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KEF LS50 Meta Review (Speaker)
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restorer-john
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Some beer and bbq, perfect.
Mmm. Beer. Bbq. Mmmm
Kell has a target: sell.KEF may disagree that they are desktop speakers
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The audiophiles buy a speaker for the decoration, the price and what stereophile write:The sound is not a subject.
The asr measurements tell you what?
If you had a point it passed me.
What does the asr measurements tell you?
restorer-john
Grand Contributor
Look at his absolutely stupid "lifestyle" image:
The speakers aren't remotely in line (look at the tile lines). There's no wires to the speakers, the turntable or the system. There's a CD player and what looks like a tuner. Where's the amplifier?
Kent Engineering and Foundry. Now owned by GP (gold peak- the shi#bag batteries you'd get for free in the box...) and now of course, made in China. What a joke.
The speakers aren't remotely in line (look at the tile lines). There's no wires to the speakers, the turntable or the system. There's a CD player and what looks like a tuner. Where's the amplifier?
Kent Engineering and Foundry. Now owned by GP (gold peak- the shi#bag batteries you'd get for free in the box...) and now of course, made in China. What a joke.
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A speaker thats good for nearfield. If it comes to far field, some would say there is not enough ummpff in the bass department to satisfy.
Like @amirm the basshead
. Couse if they had enough ummpff, he had given the soccer panther.
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tiles are very rarely placed straight. if you look at that corner next to the bean bag it's more obvious.
Hi, I’m also in the U.K. Can I ask where you bought these?
That if they are used on a stand against a wall like in the picture you will have a perfectly acceptable Hi-Fi speaker covering the most of the musical audio spectrum. The measurement we see are 4 Pi, the picture shows the speakers in a 2 Pi situation. One expects at least 3dB boost around 50Hz, which lift the bass just enough to cover the low end of the most musical instruments. I can live with not hearing the occasional E1 played on a piano or double bass and certainly don't care about the C0 of an organ which is even forbidden to be played these days!
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digitalfrost
Major Contributor
And a huge window at the side without any curtains. I understand they point the speaker straight for the picture, but angling them in here is a nobrainer.
tecnogadget
Addicted to Fun and Learning
That this is a great speaker.
bloodshoteyed
Major Contributor
that's what's been bothering me about this pic....
whoever laid those tiles should have his hands broken (preferably multiple times)
A great speaker haven't distortion in bass frequencies.
Thats all depending on how loud you like to listen.
restorer-john
Grand Contributor
I must be from another world.
A tiler that cannot lay tiles perfectly in any shaped room isn't a true tradesman to me. The tiler that laid large (40x40cm) square tiles in our octagonal 20 square room did it perfectly. I mean down to the millimetre.
Not only that, perfectly flat and not a single void under a single tile. Still amazes me.
It is definitely NOT a desktop speaker.
I heard the original LS50 with Arcam amplification in rooms as big as 30m2 and with the listening distance as far as 5m. No problem. In fact, I have never seen the LS50s being set up less than 3m away from the audience in all shows I have come across them.
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