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I’m just starting to listen and already know my answer because of my strong unscientific bias.

Hi guys,i picked the Lumina 3 because they look 10x more expensive in my space compared to the lumina 2 on stands,and i got them on offer for just a little bit more money. Will send pictures next time when you do viewer’s system photos. I would like to see something from the olympica line as to see what 3x the price gets you. Keep up the amazing work 🔥👌

Love the Lumina Being full blooded Italian hits home for me :) Out of my price rang these days and not a Klipsch fan I had those and Meh. Sold.

You've spoken so highly of the Concept 50s and R700s I appreciate you throwing in those comparisons.

Just finished the lawn work, time for Andrew and Kristi, happy Sunday y'all ✌

I am not surprised by your conclusions of the Lumina II's. I love my setup with the Lumina II's and REL T5x and they sound absolutely fantastic. I have heard the Lumina V's at my Sonus faber dealer - different equipment and different room etc - I thought then I preferred my Lumina II's and chalked it upto my Merson Frerot DAC but who knows. I have zero desire to upgrade my speakers. My problem now is I intended to take some of my good equipment down to an audio room I am building - but I refuse to separate anything out of my current system.... Thanks for the great work on your channel and thank you to Kristi for her perspectives - I think that is a great feature of your channel.

Thank you for the in-depth review. I had the chance to hear both the Lumina V and the Sonetto V side-by-side at my local shop and instantly became completely enamored with Sonus Faber. I was crushing too hard on both to make any discernable observations between the sound of either line but hands down the Sonetta cabinet is a step up aesthetically. Needless to say, my speaker fund has been reestablished, and I look forward to having some SF soon. I would love an in-depth look at the Sonetta V.

I absolutely love my Lumina II. I paired them with a vintage Carver Sunfire True Super Junior Subwoofer and the IOTAVX SA3 integrated amp.

Lumina V Meta action complete! I will say I was happy with mine out of the box, but I recently picked up the Dirac license for my MiniDSP Flex and the low end just sounds incredible (even turning off my sub). Also, they really did benefit in control going from a 50W/ch (8ohm) Rotel to a vintage Mitsubishi DA-A30 @100W (also 8ohm, ~140W @4). For me the low-volume performance of these really make them stand out.

Review the Sonetto series which is a nice step up from Lumina and with distinct Sonus Faber sound ❤

So glad you finally dropped this! Been absolutely loving my Vs with the g700. Fantastic to see it tested together. I have a Martin Logan sub with it and it's just the business. I still gotta get some Lumina IIs for my desk now that I'm officially hooked on Sonus Faber 👏🏻

These speakers are just so handsome. I was expecting the towers to have a room filling advantage but I'm all the more impressed that the bookshelves held their own! Thanks for the great vid, as always!

The Lumina 5's are amazing and they are going to be my front speakers for many years to come. Everytime I play something through them it's always fantastic regardless of whether it is a movie or music and any genre sounds great.

The Lumina V has the upgraded paracross crossovers vs the other Luminas. It also has the internal lute cabinet for mid bass and tweeter. It pushes the Lumina V closer to the higher end Sonus Faber lines.

I prefer bookshelf speakers and a sub (once the sub is dialed in properly) to floor standing speakers. I'm not limited with placement as with a floor standing speaker. Bookies generally disappear more easily than floor standers. This is all just my opinion however, and others experience may be different. Bookies over standers!!!

Really liked this one, love when you two drag in the catalogue of your equipment experience to bolster the context of a review. Thank you for the 2k roll-off insight as well. I'll be keeping my ears open. Lastly, so glad to see Andrew has finally received Kristi's unabashed seal of approval! So proud of you, man! (lol) You guys never fail to bring a smile. Thank you for keeping fun in this hobby that so many get so serious about. #PianoBlackIsBoring #ThereCanBeOnlyOne

Hey Andrew I just wanted to let you know that I love your videos. I like chilling, drinking some tea and or coffee and hearing you talk. It is relaxing and informative.

