I have not owned these two models but I did have a back-to-back demo of the Sonetto Vs and Olympica Nova IIs in the same room, with the same gear.
Based on that demo, I felt the price of the Olympica IIs would be very difficult to justify, considering how similar the Sonetto Vs performed. However, a potential bottleneck was the Arcam integrated that was employed in that shoutout. The Arcam is an excellent integrated for its price but one has to question whether the gap between these speakers would have been greater under different circumstances. However, despite the “mid-fi” amplification, I still expected a larger gap in performance. The Sonetto Vs were at least 90% as good as the Olympicas in my demo, with the latter having greater scale and output capability. Had they been priced the same, it’d probably be a tossup depending on whether they’d have to serve double duty for both music and HT.
Based on that demo, I felt the price of the Olympica IIs would be very difficult to justify, considering how similar the Sonetto Vs performed. However, a potential bottleneck was the Arcam integrated that was employed in that shoutout. The Arcam is an excellent integrated for its price but one has to question whether the gap between these speakers would have been greater under different circumstances. However, despite the “mid-fi” amplification, I still expected a larger gap in performance. The Sonetto Vs were at least 90% as good as the Olympicas in my demo, with the latter having greater scale and output capability. Had they been priced the same, it’d probably be a tossup depending on whether they’d have to serve double duty for both music and HT.