Sonus Faber Olympica Nova II Floorstanding Speaker

General:
With its discrete dimensions, Olympica Nova II is the smallest floorstander of the Olympica Nova collection, but it has everything needed to satisfy any acoustic requirement.

Overview
Since 1983, many moments have marked the history of Sonus faber; the launch of the Olympica Collection 6 years ago is one of them. One of the first lines presented as a complete family of products, but above all, the very first one to feature original drivers, entirely designed in Sonus faber.

Olympica Nova is the second generation of the iconic family of 2013, improved in its form and substance, imbued with the timeless values that inspired Sonus faber in creating the original line. The result is a new collection that embraces the most advanced technologies that already enhance Sonus faber's most prestigious creations.

With its discrete dimensions, Olympica Nova II is the smallest floorstander of the collection, but it has everything needed to satisfy any acoustic requirement. Don’t be fooled by its discretion, its voice is imbued with an amazing character.

Features

• WOOD: Just like the cabinet sides, the front baffle and the top are made in the walnut or wengè hand-finished natural wood, set in a solid die-cast aluminum plate.
• LEATHER: Natural leather embellishes the Voice of Sonus faber, the brand’s iconic configuration of tweeter and midrange, and enriches the aesthetic rings around the woofers. Genuine Italian leather that, as per the brand’s tradition, is applied by hand in the production department in Vicenza.
• TWEETER: The 28 mm silk soft dome tweeter features the DAD™ technology (Damped Apex Dome™) that enhances the smoothness and extension in the high frequency by applying local dampening to the apex typically responsible for anti-phase behavior of soft dome diaphragms. The DAD™ structure has been totally redesigned; a solid piece of aluminum die-cast includes both arch and ring on the dome to increase the strength and accuracy of the system.
• MIDRANGE: The midrange has been designed and built completely in Sonus faber laboratories. The cone is comprised of an air-dried, non-pressed blend of cellulose pulp, Kapok, Kenaf, and other natural fibers. This natural treatment gives the cone a slightly rough surface of varying density, which reduces cone resonance, guaranteeing a natural sound with increased transparency and greater detail.
• WOOFER: The woofer cone is made in Italy and benefits from an exclusive sandwich construction technique: two sheets of cellulose pulp are combined with a hi-tech syntactic foam in between them. This low-mass, high-rigidity structure provides fast and powerful sound reproduction while allowing total coherence with the mid-high units.
• STRUCTURAL RIGIDITY: Similar to the Homage Tradition and Reference Collections, the walls are made with eight layers of bended wood, providing the cabinet with extreme rigidity. Inside the cabinet, carefully placed structural ribs are used as reinforcement to reduce vibration and to handle the overall power of the transducers movement.
• REFLEX PORT: The solid piece of extruded aluminum that completes the Stealth Ultraflex™ system, an extremely low-turbulence porting system, is inherited from Homage Tradition models. Favoring the profile of sea waves, the structure facilitates airflow through the duct while controlling its speed and reducing the distortion-causing turbulence.
• CROSSOVER: The crossover network implements Paracross Topology™, making the crossover less sensitive to radio-frequency interference, improving transient response and lowering noise floor. The filtering topology features new exclusive Clarity Cap capacitors, customized for Sonus faber.
• SUPPORTS: Sonus faber completely redesigned the supports, crafting them from solid aluminum bottom plates with steel spikes, taking inspiration from the Homage Tradition and Reference Collections, to guarantee greater strength and solidity

Specifications

• SYSTEM: 3 way, full para-aperiodic vented box “Stealth Ultraflex”, floorstanding loudspeaker system.
• TWEETER: H28 XTR3, Neodymium “cup design” motor system with DAD™, Ø 28 mm
• MIDRANGE: M15 XTR2-04, CCAW wire on a “eddy current free” voice coil, Ø 150 mm
• WOOFER: W18XTR2-04, Ø 180 mm
• CROSSOVER: 250 Hz - 2.500 Hz
• FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 40 Hz – 35.000 Hz
• SENSITIVITY: 88 dB SPL (2.83V/1 m)
• NOMINAL IMPEDANCE: 4 ohm
• SUGGESTED AMPLIFIER POWER OUTPUT: 50 W – 250 W, without clipping
• LONG-TERM MAX INPUT VOLTAGE (IEC 268-5): 22 Vrms
• DIMENSIONS (HXWXD): 40.8 x 14.2 x 16.6 in
• WEIGHT: 30.7 Kg ea – net weight; 67.6 Ib ea – net weight