The tracks used to listen were from Luka Bloom a rather good audiophile recording, tracks 1 and 2 (Cold Comfort and True Blue) were repeatedly used during the review to truly assess the differences between the speakers. Both speakers were toed-in aggressively and situated in a triangle about 9 feet per side, equilateral in spread. The room was well treated with bass traps in all corners and diffusors and absorbers in the calculated places along the walls and ceilings taming first reflections and further on. The room was a rather medium/large room measuring about 17x17 feet. This review is about how the Concertino Domus stacks against the vaunted Cremona Auditor. This review, however, is not about how the Cremona Auditor stacks against the Cremona floorstander or whether the statements that the Auditor is better than the larger Cremona is founded on some ground. Arguable, but the basis for such a conclusion is supposedly in the pudding. Some listeners may even venture to state that the Auditor is a more precise speaker than even its bigger brother, thereby affording one the opportunity to take it one step further and possibly state that the Auditor is the best speaker in the Cremona range. The Auditor is a scaled down interpreter of the Sonus Faber tradition, as all the ads say, a miniaturized version of the Sonus Faber Cremona floorstander. A 2-way bookshelf that sits atop much praise and good reviews over the past several years since its introduction. On the other hand, we have the Cremona Auditor. The Concertino Domus is supposedly an improvement over the previous Home series both in looks and in sound, we shall see if this judgement call is justified during this listening session. The Concertino Domus stands as Sonus Faber's attempt to secure the lower end market by positioning a $1500 bookshelf firmly atop all others at its price range by borrowing trickle-down technologies from the famously popular Cremona Auditor. So we have here two of the three Sonus Faber bookshelves. Theta Generation VIII DAC/PreAmp - $10,000
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