I think the Sonetto would be just upgraded from Lumina. Personally I would be more interest in comparing the Olympic Nova bookshelves or the Amator Electa or Maxima which are supposed to be different and very very special. Like pass on to next generation / last speaker you will buy special. Thanks for the great and comprehensive review of this whole Lumina line. Was also curious about the center channel offering.

A similar comparison between kef r3 and r7 would be interesting 🤔 Thanks for the speaker measurements, they add that extra special something to a review. Personally I prefer towers because small bookshelf speakers on ugly stands look wrong to me in a living room setting. That is why I got kef r5s instead of r3s.

Yeees! Secret Samadhi is one of my Live favorite albums, I’m gonna use “Gas Hed Goes West” on my next audio speaker test. 👍🏻👍🏻

Been waiting for this one !!! Purchased the V's about 4 months ago...... love them. Refreshing to hear your thoughts align with mine in your review. Perhaps the rabbit hole I've gone down is finally making sense. Agree the II's are great but didn't want bookshelves. The III's just seemed like something was missing but I was close to purchasing them because I knew my sub would round them out. Then my dealer tells me they are finally gonna get a pair of V's in so I held off. 30 seconds into the first song I was so glad I waited. Greatly appreciated the dialog explanation. I too have dialog issues. Will definitely take that into account when I replace my center channel speaker.

@Andrew Robinson: Mate, you make these decisions for us so so much easier to make. You summed up the whole Lumina line-up really really well 👍 I don't think anyone could have done it any better. At least for me, it was darn easy to come down to the absolute conclusion and its this: Tower speaker: Polk 700s (with a better, powerful amplifier that always pays dividends even in the long run) Bookshelf speaker: Lumina 2s with sub and its sorted. Thank you for the interpretations and explanation as always Andrew, boy you nailed it yet again. I'd really appreciate if you could do these kinda comparisons in the same line-up that have two or more good speakers, bookshelf and tower together ✌️👍 Trust me, it certainly helps. Special thanks to Kristi for her input, as always, ever so concise, precise and to the point, no bs ✌️✌️ So to end, excellent job as always, you both. God bless 🙏 P.S.: Looking forward to seeing a few more powered speaker reviews on your channel. As you said it in one of your videos, and I believe you, powered speakers could very well be our future.

Like everyone else, I’d like you to review the Sonetto line, probably the Sonnetto VIII. However, although getting into crazy high prices, I’d love a review of the Olympica Nova line and even the Maxima Amator. The Olympica might be the prettiest speakers I’ve seen and the Amators are simply beautiful as well. While I really think it’s crazy to pay that much for speakers I also think it was crazy to spend what we did on chairs, couches, curtains, carpet, lighting, tables, and other appointments for our room when a number of those items approach those prices. Having a beautiful room with so much invested in it makes it at least a possibility that the price of those lines is worth it not to take away from that current character of the room and to add them as an additional piece of fine furniture. Definitely all of it is hard to swallow, but just maybe…

My vote goes to the Sonetto II getting reviewed next!

David Gray lost songs is such a great and underrated album. Haven't heard a bad Sonus Faber speaker. The Sonetto series is wonderful, and I never heard the Olympias. You're dead right about the roll off in terms of dialogue intelligibility. My wife has a similar problem to Kristi and she loves the Q Acoustics Concept 500s and also 2 Harman Kardon soundbars in terms of dialogue clarity. A 20kHz bump will do nothing for detail for most adults because it's outside our our hearing range.

I am considering the lumina 2 as a potential next speaker upgrade. I love the port design / footprint of the speaker.

Thanks for calling out the 2kHz valley of death, such a strangely common choice from manufacturers. I'm 100% the strange guy that'd buy the small tower because I like the look better than the bookshelves with stands.

Liking audiophiles with an episode of Highlander! Kristi cracks me up and speaks my TV viewing language. Really liked what you both did here having the ability to listen and compare the various size speakers in the same brand's product line for this review. Very helpful!

It’s funny you brought up the R700 no longer in white. I would have bought those but went with Martin Logan Motion 60 in white. Cost way more but I wanted to like the looks too and prefer the white variants. That said, I have two SVS PB 1000s and almost regret the towers since I have then crossed over around 90. Bookshelves might give me almost the same sound and I could have saved money. Don’t get me wrong, these are end game speakers for me but I think the bookshelves of this line would have been too. Great video as usual! Have a great rest of the weekend!

