wkloppen
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On monday evening a tweeter of the Kef Q65.2 suddenly stopped producing sound. Unmounting the mid/high end unicorn speaker removing the the tweeter it soon became clear the ground wire which leads from the inner housing to the coil was broken and luckily the wire wind coil itself proofed to be ok.
We checked the crossover filter using the other speaker making sure it was indeed the tweeter and not the crossover. Soldering a tiny extension can be daunting for some but with a little patience and steady hands certainly do-able.
Meanwhile the repair we listened to a set of Kef Q5's connected to the same amplifier, a Denon PMA800ne. Although the sound was pretty good it was no match for the Q65.2.
We did a couple of regression tests switching between the speaker sets with various music but the difference was huge. Sources used were streams from Tidal using Audirvana with a dlna renderer (openhome) running on a raspberry PI-4 with a Digo-pro board and then with Coax to the integrated dac in the Denon.
Sound quality experience is obviously subject to individual perception and a lot of other factors but the Q65.2 sounded so much better then the Q5's.....We were glad the repair worked out pretty well.
We checked the crossover filter using the other speaker making sure it was indeed the tweeter and not the crossover. Soldering a tiny extension can be daunting for some but with a little patience and steady hands certainly do-able.
Meanwhile the repair we listened to a set of Kef Q5's connected to the same amplifier, a Denon PMA800ne. Although the sound was pretty good it was no match for the Q65.2.
We did a couple of regression tests switching between the speaker sets with various music but the difference was huge. Sources used were streams from Tidal using Audirvana with a dlna renderer (openhome) running on a raspberry PI-4 with a Digo-pro board and then with Coax to the integrated dac in the Denon.
Sound quality experience is obviously subject to individual perception and a lot of other factors but the Q65.2 sounded so much better then the Q5's.....We were glad the repair worked out pretty well.