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BRAM ACOUSTICS · BARCELONA

Sentir la música, entendre el so.

BRAM Acoustics is an independent high-fidelity brand founded in Barcelona. We design loudspeakers with an approach that brings together acoustic knowledge, design culture and musical sensitivity.

A VISION OF HIGH FIDELITY

Knowledge is part of listening.

The more we understand how sound is created, recorded and reproduced, the richer our experience of music can become.

At BRAM, we design loudspeakers and share the knowledge behind them. We believe that understanding how a system works, or taking part in building it, is also part of the pleasure of listening.

THE NAME

BRAM. Sound before music.

BRAM evokes the Spanish «bramido», a roar: the sound of a storm, the cry of an animal, a force making itself heard across the landscape. A sound that belongs to nature and has moved us since long before there was any technology to reproduce it.

We chose this name because it expresses our relationship with sound: a physical and emotional experience that we want to understand and reproduce with all the precision that knowledge allows.

OUR APPROACH

Rigour serves a purpose.

We design every product through acoustic knowledge, bringing together form, construction and sonic behaviour.

We measure, listen and review our decisions because our aim goes beyond sound technical results: we want to create musical reproduction that can move the listener.

Rigour
We study, measure and listen to understand how each system behaves and to give our decisions a sound technical foundation.
Design
We integrate acoustics, form, materials and construction from the outset. Aesthetics are not added at the end.
Knowledge
We share what we learn so that listeners can better understand their equipment and, if they wish, take part in building it.
Opus I prototype v11 in unfinished MDF, with the enclosure layers visible along the side.
Prototype photograph · Opus I v11 in MDF, before finishing

FROM IDEAS TO OBJECTS

Design takes shape.

An idea becomes a product when it can be drawn, built and tested. At BRAM, our work spans digital design, manufacturing and listening, supported by collaborations with specialist professionals and workshops.

Explore the process
Former factory tower, brick chimney and palm tree on Carrer del Marroc in Barcelona's Poblenou district.
Photograph · Barcelona · Credit: Victoriano Javier Tornel García · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

BARCELONA · MEDITERRANEAN CULTURE

Designing from the Mediterranean.

BRAM was born in Barcelona, a city where industrial tradition lives alongside an intense design culture. The Mediterranean has been a land of architects, artists and makers who found new ways of understanding matter, space and beauty. Gaudí, Dalí, Miró and Picasso are part of that cultural legacy.

From that setting we develop our own way of understanding high fidelity. We design loudspeakers where acoustic engineering and formal expression meet, with the attention to detail and the build quality we demand of every project.

Portrait of Josep Maria Marimon.
Josep Maria Marimon · Founder of BRAM Acoustics

THE ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT

A vision takes shape.

Josep Maria Marimon is a designer, lecturer and high-fidelity communicator. His career brings together design, technology and listening culture. After years of sharing experiences and knowledge with enthusiasts and professionals, he founded BRAM to develop products of his own. The brand draws on that experience while establishing an independent identity and a vision for the future.

OUR FIRST CREATION

Opus I is the beginning.

Opus I is the first expression of our approach to high fidelity: acoustic knowledge, original design and a construction process that can be explained. It marks the beginning of a journey we intend to pursue with the same principles.

Discover Opus I
Three-quarter view of Opus I: black front baffle with woofer and tweeter, and a curved body finished in white lacquer.
3D visualisation · Opus I