@stephenwerner During my demo, the Nova 3 and V
Both demonstrate the Sonus Faber house sound I am not a fan of.
Initially was a fine presentation on sections of the song that had a lot of harmonics but became grating over time.started becoming edgy, clanky, piercing, edgy and clenched sounding and this was with the prescribed amps being used in the demo. Dealer said those amps "matched the synergy"
Unfortunately, they didn’t to my ears. It initially always starts as a wow microscopic view on the overtones, brass instruments and sounded clear but with each song I played, that colouration lost its novelty fast.
Never liked them. Can wow on first listen but stay with it and it becomes a niggling annoyance in the upper registers of frequency response.
That’s just my singular opinion though as I feel you can do much better for the asking price unless you don't index for tonal balance. Others may chime in.