SONUS FABER MAXIMA AMATOR

Sonus faber has released its first-ever two-way floor-standing model with a solid walnut wood cabinet. Called the Maxima Amator, it’s the latest addition to the company’s Heritage collection. The Maxima Amator uses the same drivers as the Electa Amator III: a 28mm diameter H28 XTR-04 Neodymium tweeter with Sonus faber’s ‘Damped Apex Dome’ and a 180mm diameter MW18XTR-04 bass/midrange driver that has an air-dried cone made of cellulose pulp and natural fibres, and a die-cast aluminium basket.

‘The crossover circuit developed by Sonus faber’s engineers for the Maxima Amator is unique,’ says Philip Sawyer, of Synergy Audio Visual, which distributes Sonus faber in Australia. ‘It’s a new design that foregoes the classical first-order series iteration for a more complex third-order one, with non-academic transfer functions based on accelerated progressive slopes either side of a 2.1kHz crossover point. Sonus faber calls it an ‘Interactive Fusion Filter’, or IFF.’

The cabinet design sees it comprised of three separate internal chambers: one for the drivers, another for damping and stability and a third to house the complex crossover network, which uses Solen Clarity capacitors, Mundorf resistors and unusual Litz-wire coils. The crossover is so complex, and so unusual, that Sonus Faber has fitted a window in the rear panel to enable owners to see the crossover components.

Sonus faber rates the Maxima Amator’s in-room frequency response as 35Hz to 35kHz ±3dB, its sensitivity at 88dBSPL and its nominal impedance as 4Ω. Each cabinet measures 1120×300×350mm (HWD) and weighs 38kg.

Sawyer says the Maxima Amator will be available from retailers throughout Australia in February, and will sell for $26,996 per pair (RRP).

For more information, contact

Synergy Audio Visual on (03) 9459 7474 or visit www.synergyaudio.com