As always... LOVE your reviews!!! Always appreciate Kristi's take at the end... Such a wonderful perspective!!! Also... Would definitely like to see you review the Sonus Faber Maxima Amator!!!

Move up to the Sonetto line 1st once completed then to the Olympica Nova and so on. You maybe the 1st and only reviewers to review their entire premium hifi speaker line.

Love that Kristi intro…. When a KZfaq video just make You smile, you just got hit that like button.

Would definitely go with the 2’s and use subs. But, the design aesthetic for the overall series is outstanding. You guys do such a great job with how you review things. Appreciate it.

Great vid as always!!! Kristi hit the nail on the head when she said she wants a speaker with clear dialogue. I watch more movies than listen to music. I like Songs Faber design alot but, might have to look into some qs

I enjoyed your video! Big Sonus Faber fan. Go Olympica Nova for the next review.

For all time value, I had a $59.99 dollar pair of bookshelf speakers from Radio Shack, as I entered my first year of College at Ohio Universite in 1985. They were paired with one of those white Emerson turntables that I got when I was 14 or 15. Power came from whatever was Technics cheapest Integrated Receiver at that time (from JC Penney's!). Rush to Stevie Wonder (full length albums bought from Camelot Records for $8.88 or less, that combo got the job done.

Something that a lot of reviewers get wrong about the Lumina Series The Lumina I and Lumina III were meant to be placed near wall and the II and IV placement is more traditional placement away from rear walls. This is most likely the reason you hear so little difference between the II and III.

I must say that I love watching your reviews. Listening to what you look out for in the speakers you review helps me learn a lot. In this particular review, I may not be able to conclude whether i agree with your conclusions or not because I have not heard any of these speakers . However, I love the recommended track, Gas Hed Goes West by Live, because it helped me listen again to how my speakers perform. Thanks

Here we gooo… I second that, You guys did a great run down of the line, been waiting for this review

The two options (bookshelf and tower) are far closer than most people will lead you to believe. Thanks for another great video Andrew and Kristi, fantastic job as usual. I really like the aesthetic of the Lumina line, but am quite compelled by the Q Acoustics. Too many solid choices!

I like standmount speakers with stereo subwoofers. I was staggered how much better the speakers I've tried them with sound, you don't just get better bass, the midrange blooms too and treble becomes sweeter. Set up with care they make the sound more spacious relaxed and detailed. And they can be adjusted to work in any room and at any volume you like, flexible and much better sounding. What's not to like?

Always enjoy your reviews and this was no exception. I have Lumina 3s and enjoy them however at some point would like to go to SF Sonetto Vs. Would be great if you guys could review the Sonetto line even versus the Lumina line please. Also SF Electa Amators possibly. Thank you

Would love for you to review the Sonus Fabre Sonetto V. Love the show one of the best

Great Review! I’d like to hear your take on the Sonetto V’s.

Andrew, love your reviews. Funny thing is today I ran across an Integra DTA-70.1 for sale. And when I searched for reviews, yours came up. From 10 years ago I think. Amazing how influential and successful you've been in the industry from such a young age. Thanks. Love your vids. And Kristy(sp?) is amazing. Her input is a very valuable addition

Sonetto line is the obvious next step in the SF lineup. Climbing the model tree would be awesome!

Maybe you guys could get the Sonetto V in as your next SF speaker. I'd be interested to see how they compare to Lumina V. Also, higher end Monitor Audio might be interesting.

I am never disappointed in these loudspeaker reviews. For me, this was particularly good. I have been searching for loudspeakers, it seems, forever and I am still not quite ready. But I'm getting there.

End game, end game, end game! Lol! Great video as always and more outtakes please! QOTD 1: A good bookshelf/sub pairing with room correction always beats a tower in my opinion QOTD 2: Sonetto 2 Thanks again!

