamic & deeper low frequency response and greater emotional impact. Besides its dimensions, Sonetto II still has the capability to disappear in the environment, with an elegant and graceful style. An elegant piece of furniture that fills the environment with its warm and enveloping ‘voice’.

Leather Top: The Sonus faber Sonetto collection’s floorstanding and bookshelf models inherit from the Olympica line the leather top, hand-sewn, soft to the touch and embellished by the hot branded Sonus faber logo.

Lute Shape: The lute shape that characterizes most of the Sonus faber models, offers a solution that ensures no internal parallel surfaces and perfect control over internal resonances.

The Voice Of Sonus faber: The combination of a silk dome tweeter with the DAD™ (Damped Apex Dome™) technology and a midwoofer with a special natural fibre and paper blend air dried diaphragm, defines the iconic “Voice of Sonus faber”. This configuration that characterizes the entire Sonus faber catalogue, from the Reference to the Olympica collection, is available for the first time in this price range.

Midwoofer: These drivers have been designed from scratch specifically for this collection and they all feature the die cast basket, done completely in Sonus faber’s laboratories.

Reflex Port: The Sonetto collection’s reflex ports are all sited on the base of the speakers, except for the centre channels, to keep the design as clean as possible and at the same time make in-room placement very forgiving.

Sonetto Floor Stands: Consistent with the most prestigious Sonus faber models, aluminium has been chosen for the floor stands, extruded or milled from solid billets, to provide extreme rigidity.

“Overall, the Sonetto II proves to be a highly impressive standmount (speaker). It has an endearing character that makes music fun, whatever you choose to listen to – and yet it doesn’t sacrifice basic accuracy in doing so. It has a fine tonality, great rhythmic bounce, decent dynamics for a smallish standmount and commendable sound-staging with especially impressive depth perspective. Factor in its obvious style and quality, and it’s hard not to love.” – Hi-Fi Choice