Sonus Faber Releases Lilium Loudspeaker
Respected northern Italian loudspeaker builder Sonus Faber has released the Lilium, a truly high end loudspeaker, incorporating many features from the company's flagship Aida. This 3.5-way model stands a proud 1.6 metres tall and each weighs over one hundred kilograms. We first heard about Lilium back in May, however Australian pricing and availability was not known at that stage.
Fitted with a damped apex dome 28mm tweeter, to which is afixed a wooden acoustic labyrinth, its sweet tops reach from 2,500 hertz out to 35,000 hertz. Like the 180mm midrange, the tweeter is 'decoupled' from the main enclosure to eliminate vibration-induced colourations in the sound.
Three 180mm woofers deliver frequencies below 250 hertz. With its own separate enclosure -- decoupled, also, from the rest of the enclosure -- a 260mm 'infra' woofer comes into operation below 80 hertz. Tuned with a passive radiator, a level adjustment allows room matching.
The enclosure itself features walls with varying thicknesses, curved to dampen resonances. Specially designed internal structures not only further strengthen the enclosure but also control unwanted vibrations.
The highest quality components, including Mundorf Supreme capacitors and Jantzen inductors, have been assembled for the crossovers, which have been designed to optimise the phase and level response of the drivers.
It isn't surprising that the Lilium offers a frequency response all the way down to 20 hertz. They are also relatively sensitive, with an output of 92dBSPL for a 2.83 volt input, yet are rated at up to 800 watts of power handling.
Available in Walnut and Red, the Sonus Faber Lilium speakers come with a five year warranty and a recommended retail price of $89,999.
For more information on the Sonus Faber Lilium visit Synergy Audio Visual.
Marc Rushton
StereoNET’s Founder and Publisher was born in England and raised on British Hi-Fi before moving to Australia. He developed an early love of music and playing bass guitar before discovering the studio and the other side of the mixing desk. After writing for print magazines, Marc saw the future in digital publishing and founded the first version of StereoNET in 1999.
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