DETAILS
PRODUCT Sonus faber Lumina V
ORIGIN Italy
TYPE 3-way floorstanding loudspeaker
WEIGHT 22.5kg
DIMENSIONS (WxHxD) 280 x 1,049 x 373mm
FEATURES
29mm silk dome tweeter
150mm pulped paper midrange driver
2x 165mm pulped paper bass drivers
Quoted sensitivity: 89dB/1W/1m (4ohm)
DISTRIBUTOR Fine Sounds UK
WEBSITE sonusfaber.com/en
When first launched, the Lumina range represented a bit of a gamble for Sonus faber but it seems it seems to have paid off. The original small range of speakers was something of a departure for the company with their flat-sided cabinets and different finish, but the arrival of additional models suggests there’s a commercial appetite for them. We looked at the Lumina II in HFC 478 and now it is the turn of the flagship Lumina V.
At first glance, it looks identical to the Lumina III, which we reviewed back in HFC 469. Both are three-way floorstanders, where bass duties are shared between a pair of drivers. The key difference is one of scale. The Lumina V uses a pair of 165mm mid/ bass drivers rather than the 150mm units that the smaller speaker opts for. These are mounted in a cabinet proportionally identical to the Lumina III, but a fair bit larger. The Lumina V is over a metre tall before the spikes are fitted and beyond the numbers, this feels like a much more imposing proposition than the III.
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