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No home entertainment system is complete without a serious pair of speakers – and speakers don’t come much more serious than Sonus

Faber’s 6-foot-tall Aida models. Based in Vicenza, Italy, Sonus Faber is part of the McIntosh Group, a name revered by audiophiles everywhere. The latest version of Aida maintains the lute shape that made it so recognisable. But it has been overhauled to embrace advanced electroacoustic developments of recent years. These include patented “Stealth Ultraflex” for better bass extension; the “Anima Legata” system and “Tuned Mass Dampers” for elimination of inner spurious vibration; “Zero Vibration Transmission” for saving the listening environment from the spread of vibration and for better performance of the infrawoofer; and state-of-the-art “Sound Field Shaping” technology.