The only place I could find to audition the Kef Blade 1 meta was Magnolia. I liked the KEF sound but no matter how I got them to move these around in the room, the imaging was horrible, which is what I expected them to be best at. The soundstage never went beyond the two speakers, and closing my eyes, I could easily point to both speakers. I currently have Goldenear Triton1r's and they image great, disappear in the room. My only issues with the GM's is the treble can be a bit harsh at times and the bass could be tighter though they do go very low. I know that there must be something wrong with the set up or equipt being used as the Blades should have imaged better than the GM's based upon their technology. Anyone have a similar experience and/or have these speakers in AZ who would let me hear them set up correctly?
I have experienced the exact same issue with several KEF speakers, I have listened too. LS60, R11, Reference 5.
All the KEFs speakers had the same characteristic, poor centre imagine, no sound stage and the speakers did not disappear. Yet the distortion was very low, tonality was excellent.
Demoed in a hi end retailed with a good room and good electronics.
The same electronics were used to demo Proac's D48R back to back with the Reference 5. Both speakers were position directly beside each other. The Proac's had large sound stage great centre imagine and the speakers disappeared. Sadly the Proacs had poor distortion and poor tonality.
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