Conceived as a speaker system capable of shaping and expressing without limitations the seemingly brutal contrasts that often coexist in music - strength versus delicacy, dynamics versus melody, kindness versus impetuosity, harmony versus chaos - the Lilium is a column that draws on the prestigious models The Sonus faber, Aida and Extrema 30 to materialize in a system that houses two separate identities that, although they work independently, cooperate with each other. Without a doubt, a complex challenge from a technical point of view that involved developing an enclosure with sufficient volume to reproduce the lower part of the spectrum with absolute fidelity and combining it with another that housed the transducers responsible for the main part of the audible spectrum. Without a doubt, a complex challenge from a technical point of view that involved developing an enclosure with sufficient volume to reproduce the lower part of the spectrum with absolute fidelity and combining it with another that housed the transducers responsible for the main part of the audible spectrum. From an electroacoustic point of view, the Lilium is a 3.5-way system that benefits from the transfer of technology from the reference models that Sonus Faber has always practiced, although its designers are especially insistent on underlining that we are dealing with much more than a reduced scale version of the aforementioned Aida. The reality is that the new Sonus Faber column incorporates the latest generation elements that come from the complex process of creation and technological development that made possible the aforementioned Extrema 30, the compact “supermonitor” presented at the end of last March to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the founding of Sonus faber. Thus, for the subwoofer emission system, it was decided to use a completely isolated independent enclosure – applying an evolved version of Sonus Faber's “Zero Vibration Transmission Technology” – to which a solution directly adopted from the aforementioned Extrema 30 was added: the use of a passive speaker instead of the always simpler and noisier bass-reflex port. In combination with a careful supply of transducers designed and made to measure with the most demanding criteria, the result is a speaker with a prodigious frequency response curve and a very comfortable sensitivity that allows it to be combined with a very wide range of electronics.
Characteristics:
- Absolute reference acoustic display composed of a main front system and a lower subwoofer subsystem.
- 3.5-way system with vibration transmission suppression scheme exclusive to Sonus Faber.
- Lyre-shaped enclosure with curved multi-layer panels and an independent hermetic enclosure for the subwoofer subsystem.
- Subwoofer with 260 mm diameter ultra-rigid cone and 2.5” voice coil designed by Sonus Faber.
- Non-resonant crossover filter with optimized amplitude and phase response made with audiophile grade components.
- Made completely by hand in Italy.
- Frequency response: 20 - 35,000 Hz.
- Sensitivity: 92 dB/W/m.
- Nominal impedance: 4 Ohm.
- Recommended amplification power: 100 - 800W continuous.
- Dimensions: 491 x 1,600 x 755 mm (W x H x D).
- Net weight: 51.5 kg per box.
- Price per pair.
