Sonus Faber Guarneri vs Guarneri Memento

You can find a review of the new Guarneri Memenoto where Ken Kessler from hifinews compared them to the old ones. He claims that there is no doubt that new ones are considerably better.

At the moment I found as follow:

- my Memento has the same center pin inside tweeter as pictured,
- Amati Anniversario tweeter and Auditor M has the same center pin as Guarneri Memento but Auditor M has different front bafle,
- in Italian review from 2006 I found confirmation that old Guarneri Homage uses Dynaudio D28 tweeter,
- in the same review they claim that Guarneri Memento is ring radiator from Scan-Speak.

Hello,
I am appreciating your comments about Guarneri Memento vs. Guarneri Homage speakers.
I am almost decide that Guarneri will be my next speakers. I have auditioned GH at home and was extremely pleased. Also Sonus Faber speakers are makes great synergy with Jadis electronics I have. First I was thinking also about of Amati Anniversario, but these speakers produce such amount of bass that can be too large to my 23 m^2 room.

Could you kindly let me know something more about both Guarneri comparison in terms of bass performance. How large is your room and how the Guarneris perform on bass department in your conditions.

Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Przemek

Recently I have opportunity to see Guarneri Memento disassembled.

There are few interesting observations.

First of all both speakers are custom designed for this project. Woofer is C-Quenze model from Audio Technology (formerly Skaaning). Woofer has high diameter voice coil, the great air gap height and design of the basket extremely sturdy and free of obstructions.

The tweeter is from Scan Speak ring radiator, but it was completely redesigned for Guarneri project. Custom tweeter has a double magnet back and a decompression chamber. As with earlier Guarneri Homage also in Memento tweeter plastic rear element was replaced with piece of wood. Tweeter front panel is also custom designed.

The front panel of the cabinet is made of two elements coupled together by damping material. All cabinet is filled with some kind of wool. It certainly shows that designer of Guarneri Memento has not have only cost saving in mind.

All internal wires are made with silver-palladium Yter cabling.

look here:
www [dot] audiostereo.pl/zalaczniki/1704187_3 [dot] jpg

I have heard that in 2004 GH had modification. Maybe earlier models used Esotar and later Esotec?

BTW This picture was taken in Sonus Faber factory. I have also two pictures of older GH tweeters (without a sticker) and these tweeters looks exactly the same.

There is one more interesting thing - so far I thought that Stradivari Homage, Amati Anniversario and Guarneri Memento uses the same modified Scan Speak ring radiator. I have seen pictures of Stradivari tweeter ang Guarneri Memento tweeter and back of both speakers differ.

Guessing is good and here are the pictures of Stradivari tweeter:
http://www.audiostereo.pl/zalaczniki/1704187_2.jpg

and Guarneri Memento tweeter:
http://www.audiostereo.pl/zalaczniki/1704187_1.jpg

You can easily see how different is the tweeter from standard ring radiator. Front bafle is diferently shaped, magnet is double sized and there is acustical wood chamber.

Semi how abot pictures where claimed Esotar has sticker D28/2 (confirmed in one review) and claimed scan speak ring radiator with different centrer pin and magnet system looking the same as in Vifa?
Is your information based on reviews or other sources?

Daveyf
unfortunately this review is not available on line.
Drop me pm I will email a copy.