Zu audio Soul Supreme vs Prana Fidelity Bhava

If wanting American assembled, the Ascend Acoustics Sierra Tower with RAAL upgrade, one of the best out there <$5000, and it’s 90dB sensitive (Soul Supreme is 91.5dB, the Prana is 89.5dB), so unless you sit far, it’ll get loud enough.

I know you have tubes, but Zu’s only exist as a compromise for people with tubes, focusing on easy loads and that’s it:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/zu-audio-soul-supreme-loudspeaker-measurements
Poor imaging/soundstage, poor vertical dispersion, and the treble is “loose”.

Don’t know much about the Prana, but you are bound to have midrange leakage out of that port.

Midrange leakage? Audiophiles have a lot of phobias, but I've never heard of that one.

@roxy54

Really? Look at most any Stereophile measurements of a ported speaker, the sound coming out of the port can sometimes be very loud, which is why most bookshelves are rear ported (mine are front-ported, but are a T-line so it’s less of an issue), and why most front ported towers have the port near the floor.

As an example, the PSB Imagine T3:
https://www.stereophile.com/images/816PSBT3fig3.jpg

The red line is the port, you can see at ~800Hz it’s only ~10dB below the woofer. 
 
Unlike most audiophile “phobias” or beliefs, this one actually has merit, though it of course is whole-fully dependent on the speaker in question.

M
I appreciate your comments.  How do you reconcile the Herb Reichert review of the Soul Supreme and the measurements reported?  It would seem to be a bit of a disconnect.
M

I have heard both at RMAF. I know audio is subjective, so this is my opinion only, but the Prana speaker to my ears sounds more like music than the Zu. Zu (again subjective), to me, sounds like cardboard. But they sell a lot of speakers, so I suppose they are doing something right.
Each time I’ve been to RMAF, the Prana room was in my top 3 for sound. I can’t recall the others at this time.
Prana does something special; there’s a ‘soul’ to their sound that eludes many others.