As opposed to an unshaven dude sitting outside in his dirty undies on an empty beer case with a nearly empty whiskey bottle in his hand broiling half a cow on an oil barrel bbq while having an old boombox at full volume blaring nearby.
Then it's easy to change them! Just play some Gospel of the Horns (yeah, I like Australian bands too!) and they will suddenly become boom boxes!
I suppose they dictated that horizontally small visuals,I can't think of anything else.
John I don’t know but I can ask, quite an interesting history of their coax’s here,
uk.kef.com
One way to avoid such mishaps would be to only allow negative gain on PEQs - still perfectly good for room EQ and even for basic tone shaping - but much less dangerous to the drivers
Technically the Preference Score is even higher than the Blade 1 Meta, their flagship (other than Muon that is).
I forgot to quote you before, but I like to see that I´m not the only one missing the capacity to go multichnnel on the LS. Add Dirac support and decoding for a "lifestyle" home, living room size, theatre.Technically the Preference Score is even higher than the Blade 1 Meta, their flagship (other than Muon that is).
Tonality: 7.5
Bass extension: 24Hz
Though Blade 1 Meta should be better suited for higher SPLs due to its 4 x 9" side woofers, for 7x the price.
I hope those are all passive, any competent active should protect itself from such abuse. PEQ and passive speakers is open to all sort of issues, and the manufacturers have no control over it, but in an active they have complete control to prevent damage, so it's the right environment to offer it.
How do I unsubscribe before the thread is created? You cannot unsee things, however much you might want to.
I think we have established, that the KEFs are not for the "drink till you drop strippers galore parties...."The tweeter voice coil former and the woofer voice coil former construction, Keith.
I have no idea what they use now, but that graphic (perhaps deliberately deceptive with omissions for commercial IP purposes) shows no tweeter VC former and who-knows-what for the woofer. Could be aluminium, brass, kapton or even paper/cardboard. Philips used paper for decades. Even Yamaha used pulp based formers for years in the pursuit of less moving mass (but way more failed drivers). These days, everyone uses some high tech former, but they run up against physics.
Formers, material choices, tolerances and construction all determine how much heat can be dissipated into the magnetic structure on a long term basis. Something companies like JBL got right many decades ago.
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People are buying super powerful amplifiers these days. 200wpc is hardly 'high power' in 2023. And speakers are less efficient. The power has to go somewhere when you run the system hard and many of these wonderful sounding KEFs just can't absorb the dissipation required.
It's true of a lot of small to medium loudspeakers and not a criticism, just an observation.
And @Purité Audio - Keith, have a great Christmas, you are always an excellent member of ASR.
From the KEF speakers I have and have owned, they typically use aluminium. I don´t know it that applies to the LS60´s, though.The tweeter voice coil former and the woofer voice coil former construction, Keith.
I have no idea what they use now, but that graphic (perhaps deliberately deceptive with omissions for commercial IP purposes) shows no tweeter VC former and who-knows-what for the woofer. Could be aluminium, brass, kapton or even paper/cardboard. Philips used paper for decades. Even Yamaha used pulp based formers for years in the pursuit of less moving mass (but way more failed drivers). These days, everyone uses some high tech former, but they run up against physics.
Formers, material choices, tolerances and construction all determine how much heat can be dissipated into the magnetic structure on a long term basis. Something companies like JBL got right many decades ago.
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People are buying super powerful amplifiers these days. 200wpc is hardly 'high power' in 2023. And speakers are less efficient. The power has to go somewhere when you run the system hard and many of these wonderful sounding KEFs just can't absorb the dissipation required.
It's true of a lot of small to medium loudspeakers and not a criticism, just an observation.
And @Purité Audio - Keith, have a great Christmas, you are always an excellent member of ASR.
Naaah. John typically draws a smile from me on his posts; whatever he brings, I´ll probably laugh.
So,from all that I read classical should listened at about 75-80db SPL average tops with LP @3 meters on these,I'm I right?
I did watch it and I listened to Erin saying about 99db at 1 meter real SPL (so not enough for classical peaks) despite what KEF specs and most importantly that a sub wouldn't help either so they would go louder.
