Audio Analogue Puccini Anniversary

摘要

What is it with the Italians? While resisting the temptation to indulge in a Kessleresque reverie extending from fine wines to Lambrettas to classic Bugattis. I have to admit that Italian designers and engineers have long had the ability to come up with something - well, different. Maybe it's the connection with great music, but Italian-made audio has always had that ability to set itself apart, from the relatively simple Audio Analogue Puccini amplifier, the 20th birthday of which is celebrated in the £2.999 Puccini Anniversary here, right up to behemoths such as the massive Sonus faber Fenice speakers [HFN Feb '11]. These were launched amid much hoo-hah in Venice some years back and then quietly renamed as The Sonus faber when some legal obstacle to the name cropped up - in itself, a rather Italian story.