Sonus Faber Lumina II Speakers Preview

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The Lumina II bookshelf speakers are part of Sonus Faber’s Lumina collection.

Even though the Lumina II is the larger of the two bookshelf speaker models in the collection (the other is the Lumina I), it is still relatively small in the size spectrum of bookshelf speakers on the market. The Lumina II employs a two-way bass-reflex design utilizing a 1.1” soft dome tweeter and a 6” paper-cone mid-woofer. The rectangular-shape narrow vent is inconspicuously placed on the bottom front of the speaker and the whole vent construction functions as the base of the speaker. The front baffle of the speaker looks clean and attractive without the grille. Protective fabric grilles that attach magnetically to the front baffle of the speakers are also provided.

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Typical of Sonus Faber speakers, the Lumina II exhibits an attractive appearance and good build quality. The sides and top of the cabinets are wrapped in black faux leather, a material that has been used in most of the Sonus Faber speakers. The front baffle has several finish options: piano black glossy finish and real wood Walnut or Wenge veneer. All these finish options carry the same MSRP of $1,199. As can be seen from the pictures, the review sample comes in a piano gloss black finish.

My upcoming review will look into more details the features as well as the sonic performance of these little Italian beauties.

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Yongki Go, Ph.D.

Yongki considers himself as an aerospace engineer by day and an audio/home-theater enthusiast by night/weekend. He earned his doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from MIT in 1999 and has pursued a career in academia before changing path to join the aerospace industry. He has been writing for SECRETS since its early years, but was on hiatus during the few years when he was living overseas. He has been actively writing for SECRETS again not long after his return to the US in 2012. Although his field of expertise is in aerospace control systems as exemplified by more than 80 technical articles in various aerospace-related journals and conferences, his passion has always been in hi-fi audio reproduction. It is this continued passion for audio that has kept him as a long-time member of the SECRETS team.