Lumina 1 Speakers From Sonus faber. Entry-level Italian style in a small cabinet for £799
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The dinky, stand mounts of the Lumina line, Paul Rigby reviews this new, entry-level design
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They are gorgeous in person!
Oh, almost forgot! I bought the Rega Elex-R, it is formidable! Thank you for your advice, I'm forever in your debt.
I have the same set up! Fantastic
Lumina II’s are purchased and day two of testing. The sound is unique in so many ways! Keepers!
Hi, im also interested in getting the Lumina II's. 2 months later how are you enjoing them? What amp did you pair them with? What music do you listen to? Thanks in advance 🙏
@@impulsenr01 I am thinking about the lumina 2 as well associated to a Lyngdorf TDAI 1120. What electronic are you thinking to use ?
Oh yes, I will be listening to Violator and Delta Machine which I only started to enjoy after buying good floorstanding speakers. It is an awesome recording.
Dont forget the awesome Ultra....their best IMO:-)
Great album choice my friend and I get what your talking about with Oldfield being too casual on that beach lol! Great artist though. Enjoyable review yet again Paul. 👍
"Like some bloke walking down the street". Loved the comparison. I am a Martin Logan Motion fan and I am stuck between getting the Lumina 5 or the Martian Logan Motion 60XTi. Two different sounds. The mids in the Lumina's are, OMG. The treble although not "hot" is certainly bumped a bit in comparison. The huge negative with the 60XTi's is the height of the tweeter: sitting down my ear is below the tweeters about three quarters down, and slightly above the midrange. Listening to the 60's in the store I was about the same but a little higher, still it sounded just fine. I guess it's the dispersion angle.
I am just perplexed if I should get the Motions because my ceiling is just under 7 foot, about 4 feet shy of 7 ft to be exact. Perhaps I will, or perhaps I will not have any ceiling bounce issues with the ML tweeter vs the Lumina's which stand much smaller. Any ideas?
What would you do? Cheers.
I am definitely listening to violater today!
Tonal balance vs. tonal realism. Food for thought.
I love the quirky looks.
I always loved my old Concertinos, wish I’d never traded them. On a side note the MOFI pressing of Doolittle is an absolute belter, I’ve got the Surfer Rosa MOFI too wish I’d stumped up for Bossanova and Trompe le Monde
Thank You.
I'm not positive I get your metaphors correctly here. Are you saying I need a powerful amp? I need to crank up my amp? Or both?
Might be a but easier if you just said what you mean BTW. Instead of hoping other people understand what you're hinting at. Because I'm left wondering about most of what you said actually, but this one here has me most concerned. As I prefer speakers that are enjoyable at high, and low volume too. Maybe it's a UK style/slang thing, as I'm an American.
Either way, thank you very much for reviewing these, and have a great weekend. ✌️
Both. You will need an amp rated at 30W or more which might surprise some when the look at the size of this design. For a low power-rated amp you will need to increase the gain. And hey, no worries on the question. That’s part of the reason the Comments section exists, to help clarify info.
I'm afraid the only thing the leather dampens is my enthusiasm, but with the addition of some four inch spikes, you could market them to the S&M crowd.
So you're saying that a cambridge xax35 will pull all the sound from these and the lls
Hi, thank you for your review.
I am on the market for a pair of speakers with a budget of around 1000 euro, did you had the opportunity to listen at the lumina 2?
Any recommendations in that price range?
Thx
I'm a bit confused as to who Sonus Faber are trying to please here. You would have to have a decent sized room to stand them a full metre from the walls, at which point you would need more than a budget amp to fill the room with music, given the efficiency and impedance figures. In all likelihood, you would need to add a sub-woofer too if you wanted scale to the sound. Can't help thinking there are better speakers for small rooms or more balanced solutions for larger rooms.
'Wenge' - AKA (and i'm not joking...) 'Dikela', and 'Mibotu'. Last seen on some lovely bass guitar fingerboards - one could manufacture some choice phrases here I suspect...
'African Rosewood' is a safer alternative.
Thanks for the insight, Rob :)
Lumina I speakers have low sensitivity . How do they sound on low volume levels?
£800 - the front panel looks like 5mm ply
That's just the beauty layer.
What do you think about the Lumina 3 ?
I've yet to review them, Sebastien, although colleagues tell me they work best with high-energy music as opposed to classical.
@@TheAudiophileMan thanks for your reply. I am planning to buy a Marantz Pm6007 and CD 6007.
I hope it will much well with the Lumina 3 .
Sorry to be 'that guy' but: fAH-ber not fAY-ber.
They're Italian, it's pronounced Sónusse Fabéri! :)
Made in PR China?
So I’m told, made in Italy.
@@TheAudiophileMan well that’s a great price if they’re made in Europe
Thank You.