Exterior Design and Functionality

The exterior design has been left intact:

Black color, glossy surfaces, and a beautifully shaped decorative door. As I’ve said above, it was wise on the developer’s part not to change such a good-looking faзade. Like in the previous version of the case, the front panel is the focal point of the whole composition:

The door itself has been borrowed from the Tsunami Dream with certain modifications. It is not plastic anymore as it used to be on the original Soprano we tested before. The milled wave-shaped plate made from 2mm aluminum looks superb while the chrome insert is in contrast with the dark color scheme and divides the door in two parts visually. Notwithstanding its pretty appearance…

…this insert is made of plastic as you can easily feel with your fingers – it lacks the coolness of metal. Not that it matters much considering that the rest of the front panel is made of ordinary lacquered plastic. As opposed to the decorative door, the front panel design is somewhat different now.

The bays and the Power and Reset buttons haven’t changed:

The buttons might have been altered, however. They are far from perfect. The main change is the air intake that has become far more functional.

The total intake area is larger now and the new square-shaped design looks much better than two rows of horizontal slits as in the original versions of the Soprano and Tsunami.