The Best Franco Serblin Designed Loudspeaker?

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In your opinion, of Franco Serblin's own Sonus Faber designs or those designs for his own company. What was his best speaker?

For me it would have to be the Extremas, speakers way ahead of the amplifiers of the day, but amazing nonetheless.

The Electa Amator and the original Amatis are no slouches either....;)
 
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Got myself a second pair of Electa Amator 2 as first pair i stupidly sold...
 
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Guarneri takes poll position for me followed by the Ktema
 

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In your opinion, of Franco Serblin's own Sonus Faber designs or those designs for his own company. What was his best speaker?

For me it would have to be the Extremas, speakers way ahead of the amplifiers of the day, but amazing nonetheless.

The Electa Amator and the original Amatis are no slouches either....;)

The Extrema's, surely. I have owned them but only keep the original Electa Amator with the wood stands and the Guarneri's. :rolleyes:
 
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Stradivari Homage.. Enjoyed them for nearly a decade. I choked up a bit when they were being driven away, hopefully to a good home.
 
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I think the Extremas with todays SOTA high powered amps would be amazing. Selling these was perhaps my greatest shouldacouldawoulda moment in audio.
 

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My recollection is that the original Extremas thrived on extraordinary power...I remember speaking with people who had heard them with Krell KSA 250s I believe. Today, I think of Gryphon Mephisto, Boulder 2100 or 3000 series...D'Agostino Momentum monos also come to mind. Perhaps the big Pass 0.8-series monos thought I dont know them well.

This is in contrast to the Homage series particularly the Guarneri which while also enjoy high power, also sounded sublime with mid-powered tubes. I think Franco Serblin himself had a Berning OTL in his factory driving the Guarneris during a review.
 
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What do you think about Class D amplifiers, especially the newest (not older!) line of Jeff Rowland, like the 1500W Daemon integrated?
I intend to try my JRDG Daemon with an old Sonus Faber Extrema…
 
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I just purchased a pair of Mark Levinson 436 monos which double down to 1400 watts at 2 ohms. They really rock the Extremas. I'd love to try them out on a pair of Ktemas; one of these days!
 

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