Sonus faber's Duetto offers Bluetooth and Wi-Fi music-streaming abilities from a pair of the Italian company's trademark Lute-shaped wooden cabinets, with the main giveaway being the custom-designed heatsinks on the rear of these classy-looking bookshelf speakers.

The Duetto's spec sheet starts off fairly standardly, with the standmount loudspeakers being a two-way vented box design featuring a brand new 0.7-inch silk dome tweeter and, crossing over at 1900Hz, a newly developed 5.25-inch paper pulp mid-bass driver. The mid/bass unit sits in Sonus faber's fresh “Organic Basket”, designed to reduce vibrations and ease the level of airflow the driver produces. From here, there are changes to the usual Sonus faber playbook.

Chief of Design Livio Cucuzza told StereoNET:

Duetto is a true Sonus faber stereo system, blending 40 years of premium speaker design, Italian style and materials with modern technology and streaming features.

Firstly, the drivers are powered by a pair of onboard amplifiers with a 100W Class A/B amp assigned to the tweeter and a 205W Class D amp for the mid-bass driver. According to Sonus faber, the result is a frequency response of 37Hz – 30kHz and 105 dB @1m maximum SPL.

Direct control is via the Senso touch-sensitive interface on top of the speaker, which is made of leather, Sonus faber being Sonus faber. You can direct set-up, control volume, and switch between inputs and connections through this touch panel. Naturally, you can also use Sonus faber's app for more sofa-based conducting.

Alongside Wi-Fi and Bluetooth aptX HD, wired options include Ethernet, HDMI and optical digital inputs and even a built-in moving magnet phono input for a turntable (which is also switchable with line-level). Finally, there is also a subwoofer output should you want a bit of extra bottom-end.

Streaming options include AirPlay, Chromecast, TIDAL and Spotify on top of being Roon Ready.

The link between the speakers is via UWB (Ultra Wide Band) technology, which, we are told, guarantees a very wide frequency spectrum to send data signals at high speed and mitigates latency and interference in the connection between the two speakers.

Sonus faber's Duetto is available from November finished in Walnut or Graphite wood veneer, priced at £3,490/ €3,999 per pair, with the optional speaker stands costing £649/ €749.

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