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Sonus Faber AIDA
The pinnacle of acoustic immersion.
A reference to Giuseppe Verdi’s timeless opera. Inspired by tradition, reinvented with innovative technology.
A unique project
Born from the heart of Italy's rich musical heritage and artisanal tradition, Aida maintains its typical lute shape with sinuous lines, clad in refined wood and leather. Every curve is deliberate, calculated to enhance both the aesthetic and acoustic experience.
A familiar design, elevated to new heights
While maintaining its captivating design elements, Aida presents upgrades in sound engineering. Its “Silent Case” curved on both sides ensures great control over the energy within the speakers.
The signature warm and involving timber is preserved through Mid and High frequencies that encapsulates the “Voice of Sonus faber”, determined by a 28mm silk dome tweeter and a mid-range with cellulose pulp cone.
UNFORGETTABLE sound
Accurate sound. Wider dynamic range. Aida delivers enhanced bass depth and minimized sound distortion, reducing external noise interference while giving better control over the sound’s dimensionality.
AIDA'S NUANCED ESSENCE
A beauty that seduces with natural shapes.
Embracing cutting-edge sound tech
Aida manages sound complexities with advanced resonance control technology. Its precision crossover ensures smooth transitions between frequencies, preserving the dimensionality of sound and perceived size of the sound-stage.
TUNED MASS DAMPER
The TMD (Tuned Mass Damper) is a device normally used in the biggest world’s skyscrapers and consists in some suspended masses placed inside of the speakers - while vibrating in antiphase, the TMD erases main vibrations and allows a clearer bass reproduction and a better silence reproduction.
Stealth Ultraflex System
This patented system allows a great reduction of the THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) and a better bass extension while eliminating spurious vibration coming from the air passage inside the reflex duct and allowing a reduction of dimensions of acoustic chambers.
Neodymium magnet system
The most radical among the changes between the two generations of Aida is the selection of all-new driver systems, all of them featuring a Neodymium motor system that enhance the “Ultra Dynamic Linearity” characteristic.
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Professional Reviews 94/100
Deliciously Crispy
Sound Quality
95/100
Build Quality
95/100
Value for Money
88/100
Sonus Faber Aida delivers immense, articulate bass, a warmly natural midrange and seamless full-range coherence on a truly grand scale. Audiophilepure highlights its unusually integrated musical performance, while Gramophone praises its wide-open dynamics, tunable soundstage and exceptionally clean low-end slam. It is a lavish reference speaker engineered to make complex music feel effortless.
What Reviewers Are Saying
Pros
Exceptional low-frequency extension combines chest-felt slam with clean detail and no reported muddiness.
Complex multi-driver design is praised for seamless integration and convincing performance across varied music.
Rear Sound Field Shaper allows soundstage size and depth to be tailored to the listening room.
Detailed highs and mids remain warm and refined rather than cold or sterile.
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Cons
Flagship-level pricing makes it a highly exclusive investment.
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 95/100
The supplied reviews describe an exceptionally complete, seamless presentation: powerful and highly controlled at the bottom end, warmly natural through the midrange, and detailed without turning clinical. They also praise a large, believable stage and an unconstrained sense of scale with demanding music.
Bass
97/100
Audiophilepure calls the Aida's low-frequency performance among the best it has heard in the same room, surpassing what it had obtained there from Wilson Alexandria XLF loudspeakers. The supplied Aida II assessment similarly praises chest-felt concert slam with unusually clean detail and no muddiness.
Mid
95/100
Sonus Faber's presentation is described as effortless, warm and involving, with the tweeter/midrange partnership forming its recognisable voice. The Aida II review finds the detailed mids fully integrated rather than cold or sterile, and praises the overall blend across the frequency range.
Treble
94/100
Review material points to detailed, extended high frequencies that remain refined and well blended with the midrange. The Aida II review specifically says the speaker avoids the cold, sterile character sometimes associated with highly detailed highs.
Soundstage Imaging
95/100
Audiophilepure praises the way the complex system hangs together without audible seams, creating a solid and believable musical picture. The Aida II review describes a big stage whose size and depth can be adjusted to suit the room via the rear-firing section.
Dynamics
95/100
Audiophilepure reports sonic thrills and convincing performance across every kind of music it played. The Aida II review calls its dynamics fabulous, saying major energy bursts remain wide open rather than constrained.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
95/100
The Aida is an exceptionally substantial, elaborately engineered loudspeaker, with Italian-made neodymium-equipped drivers, a curved wood/leather/aluminium enclosure, vibration-control systems and a decoupled base. The supplied Aida II review calls the speaker a work of art and finds its cabinet notably inert, with no resonance audible when tapped.
Value for Money
88/100
At roughly $130,000-$140,000 per pair in the supplied reviews, the Aida is plainly a flagship purchase rather than a conventional value proposition. Audiophilepure nevertheless felt its seamless, convincing performance delivered the calibre of experience expected at that price, while the Aida II review found its sound outstanding at $140,000.
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