Behind the scenes at Sonus Faber: hi-fi at its most artisanal

Hi-fi manufacturers will be quick to tell you of their passion for music – that’s fundamentally the basis of their (and our) admiration for hi-fi, after all. And it’s easy to believe such sentiments from Sonus Faber when, upon arriving at the Italian company’s headquarters in Arcugnano, Vicenza, we are faced with a building whose roof mimics the curvature of a violin. It’s a fitting ode to an instrument that has itself played an instrumental role in the brand’s four-decade history of speaker production.

It was ten years after its inception that Sonus Faber created its first high-end speakers with wooden, lute-shaped cabinets. The 1993 Guarneri Homage standmounter was the debutante for an ‘Homage’ collection (named after the most distinguished families