Chario Sonnet Walnut with matching Stands

For sale is a beautiful and pristine condition pair of Chario Sonnet loudspeakers with stands. These Italian beauties are an easy to drive 4-8 ohm load. They are a great example of Italian craftmanship. I purchased these new from an authorized dealer. They have been in a smoke, child, and pet free home. They and a pair of REL S-3's very handily outperformed the Vienna Acoustics "Die Music" which costs $30000. They are easy to set up and have very heavy beautiful walnut cabinets with no marks, scratches, dings whatsoever. They are in as new condition and have never been over driven as I am a low to moderate volume level listener. They are extremely solid and well made with the speaker weighing over 30 pounds and the stand another 29. The speakers bolt to the stands for a very rigid mounting. I will deliver and set up these speakers within a reasonable distance of Dallas. I have all shipping materials and manual. See the Chariohifi website for more details. All fees and shipping costs paid at my asking price.

" The drivers are comprised of a 1.5-inch Silversoft dome tweeter and a 7-inch Rohacell Full-apex mid/woofer that look very similar to the units used in Magico speakers. They are vented with a “Half-Exponential Hourglass Type” vent in the back of the speakers. Frequency response is stated at 50 Hz to 20 kHz. They are rated at 90 dB sensitive and they present a fairly easy load for most amplifiers and are rated for up to 140 watts. They actually worked very well with the 10-watt Grant Fidelity A-534B integrated tube amplifier producing some rather satisfying SPLs. They come standard with WTB type bi wire binding posts and that is how I ran them throughout the review utilizing XLO Signature bi-wire speaker cables.
Once I started to actually get into measuring the Sonnets, I found out something interesting about that claimed 55 Hz bottom end: Wrong! I measured them on a full frequency sweep from 20 Hz to 20 kHz from one meter away and they were almost flat down to 40 Hz.
On Eve Cassidy’s, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, from her Songbird album, her voice was very delicate throughout the song and when she really let the power of her voice out, the Sonnets maintained that delicacy and just supported it with more weight. There is something about this version of the song: when played through a really great system, it will choke me up. The urgency in her voice during this later bit in the song either comes through sounding very nice and strong or, with the right synergy, it can rip through your soul. Maybe it is the notion that she died not long after this that heightens that emotion; but the Sonnets get right to the heart of that delivery and thrust it in your face with no apology, or so much as a tissue to dry the eyes. Honest, emotional and capable of delivering devastating sadness in a song if it is in the original recording – it is this tonal accuracy that really sets the Sonnets apart. I was able to make a direct comparison with the AAD Silver Reference 1 monitors. The AAD speakers have received some rave reviews especially with their ability to reproduce the human voice. Side by side, the Sonnets were light years ahead of the AADs in every aspect.

What does it all mean? What’s it all about Alfie? Simple, I think.

If you are looking for a speaker that does not require lots of space, will bring you close enough to full-range without too much sacrifice in the bottom-end, an honest delivery of what is on the recorded media and has a sexy Italian body to boot, then you need to arrange a date with these twins. Find out for yourself how much fun they can really be.

From "Enjoy Audio":

The Chario Academy Sonnet is a compact reference loudspeaker with enormous depth. Like the great Sovran, she fascinates the listener with extreme spatiality, richness in color, resolution and musicality. The Sonnet never plays nervously or strenuously, but every detail is represented in a large room with a great fun factor. A dreamlike compact loudspeaker, which due to its design principle can also be integrated acoustically into almost any room without problems. The bass fundament of this compact reference loudspeaker is amazing.