Sonetto II please

I would love to see you guys review the Sonus Faber “Sonetto III” floor standing loudspeakers👍👍👍

Great review guys. I have the Lumina ll paired with a Rel tzero sub and absolutely love .

Thanks! "Team Q" is what my daughter has gone with as her space is beyond her current soundbar. The Nova's are nice and nearer to your needs, but I have always been a fan of the Illium as it was the first I ever heard in a high end. It's a heart thing.

Oh yeah! I have an opinion on which SF I’d like to see reviewed. It’s one of my dream speakers: something from the Olymipica line

Generally speaking, quality full range towers deliver more dynamic impact, and scale of soundstage compared to a stand mount (not bookshelf) quality speaker. The main caveat being the size of the room, and placement of the speakers. In a room of 2k cubic feet or less stand mount speakers, even without a sub, will do the job as long as we don't expect then to exceed 95 dbs (over 95 dbs in a room under 2k cf will cause serious hearing damage for sure). For rooms 5k cubic feet or large most full range towers AND subs will be required to deliver large scale and dynamic impact above 85 dbs. As is the case in all things audio, as it relates to speakers, the size, shape, and boundary type (i.e. glass, wood, carpeting, acoustic treatment etc.) of the room is a major factor. Thanks for sharing your experience in your room.

I got the V's in walnut a couple months ago, and am in love! They are indeed beautiful and will be in my living room for a long time.I upgraded from Triangle BR08's. The Luminas are very smooth, and to my ears, the slightly boosted treble is super helpful as I don't hear very well above 15kHz or so. I found the bass without subwoofers to be satisfying for music e.g. Bjork's hyper ballad kicks hard in my room and shakes my floor nicely. The slight (very slight) cabinet coloration you pointed out I found to be very sexy when listening to acoustic music or classical real instruments. That said, I do like having subs for electronic music and movies crossed over around 50-60Hz. The bass that is there in the Lumina's is super articulate and just organic enough (I don't like clinically "fast" bass and like some texture).

Hi Andrew and Kristi, awesome review as always. I think the Sonetto range would be the next logical Sonus Faber line to review as after that the next lines are out of reach for most people. I own a pair of SF Lumina Il’s connected to a NAD C700 in my kitchen. I have a pair of SF Sonneto V floor standers connected to a NAD M33 in a music room. (l can hear Andrew and Kristi cringing about the M33 but sorry guys I absolutely love this amp which with the SF Sonneto V’s is a marriage made in heaven!!!) Anyway when I come home in the evening while preparing food and eating dinner I’m playing my favourite music on the Luminas ll which really draw me into the music and captivate me, as I’m finishing up I’m always in total admiration of these speakers. I then walk into other room where the same music from the same source is playing (streaming Tidal connect) and it’s just at a completely different level, there’s just no comparison between the two systems. After an hour of listening to this system a seed begins to grow in my brain, are these floor standers really that much better than the book shelf’s in the other room ?? I have to go check and I walk back into the Kitchen where the Lumina ll’s are still playing the same music and then you really know, the Lumina ll’s are great speakers but there a mile behind the floor standers in the other room. Granted the M33, Sonnetto V system cost four times the price as the other system, is it four times better ?? to me it probably is, I’m now 62 and can now afford to spend this amount of money on a system but also If I was 32 and had a young family to raise I could live quite happily with the Lumina ll there absolutely brilliant and fabulous value for money but there not ever going to match more expensive floorstanders.

Please review the Sonetto floorspeakers, I'm considering either them or the lumina for my first system and would love a great comparison! Thanks!

What is your opinion about : 1 - Goldenear Triton reference . 2 - Wharfedale Evo 4.4 . 3 - PROAC RESPONSE DT8 . 4 - TRIANGLE BR09 . 5 - SVS Ultra Tower Speaker . Please answer if you know anything about them and thank you in advance .

Great content as always! For future Sonus Faber products I would love to see the Omnia, and the Olympica line.

