Sanus Verus company was founded and dedicated to represent Refinement speakers, which was the already finished creation. It’s not just a company trying to develop various speakers and then target them for various market segments. To make something more bigger or smaller, cheaper or more expensive makes no sense from sonic performance perspective. Size or price should not lead to performance prediction when auditioning Sanus Verus speakers - they are small physically, but should not be ranked to small speakers class by mistake - technical (objectively measured) and sonic subjective performance abilities lay beyond common sense of general engineering understanding and usual practical design on that size (or price range) of speakers.

What is unusual in Sanus Verus speakers, it's development philosophy. While most speakers are build in usual implied manner - designing enclosures to selected drivers units and then developing crossovers to merge them, Sanus Verus starts backward - with almost concrete crossover topology in mind (which in our opinion offers unique sonic properties) and then slowly started experimenting with suitable drivers for this configuration. This consumed much more time than we expected, but it was worth every single minute, and this is what makes Sanus Verus speakers sonic properties unique. It's relatively easy to take best performance drivers units and design excellent speakers around them, but we believe not only in quality colours (which by itself is just instrument/tool), but rather in whole picture. Using best colours will not guarantee anything more than high quality picture. Like in painting art, music lovers primarily want not only technical performance, but also emotional connection to music from their speakers. There is no point of having high performance speakers when it does not excite listener to enjoy recreated musical event with a great emotional expierence.

To unite ability of emotional contact interacting together with high performance sound is our primary goal at Sanus Verus.

Sanus Verus speakers development core based on CTC (coherent transition crossover). Before 2005 - when CTC was founded- we tried different crossover topologies – active, passive types in various configurations:

1. A true 1st order crossover without any correction circuits ( for that purpose we designed custom drivers- there was no tweeter in market to work with real 1st order electrical crossover without impedance correction circuit)
2. Corrected 1st order crossover.
3. 2nd,3rd,4th order crossovers in various transfer and time alignments.
4. Active analog crossovers

Over time we realized general crossover sonic tendencies (which did not changed with different designs)- a crossover with few parts and gentle slopes in general had more effortless,spacious, dynamic, lively, natural and coherent sound, letting speakers “disappear” more easily. Higher slopes xovers,on the other hand, had better focus, midrange palpability and did not let images “crash” at more complex recordings. With some efforts over time it was possible to reduce some general flaws of higher order crossovers, but it was just reduction, not elimination. In spite worse measured and heard performance low slope crossovers had some subjective “effortless” sound which was just more “right” to ears. At some point there was clear that it was impossible “to get everything” going in traditional way and also confess fact that we were going in circles. We started experiments then in quite radical way and founded some interesting combination of passive crossover implementation which we named coherent transition crossover (CTC).

CTC have quite unique characteristic common to low and high order crossovers. It‘s something between these two. Technicaly CTC is based on series type of passive crossover, but its implementation is unique in several ways, and one of them is the way both drivers and crossover components interact together. With only 4 discrete components forming high/ low pass function in whole speaker crossover Colibrea have more than 24db/oct slopes instead of expected 6db/oct roll off. We also should note that this happens in both drivers full acoustical output range. The nature of CTC also enabled to implement some other unusual decisions which determined basic of unique speakers sonic signature.

A further each CTC we made are encapsulated and potted in box to prevent from vibrations (under extreme conditions inside and outside speakers) and also industrial espionage. We don’t claim it’s an absolute revolution, but we also do not want to be responsible for poor implementation of CTC(which is realy hard to implement in speaker development with ordinary drivers) , degrading its name and Sanus Verus team efforts.

Sonic value of any high-end speaker cannot be measured, weighted and expressed to exact value. And actually there is no need for this. Financial value of a speaker (to manufacturers, dealers or customers) depends on multiple criteria, like direct expenses (material costs, labor expenditures, taxes, logistics), research and design expenses (development time), as well as marketing strategic- in fact, there is so many variables, that it is almost impossible to tell how these numbers are shared in a particular case. In real high-end audio industry (where manufacturers offers performance, not luxury style products) the only limit of final price is competitors products performance abilities. Almost any profit margin can be added to exceptional products-there will always be passionable audiophiles who seek absolute perfection. But unfortunately, this will limit the audience of such products.

Sanus Verus design philosophy was stated earlier. Our marketing strategy complements design philosophy in different manner - we want to share Sanus Verus sound widely and be pleased by our customers emotions. Knowing fact that our creation brings delight, pleasure and even maybe joyful tears in the eyes during listening - its highest degree of satisfaction and reward. Even in commercial activity field.

Colibrea is the result of 5 years intensive efforts to create a loudspeaker, that would set benchmark on its own class. We do not compromise or rush to complete it in any way. To create something which is good enough or competetive is not a desirable goal at Sanus Verus.

Our smallest speaker can reproduce almost full scale of recorded material and let us enjoy musical experience in a way that is unheard in speakers of same size. It was a real challenge to make Colibrea sound powerful, fast, transparent, open and at the same time delicate, involving and relaxing - just the same as live music. However, most important sonic feature is that properly positioned they are able to recreate musical event ambience with great sense of space, and completely “disappear” - leaving only “opened window” to enjoy a musical act. Without this we cannot “cheat” our brains, no matter how good timbre, details and other sonic features are.

Colibrea achieve high enough sound levels and let enjoy dynamic contract passages, keeping listener in excited, yet non- strained condition. An example could be live wind band orchestra- no matter- in philharmonic, or marching band in street, it sounds loud, exciting, and still - without strain to ears after hours of listening.

Rea is 2.5 way loudspeaker, it shares same CTC crossover core and further extends Colibrea sonic properties.