{"id":1237,"date":"2014-06-03T15:43:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2017-04-30T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T15:44:13","slug":"revealed-a-gorgeous-midrange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/03\/revealed-a-gorgeous-midrange\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;revealed a gorgeous midrange.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stereophile.com\/images\/060314-PranaFidelity7-600.jpg\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yogi Steven Norber of PranaFidelity (above) demmed the new production model of the PranaFidelity Vayu\/fs, 2-way, quasi\u2013line-array loudspeaker ($6950\/pair). With a frequency range of 29Hz\u201422kHz, 8 ohm impedance, and 89.5dB sensitivity, the Vayu\/fs kept company with PranaFidelity&#8217;s Purna 400W amplifier ($8950) and Purna, full-function, balanced preamplifier ($4500\u2013$9950 depending upon options). Cabling was from Audio Conductors.<\/p>\n<p>Playing Fiona Apple&#8217;s <i>The Songs of Cy Coleman<\/i> on a Brinkmann Bardo table with either the Kuzma 4Point arm and Miyajima Kansui cartridge or Graham Phantom Supreme 2 tonearm with Dynavector XV1S cartridge, the sound was lovely and warm. A return visit, which came after a combination of speaker repositioning and port trimming addressed the sonic repercussions of the hotel&#8217;s overly flexible walls, revealed a gorgeous midrange and fine balance when the speaker&#8217;s midrange setting was finally moved to &#8220;normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereophile.com\/content\/show-your-mark-get-set-go\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color:#00abf3 !important;\" class=\"button \">Go To Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yogi Steven Norber of PranaFidelity (above) demmed the new production model of the PranaFidelity Vayu\/fs, 2-way, quasi\u2013line-array loudspeaker ($6950\/pair). With a frequency range of 29Hz\u201422kHz, 8 ohm impedance, and 89.5dB sensitivity, the Vayu\/fs kept company with PranaFidelity&#8217;s Purna 400W amplifier ($8950) and Purna, full-function, balanced preamplifier ($4500\u2013$9950 depending upon options). Cabling was from Audio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,2,3,17,22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amplifier","category-preamplifier","category-press","category-reviews","category-speakers","category-stereophile","category-t-h-e-show"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stereophile-logo-xsterlogo-o_logo-e1467202023249.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}