THANK YOU! for this. When I read the title, I immediately asked myself, "What happened to the Lumina iii's?!" And there they were. You were able to anticipate and provide answers to every question I had between the v and iii's. I don't hate a subwoofer, but these will go in a great room, where we are trying pare down and a tower is really where we prefer to go. Decision comes down to these and the Concept 50's. Not going to lie, aesthetics are important. The Sonus Faber's would better blend int the room visually than the 50's. That said, in a room with two story ceilings and somewhat open concept be better suited to what would seem like a tighter more "focused" sound of the 50's? Would love both of your takes!

OK please please review the Sonus Faber Sonetto V. and compare them to the Lumina V.

My favorite set is 2x bookshelf with sub woofer. It's much more easy to manage bass. My dream is a pair of B&W 805 D3/4 with BD3D driven by Naim.

Value Kristi's opinion, as I too have a hard time hearing voices. I would like to listen to the Q Acoustics 50, but can't find them anywhere. There is something about the cabinetry of the Sonus Fabers, especially the Sonetto series. I am willing to pay more for the cabinetry, but not if they don't sound as good as the Q Acoustics 50. I hope you will be able to compare the Sonetto V vs. Lumina V and the Sonetto center ii vs. Lumina center.

Hi Andrew, would love if you can also review about the Sonetto series as well :)

Just for the design of it, you need to check Sonus Faber Olympica Nova tower speakers! I had the chance the see them in person and I was drooling over the speakers!

Actor dialog understandability, both my wife and I agree is important. We also agree that Hollywood has lost the ability of having clear dialog. I have no idea why but our friends agree that dialog clarity has suffered in the past 5 years or longer.

Hey Andrew and Kristi. I love your channel, keep the fantastic unbiased reviews coming. I am looking to finally upgrade my front soundstage. Came down to Polk R400 center and R700 towers or KEF Q250c Center and Q950 Towers. I will be driving them with a Yamaha RX A4A receiver for now but plan on buying a 3 channel amp later on and using the 3 pre-outs from the receiver. In your opinion what is the better option of the two choices. It will be used for both movies and music. Thank you.

What happened to the out takes? Your reviews are great, but I really miss the out takes at the end. I think it creates a real and genuine humility to your channel.

LOVE my SVS Prime Pinnacles and Prime Towers. Combined with two subwoofers & Ultra Center, they really pack a punch. I would not go back to bookshelf speakers unless I could not accommodate the towers.

Please review the Sonetto II and others in that line. It would be much appreciated

Italians have a design sense that is across the board excellence ... Architecture, Automotive, Apparel, Audiophile, Art . . .

Please review the Sonetto I or/and II. Should be a refined Lumina speaker 👍🙂

Hello ! Great review, thank you ! Sonus Faber released an « updated » version of the Lumina 2 with a new filter called Amator, I’m really curious to see a comparison of the two Lumina 2s to see if it’s worth the extra investment. Also comparing the Lumina 2 to the Sonetto 1 and the Lumina 3 to the Sonetto 2 would be awesome to see if it’s worth going a tier up to the Sonetto bookshelves. Cheers !

Electa Amator pretty please Thanks for all that both of you do!

A'sOTD: 1. Living in a condo the LUMINA II's would be the best option for me. 2. I'd like to see a review on the Electa Amator III's. Outstanding review as always. Thank you and keep up the great work.

Lumina II vs Soneto II please!

I would really like to audition some of the Sonus Faber line. I love their looks and I used to like their sound a long time ago, but I tend to lean neutral to warm on what I prefer from speakers. I’d be interested in the Sonetto II bookshelf.

Would love to see the sonetto 2 vs lumina 2 compared

I really like watching your reviews even though I am no longer shopping for speakers at this time. In your review you mentioned pairing the bookshelf’s with a good speaker stand. Could you do a video on what you consider good speaker stands. Maybe at various price points? Thanks for what you do. Truly enjoy the content.

Guys great review, I would try thee Olympica Nova's, Sarafino's and Sonetto which is the next line up from the Luminas and rumor has it the tweeter and mid from Sonetto was used with lumina or just tweeter, something like that.

