KEF Ci200RR-THX In-ceiling/In-Wall Speaker Review

[drodgers]

I got a great deal on four of these (actually the square variety - Ci200RS) — two as ATMOS heights and two as L/R in a secondary room — and I'm really impressed. The bass goes deep, and they're *loud* (I guess I should have expected that with 90dB of sensitivity). I think if you actually put the rated 190w into them, you'd seriously shake your ceiling!

All that, and they're only a little worse at imaging than my LS50 Metas. I'll do some measurements on the L/R pair in a few weeks and see how well they react to EQing.

 

[drodgers]

Just got around to measuring these in my room and they're really flat down to ~55Hz. I think this is the flattest pre-eq measurement I've ever taken. I guess the ceiling mounted position helps to remove unwanted interactions with objects in the room.

The yellow line is an SVS SB1000 Pro sub which I got to fill in the sub-55Hz region (it already has some eq applied). The green/blue lines are the Ci200RS L/R units and they have no eq.

I suspect the huge spike at 9Hz (way lower than the sub!) is a resonance of the ceiling cavity itself.

 

[ban25]

Just got around to measuring these in my room and they're really flat down to ~55Hz. I think this is the flattest pre-eq measurement I've ever taken. I guess the ceiling mounted position helps to remove unwanted interactions with objects in the room.

The yellow line is an SVS SB1000 Pro sub which I got to fill in the sub-55Hz region (it already has some eq applied). The green/blue lines are the Ci200RS L/R units and they have no eq.

I suspect the huge spike at 9Hz (way lower than the sub!) is a resonance of the ceiling cavity itself.

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That looks about right. I cross mine over at 60 Hz.