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Franco Serblin
Website:https://www.francoserblin.it/
Est. year: 1983
Franco Serblin is an Italian loudspeaker brand from Vicenza that carries the name of Gianfranco Serblin, the designer who founded Sonus Faber in 1983 and left it in 2006. After leaving he spent about five years on a single new design, the Ktêma, released around 2011. Serblin died in Vicenza in March 2013, and the brand now continues his work as a small, specialist maker of compact and floorstanding speakers built around solid wood cabinets.
Range & what it's known for
The current range is short. The Ktêma sits at the top, the Accordo is a compact two-way stand-mount sold as the Accordo Essence, Accordo Goldberg and Accordo Unica, and the Lignea is the smallest model. Serblin liked small speakers because they sit discreetly in a room and called his approach miniaturization to expand. The Accordo shows how this works in practice - a 29 mm silk-dome tweeter made to order by Ragnar Lian, a 150 mm handmade paper-cone mid-woofer with a symmetrical motor and a minimal crossover sit in an arch-shaped solid wood enclosure in walnut or grey hardwood, decoupled with aluminium-magnesium parts. Rated sensitivity is 87 dB at 4 ohms, and the maker asks for at least 20 W of amplification.
Who owns it and where it's made
Production runs under licence through Laboratorium, a company owned by Massimiliano Favella, Franco Serblin's son-in-law. Favella has led development since 2013 and is responsible for the Lignea, Accordo Essence and Accordo Goldberg. The cabinets are built by hand in the Vicenza area, and the speakers are sold through distributors in more than 40 countries across Europe, Asia, the Americas and Oceania.
The lineup in this catalog
Loudspeakers only, from about EUR 10,000 to well over EUR 40,000 for the models listed here.
Who it's for
A home where speakers should not dominate the room is the setting for these compact, hand-finished Italian models. The Lignea covers small rooms and desktop or shelf use, the Accordo versions form the core of the range for a stand-mounted system, and the Ktêma serves owners after the full design that Serblin himself spent five years developing.
Range & what it's known for
The current range is short. The Ktêma sits at the top, the Accordo is a compact two-way stand-mount sold as the Accordo Essence, Accordo Goldberg and Accordo Unica, and the Lignea is the smallest model. Serblin liked small speakers because they sit discreetly in a room and called his approach miniaturization to expand. The Accordo shows how this works in practice - a 29 mm silk-dome tweeter made to order by Ragnar Lian, a 150 mm handmade paper-cone mid-woofer with a symmetrical motor and a minimal crossover sit in an arch-shaped solid wood enclosure in walnut or grey hardwood, decoupled with aluminium-magnesium parts. Rated sensitivity is 87 dB at 4 ohms, and the maker asks for at least 20 W of amplification.
Who owns it and where it's made
Production runs under licence through Laboratorium, a company owned by Massimiliano Favella, Franco Serblin's son-in-law. Favella has led development since 2013 and is responsible for the Lignea, Accordo Essence and Accordo Goldberg. The cabinets are built by hand in the Vicenza area, and the speakers are sold through distributors in more than 40 countries across Europe, Asia, the Americas and Oceania.
The lineup in this catalog
Loudspeakers only, from about EUR 10,000 to well over EUR 40,000 for the models listed here.
Who it's for
A home where speakers should not dominate the room is the setting for these compact, hand-finished Italian models. The Lignea covers small rooms and desktop or shelf use, the Accordo versions form the core of the range for a stand-mounted system, and the Ktêma serves owners after the full design that Serblin himself spent five years developing.