I'm a sucker for Italian speakers. Had Sonus Faber Cremonas and now have Rosso Fiorentino floorstanders. They both have what I would call the traditional Italian house sound: a little on the lush side with excellent tonal truthfulness. Don't have any experience with the newer, more entry level Sonus Faber lines. I've heard the sound has changed. Thanks for the interesting review.

I've tried both ways with B&W speakers. I like the mid bass on the towers better. I think the sound resonates in a bigger cabinet

I struggle to find many speakers that out perform my Paradigm ATOMs, small but incredible bookshelf, my B&W are fuller , loader , similar staging but those Atoms still amaze me, but I am a bit jaded after listening to the new KEF BLADES , reminds me of first time hearing QUADs.

After I ordered these I found out about the r700s, still have yet to hear but I really love the lumina Vs so far. They fit my tiny house and I like not needing a subwoofer for most situations. Althou I do still have a JL e sub in case I really shake the house lol

Thank you for your review. How about going one step up, considering review the Sonetto line?

Hey..! That comment about dialog clarity was great..!!! We should explore that...

I knew you’d go for the Lumina 2s! You so love the Lumina 2s ;) And rightly so

7:00 my opinion is that the resonance isn't from cabinet volume but from not enough bracing as you have larger panels in a tower that need more bracing. It's possible it doesn't have enough polyfill or something so there's a lot of excess energy inside the cabinet but that's like low hanging fruit in terms of speaker design so I wouldn't expect that to be the issue and if it is that's an easy fix for the consumer. As for towers vs bookshelf both have strengths and weaknesses. Towers strengths generally are sensitivity, power handling, bass output at the cost of price and vertical dispersion which bookshelf speakers are generally better at. For me I have a small to mid sized room and have subs so bookshelf speakers are the better buy for me especially since you can also use the argument of going up a model. Stuff like Klipsch reference towers are close in price to reference premier bookshelf or same for Kef Q series towers vs r series bookshelf and on top of that you get a better center channel. Totally agree about the clarity thing BBC dip is just an excuse to have poor crossover integration. Doesn't help that Audyssey's crapy target response has it built in so you could get a speaker without it and it will add it back unless you go out of your way to fix it.

Those speakers def look nice. But each week I rave about my R700’s. My listening room is only around 11 x 14, but opens into another area of equal size. Still, the bass is, well, big! Even after turning off my sub and using Dirac to equalize the room, it’s omnipresent, lol, and I love it. For some I can imagine it even being too much of a good thing at times. I see now the need for more power for simply controlling it all. For smaller listening rooms I can see how the Lumina’s might even be a better fit if bass might be an issue. Had my other furniture not all been walnut veneer I would def have considered the white as well as far as looks go. I’m sure for most of us, it’s a no brainer. Pick either and you will be a happy listener. Now about those bass traps…

Great video, as usual. RF7IIIs please!!

Review Recommendation - Sonus Faber Sonetto VIII

"Because they like to live inside an episode of highlander" got me laughing out loud

I guess it really depends on what kind of music you listen to. I have both in my collection of speakers. I still like my tower klipsch Rf-7 iii. But the rp-600m Have there place. Paul Klipsch said it some years ago big box big sound! And let face it. Nobody ever says where's the party at when people walk pass book shelf speakers in your home. With that said Tower speakers 🔊 are just COOL 😎

Dropping gem! Great review.

I'd love to see you all review the Serafino or Sonetto towers.

Another outstanding review. The quality of your content is remarkable. We'll done. As for the speakers, since my wife and I are trying to retire early I'm buying the Polks. With that said there 100% is value in the looks. Because of that, and the fact tower speakers make such a large impact on a rooms looks I consider the 5's a great investment even at the higher price point.

Olympica Nova Bookshelves!!! Thanks!

Fantastic review and very timely for me. I am considering the Lumina II and was curious how the III compared. I do wish these were carried by a few more retailers as getting them in my space for an extended listening session is proving to be a challenge. I will say the fact that they are made in Italy does play a factor for me. Not to start any kind of debate but I am finding it harder to support companies that outsource their mfg to China, although that absolutely limits your choices on almost all things electronic. Thanks for taking the time to put this and the standalone review of the Lumina II together, super helpful.