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Expensive speakers that doesn't tell a story will not sell, generally speaking. And the Blades do tell a very impressive story and tick a lot of boxes, if you ask me: - solid engineering as the measurements clearly indicates; - point source design via uni-Q driver and not to forget the...

No Klippel; I asked them the same thing when I was invited at their Kent factory. They have a smallish anechoic chamber for mid-high freq measurements and use ground plane for bass

Bass and midrange are very similar; however I definitely prefer the new tweeter response which I can lower with Dirac and have some headroom. Although in my treated room, with minimum toe-in, I don't find it offensive on most recordings...there are some exceptions. Mot likely I will only address...

These have already been posted here; but is not the same quality/resolution as measurements from Amir, Erin, Soundstage, Audioholics ... etc But of course they are better than nothing, that's for sure!

Unfortunately you cant find many measurements for Gold and Platinum .... don't think this will change anytime soon

I attended to a conference in Austria 2 months ago together with Mr Barton. What an amazing person/engineer/music lover! Of course I embraced the opportunity and discussed everything audio related with him: speaker design, driver materials, active vs passive, measurements, multichannel, room...

This one included? Or this is the exception?

Still investigating the 1.8khz raise; don't think is the speakers itself, because the near field measurements don't show this peak...will report back when I will find the cause.

After spending the last months with the Platinum 200 3G, I can now share my 2cents. Firstly, it's safe to say that they are very good speakers ... SOTA? maybe not, but close and good enough for me to buy them; at least until I move into a bigger room. My current room is around 22m2 and they fit...

That sounds encouraging Any HDMI/CEC/ARC handshake problems and glitches?

Did you received the product? Any thoughts?

Yes, I did. Amazing sound as one can imagine, great envelopment and impact from the subwoofers. But at the end of the day, maked me happy with my system at a fraction of the cost:)

For my future home cinema room I was debating for front/rear heights (Auro 3D) between these and LS50Meta. For whatever reason I thought that R8A Meta will be to small/non-linear/high distortion at bigger volumes compared with LS50 Meta. But now that I saw the measurement, they do make a lot of...

He already did 2 months ago in the Kef R Meta Series Release topic: "Just to make you aware, the R8 META is a certified by Dolby for use as an Atmos Upward-Firing Speaker. It's designed to hit strict frequency response and directivity targets specified by Dolby so it works optimally in this...

The R Meta line is something else; if we get this kind of distortions from the baby R8a, the bigger brothers should be almost textbook... and not for uber expensive prices. Thanks for this Amir! hope you will get the R7 or R11 to see what more we can get in terms of performance :)