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Originally Posted by Steady339
Coming from a violin-playing background, in looking at a picture of the removed top of the Sonus Faber Stradivari cabinet, it struck me what an appropriate name for this speaker. The curvature of the front and back of the speaker cabinet have similarities to the low arching of the belly and back of a Strad pattern violin!
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Interesting how Sonus Faber, an Italian company, has been inspired to successfully use arched shapes from acoustic stringed intruments such as the lute in their Amati model and violin in the Stradivari to associate themselves with the fine Italian Cremona lutier tradition. Other tie-ins to fine stringed-instrument building are the beautiful Sonus Faber solid wood craftsmanship of the speaker cabinets and the fine quality varnishes.
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You should read up on the history of Sonus faber. Franco Serblin was a luthier by avocation. Franco wasn't associating with a tradition. He lived it. Everything you see in Sonus fabers built before 2008 reflects that.