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Originally Posted by metaphacts
Congrats on the Cremona M.
Hmm, prefer the GP to the Liuto visually? Have you seen/heard the Liuto Wood in North American Cherry, Walnut or Smoked Oak? Liuto Wood is a different enclosure - 3/4" full height staves of solid wood laid up as the side panel vs mdf - adds leather covering on the bottom, the spine, and the swept top panel, and now has the outrigger front spikes. Now has much more in common visually with a Cremona than any other Sonus, imo.
It would be politically incorrect for me to suggest that the Liuto Wood's changes are a significant sonic step forward - but Sonus' natural wood enclosures have historically well outperformed their mdf counterparts. Just sayin'.
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The Liutos my dealer had on hand were the North American Cherry, albeit the first generation; which did not have the leather accents. I understand that now the speaker is trimmed in leather instead of the textured black finish it was originally released in. Are you sure about the Liuto being solid wood? From what I have read they are MDF with wood internal sub structrure for bracing. Either way, it is clearly a better performer than the GP Domus, and mabye my preference for its looks are completely biased, since the GP Domus were my mistress for almost 2 years
As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. BTW, mine were gloss piano black, not wood veneer.