SONUS FABER OLMPICA II LOUDSPEAKERS STORE DISPLAY MODELS WITH WARRANTY

SONUS FABER OLMPICA II LOUDSPEAKERS

About 18 months on display but as we have 50 or so pairs of speakers on display the actual use time is low. Sonus Faber speakers sold online must be sold as used.

Speakers are in excellent condition overall, 9 out of 10 to allow for minor 'shopwear' and one minor blemish on one side of one speaker, shown in the photos. Rare chance for a very nice pair at an excellent price.

The selling price includes the expense for shipping and insurance. The pair packed for safe shipping in their original boxes totals approx 180 pounds for the two.

MSRP is $10,000 for the pair. They are a matched pair. We have the original boxes.

According to Sonus faber:

"Sonus faber wanted to create a family of speakers rich in content but also evocative of those visual and tactile emotions that have always characterized its production. Thus, wood, leather timeless craftsmanship values of careful and passionate production, able to make anyone understand the sincere love for their work and Music. The Sonus faber Olympica project is made up of a new family of passive acoustic speakers that will add to the existing catalogue of the Arcugnano factory, aesthetically characterized by the use of two iconic Sonus faber noble materials, walnut wood and leather."

According to hi fi +:

"Let’s face it. In the past, it might have been possible for audio enthusiasts to force their hand and install hideous looking loudspeakers in the living room, but we are living in the 21st Century now, and that insistence seems like something from a bygone age. We live in smaller, more design-led homes, and the notion of a pair of big, angular, and often ugly coffins in an otherwise elegant lounge is increasingly unthinkable. However, tastes vary significantly from country to country, and it’s hard to get this kind of elegance ‘right’ on a truly international level.
Unless the company is Sonus faber. Because Sonus faber seems to make pieces of musical furniture with the sort of timeless, trans-national elegance of a chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames, Arne Jacobsen, or Mies van der Rohe. In most cases, this would be hyperbole on a grand scale. Except that it isn’t; Sonus faber in general and the Olympica range in particular is an exercise in sublime product design, and that now comes down to Livio Cucuzza, Chief Industrial Designer for Fine Sounds Group.
The two words I’d used to sum up the Olympica II are ‘effortless’ and ‘mature’. Some loudspeakers always sound as if they are in a low gear. Nothing is a struggle, nothing is a challenge, but also nothing stirs the passions. What these speakers try – and fail – to do is what the Olympica II does so well: namely, manage to choose the right gear for the music. Not much troubles the Olympica II presentation, but it remains free from that listless, dispassionate sound that some mistake for effortlessness. How this comes across in the music is a natural sense of scale to sounds, moving easily from small folk sounds from Laura Marling [Once I Was An Eagle, Virgin], to the expansiveness of Domingo singing and Giulini conducting the LA Phil playing ‘Una Furtiva Lagrima’, from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore [Opern Gala, DG]. This isn’t even an extreme example, as the Olympica II perfectly portrayed the sound-scape of a recording regardless of size and scale."
Technical Specifications
Type: Three-way, ported standmount loudspeaker
Drive unit complement: 1x 29XTR2 Damped Apex Dome 29mm silk tweeter, 1x MW15XTR paper/kapok/kenaf 150mm composite midrange cone, 1x W18XTR 180mm cellulose/foam sandwich bass driver
Frequency response: 40Hz-30kHz
Sensitivity: 88dB SPL (2.83V/1m)
Nominal Impedance: 4Ω
Amplifier power handling: 50-250W
Finish: lacquered natural walnut or graphite
Dimensions (HxWxD): 105.5x37x47.2cm
Weight: 34kg each
Shipping to the 48 contiguous states only