KEF Blade Two Meta Review

[kyuu]

Most important thing for a challenging space (any space, really) is having some form of measurement and EQ to knock down the inevitable bass peaks whether due to SBIR or room modes. Placement can have an effect, of course, but unless you can pull the speakers WAY out into the room the best way to minimize SBIR nulls is to place the speakers as close to the room boundaries as possible.

 

[SoySalsaPicante]

And then by doing so, you sacrifice bass headroom because you're surrendering boundary reinforcement of low frequencies. Ideally, as kyuu is saying, use EQ/room correction at the main listening position to smooth out response after taking advantage of placement to minimize dips/nulls. You can always cut back on energy, but adding energy is futile as it cancels itself out (the reason for the nulls/dips in the first place most of the time, especially at or below the room's Schroeder frequency).

 

[madFloyd]

I will use REW at some point. I’m still researching electronics and will make sure I have some form of EQ if only for digital.

 

[hvbias]

If anyone is looking for a gift for the KEF lover that has it all (in other words a Blade Meta owner ) I recently picked up Ken Kessler's book on KEF, it's just as good as his book on Quad which is pretty darn impressive.