Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage vs Extrema

Twilo, the G's do not use a Skanning mid/woofer. They actually use a custom made driver from Audiotechnolgie.
This driver which is from Denmark is specially made for SF and is several times the cost of the Skanning drivers.
What did you hear driving the G's, because since they are so incredibly accurate, this would have a big impact on their performance.

I thought Audio Technology used to be called Skanning, just a name change?

Being a former owner of Extrema and Guarneri, I will say you can't go wrong with either. Personally I will get Guarneri, it's very coherent and refined but does lack bass. I like tube gears, Extrema just doesn't work with tubes and that explains the departure of Extrema. My room is too large for Guarneri to fill, so I settled with Amati.

Audio technology and Skaaning is the same thing
http://www.audiotechnology.dk/iz.asp?id=4|a|132|||

Mr. Skaaning founded audio technology, after Scanspeak also worked for Dynaudio.

to be exact mr Skaning also founded Dynaudio.

As for the Guarneri vs Extrema, it's tough choice if I was to choose and the Extrema was in mint condition I'd pick Extrema.

DaveyF, your right the Skaaning on the Guarneri's is a custom made Skaaning driver.
I was looking at a pic of the Skaaning midbase driver they sell on Madisound.
It looks totally different then the Skaaning midbase driver on the Guarneri's.
I found a really good post by Alex on using a sub or subs with the Guarneri's.
Here's the link.
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/frr.pl?rprea&1045413633&read&3&4&