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SF Concertino




In 1995, ACS, an MCB major, graduated from Cal. In 1996, ACS was living in San Bruno, and working at Genentech. But we went to Berkeley, and at Music Lovers Audio, we saw the Sonus Faber Concertino for the very first time. You never forget such jaunts. I think they were using Adcom electronics. The Concertino did a good job on Bryan Ferry's "Sensation," preserving its stark yet punchy personality. ACS would say that the Concertino (aesthetically, not necessariy sonically) made her feel like going to a Roman bath. The MLA staff gave us a brochure, which looked similar to the manual, above.



Turns out we didn't have to go back to Berkeley. In our hometown of San Francisco, Audio Excellence would carry the Concertino.



So how do we know, that the Concertino would have been the better match for my parents' 15x15 room? Years later, in 2007, I brought in a pair of Concertinos. Unlike the Thiel CS.5 and CS1.5, the Concertino did not boom.



But with the Concertino, you do have to experiment with toe-in. Also, because the Concertino seems to roll off the treble, it often sounds better with lean-sounding and more affordable solid state gear, such as A/V receivers, and the aforementioned Adcom gear. That's not necessarily a bad thing; just something to be aware of. I thought the Concertino sounded terrific, driven by an AudioPrism Debut vacuum tube amp, which had better treble fidelity, versus our Classe', Conrad-Johnson (tube and SS), Jeff Rowland, Krell, and Proceed amps.


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