{"id":1400,"date":"2018-11-04T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2018-11-04T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T19:43:11","slug":"the-absolute-sound-rmaf-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/04\/the-absolute-sound-rmaf-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Absolute Sound &#8211; RMAF 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption\" src=\"http:\/\/tas.zeitpress.com\/media\/articles\/images\/Quint_Pranafidelity.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Denver-based PranaFidelity demonstrated the robust stand-mounted Bhava loudspeaker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>PranaFidelity Bhava<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PranaFidelity<\/strong>, a company that builds its loudspeakers and electronics in Denver, demonstrated the robust stand-mounted\u00a0<strong>Bhava\u00a0<\/strong>($4950). Designer Steven Norber, previously a principal in EDGE electronics, put the new speaker through its paces. The Bhava employs a 30mm tweeter with a neodymium magnet and closed rear-chamber construction; there are two 6&#8243; long-throw woofers positioned both above and below the high-frequency driver, a \u201csymmetrical two-way\u201d configuration. Norber offered that there are adjustable \u201ctuning circuits\u201d in the Bhava\u2019s crossover. The Bhava\u2019s eight-sided enclosure\u2014the show sample was painted a sexy Alpha Romeo Red\u2014is fabricated from a treated MDF material called Medite. The loudspeaker is ported to the front, which can potentially make positioning the Bhava near a room boundary less problematic. Sonically, the speaker was notably uncolored: Listening to\u00a0<em>Adagio d\u2019Albinoni,<\/em>a perennial audio show favorite, Gary Karr\u2019s string bass, operating in its highest register, didn\u2019t sound like a woozy cello.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theabsolutesound.com\/articles\/rmaf-2018-loudspeakers-under-20k\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color:#00abf3 !important;\" class=\"button \">Go To Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver-based PranaFidelity demonstrated the robust stand-mounted Bhava loudspeaker. PranaFidelity Bhava PranaFidelity, a company that builds its loudspeakers and electronics in Denver, demonstrated the robust stand-mounted\u00a0Bhava\u00a0($4950). Designer Steven Norber, previously a principal in EDGE electronics, put the new speaker through its paces. The Bhava employs a 30mm tweeter with a neodymium magnet and closed rear-chamber construction; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1404,"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":[18,19,2,4,17,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amplifier","category-preamplifier","category-press","category-rmaf","category-speakers","category-the-absolute-sound"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The-Absolute-Sound-logo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","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=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pranafidelity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}