I know it's an old post, but I can contribute to any future questions now that I own a pair of the Rethm Bhaava speakers. They are effing awesome. I was too challenged by what amplifier and preamp to partner them with. David256 knows his stuff. I had too many choices and seemed to go through all the combinations I had at my disposal until I found in a the corner of my room my Vu's 300b monoblocks and Uesugi Ubros preamp (both - tube rectified) and everything fell right into place. These speakers will not disappoint, but you have to be synergetically correct with the component choice.
Any Rethm Bhaava owners?
I'm wondering if anyone out there owns the Rethm Bhaava and can share their experience with them. I've always owned Magnepans, currently have 1.7's. The down side of Magnepan's is that they want lots of power and really don't sound their best if not played at full concert level ... added amplifier $$$'s and fraying of spouse nerves. I heard the Bhaava at CAF, one of the very few box speakers that had no cabinet sound coloration and an authentic low end. It's design principles of a horn loaded unidriver section for the top range and an isobaric floor firing low bass driver made sense as a way to keep coherency. Overall the sound was lovely, authoritative and got excellent resolution at "speaking" loudness levels. My main reservation was that it didn't seem to have "snap", hardness on percussive transients which was hard to sort out given that I was unfamiliar with all the other components in the playback chain. Anyone else familiar with these as compared to planar or electrostatic speakers?