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I fell in love with these as soon as I saw them at the Munich Hi Fi Snow and was unfortunately caught by the Australian distributor in a compromising position with them in the rather dark room ...

This is the largest loudspeaker Spendor have ever produced. Employing 2 of their famous 12" bass units as used in the SP100 in each enclosure allowing incredible effortlessness in the bass. If size isn't an issue I would be ordering a pair of these and spending the rest of your life enjoying music knowing you will not find an easier, bigger sounding loudspeaker anywhere.

"Hi Fi News" loves the Classic 200 

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We are offering the PS Audio FR30s Ex-Demo for a very special price.

Now on demonstration in a dedicated space in Carlton Audio Visual.

Hi Fi News Verdict:  "The waiting is over, and the aspen FR30 speakers are nothing short of remarkable, setting new standards of focus, openness, weight and control at this price and well above. The build and finish are as immaculate as the sound, the unusual styling works remarkably well in the room, and the listening experience is a revelation. If you're in the market for speakers in this sector, listen to them - they're a bargain."

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Seeing these for the first time was a bit like that occasion when I was at a party outside of my normal social strata of hippy and bikerdom and the six foot 2 inch Supermodel comes into the room. One is momentarily stunned.
Wheras a Sonus faber Aida evokes a sense of primal wonder at the wooden waveforms embedded in their design, the Dynaudio Confidence 60 is like that graceful alien shape that comes amongst us as a creature of grace and purity. Better than us, more evolved and refined than the merely squalid mortal transducer instruments that the multitude of humanity must settle for.

They sound like that too ... I do not honestly believe that there is a loudspeaker that is more measured and true in its presentation. These are not a simple product a the end of along chain of development. The Confidence 60 is a loudspeaker that misses nothing and adds nothing. It is musical truth in its purest exponent and needs to be listened to if you want to know what those who come after us will be playing their music on ....

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This Italian loudspeaker company is known for its gorgeous craftsmanship and visually striking designs, and the Serafino was an undeniable beauty—both “modern and lux.” A large speaker, the Sonus faber Serafino is deft with all musical styles, but masterful with voices. This is the stuff of desire and dreams; they define the idea of “pride of ownership.

The new Serafino Generation 2 are on display here at Carlton Audio Visual in a dedicated space connected via Audio Research electronics. Contact us for an Audition.

 Sonus faber official site on the new Homage series 

 Soundstage Australia reviews the Serafino G2 

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To see this in its sheer walnut solidity is to be inexorably struck by the beautiful hand crafted physicality of the thing. A remarkable exercise in style and design of high end audio technology.

Sonically this loudspeaker has some very different properties ... it has extreme midrange presence with detail and realism that presents the performance that is directly injected into ones forebrain. The bass is deep and deeper.

Playing Adele 25 she is fully projected into the room with an almost visible intensity and when the bass comes in it will make the earth move for you just a little bit.

Official Fyne Vintage Ten site

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This fifth generation iteration of the Amati Homage loudspeaker is now on demonstration at Carlton Audio Visual. They are named after the 16th Italian luthier, Andrea Amati, who was the first in a long lineage of celebrated Cremonese violin makers including Antonio Stradivari.

Like the best violins of that era, the sound of an Amati speaker has always been rich, vibrant and brilliant yet can deliver details at an almost imperceptible whisper changing between the two effortlessly.

It is so hard for a speaker to recreate the sound of a Violin accurately. Vibrato and the lower harmonics in the sound can so easily be lost leaving a glassy sound to the treble and losing the soul of the music. As a professional string player, I still feel that Sonus Faber Reference and Homage series do this better than any other loudspeaker I've heard (I have heard many loudspeakers!) 

One of my reference CDs is Richard Tognetti playing the Bach solo partitas on a 1743 Guarneri violin and yes that's another Cremonese Violin maker. On these speakers, suddenly you can tell he's playing one of the best instruments in the world.

It is possible that these are the most long term listenable of any high end loudspeaker. The vision of Sonus faber is to deliver the music but to avoid that analytical coldness that so many of the highly revealing ultra high end transducer brands are designed with in order to make a quick sale in a competitive demonstration situation. With the Homage series on the other hand it is possible to have a long term musical relationship with the loudspeaker where the romance dosn't fade ....

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The Il Cremonese speakers have the scale and presence of the highest of the high-end loudspeakers. Coupled with a magical musicality.

They are beautiful ... simply and astonishingly.

"The Absolute Sound" announces the Il Cremonese

"Hi Fi News" on the Il Cremonese

"Stereophile" on the Il Cremonese

Get back the total value of your existing pair of speakers (any brand) when you trade them in and purchase a pair of new Sonus faber speakers.

Hurry up! The extraordinary #tradeintotradeup promotion lasts until 1st December 2023.

Time to embrace the Sonus Faber unparalleled performance has finally come.

For a limited time only, you have the great opportunity to Trade In your speakers toward the purchase of a new pair from Sonus faber. As part of our constant effort to enrich people’s lives with exceptional sound quality, we are making an unprecedented offer which is valid for some of our collections: Lumina, Sonetto, Olympica Nova, Heritage, Homage and Reference. 

Please be aware that the new Sonus faber speakers must be 2.5 times the value of the speakers traded in. Please see dealer program document for details.

Hurry up! The extraordinary #tradeintotradeup promotion lasts until December 1st in Australia. 

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Quintessential physical beauty in a loudspeaker ... not for the faint hearted. For most of us this would represent a large portion of our income that if we were sensible would be spent on property , or a new car, or maybe a kitchen renovation. Sadly none of those would make one as happy as the music generated by a system with a pair of Il Cremonese Ex3me loudspeakers.

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Every once in a while one of our brands puts their best foot forward and proffers a design exercise of the level of a McLaren F1 or similar from the car world. These particular speakers are from that same school of engineering innovation that produced the Avro Vulcan and the GMA T50 but are actually far more useful ... and affordable ...

This is the gauntlet Monitor Audio are throwing down to the rest of the industry. A radical rethink of how a loudspeaker can be made so as to be a truly livable high end product.

The first time I played them with my all too familiar Johnny Cash "Hurt", I immediately recognised an extra layer of revealed detail in the upper registers. However the Hyphn can do this without being piercingly actinic like so many high end loudspeaker designs. Mr Cash simply was eloquently melancholic in a heart rending rendition of an all too familiar tune.

They are also comfortable in a real domestic environment without the listeners being forced into a super critical centrality to experience the whole performance. Many very high performance transducers are extremely critical of listening position and acoustic space, these are designed for a real living room, albeit probably rather a nice one.

 Stereonet on the Monitor Audio Hyphn 

 Monitor Audio Hyphn official website 

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We are incredibly proud to be having the only pair of Sonus faber Aida on display in Australia in a dedicated space.

Carlton Audio Visual's dedicated Sonus faber residence Sonus faber Aida official site. 

Stereophile on the Sonus faber Aida II 

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