No he is not the one. I have seen this comment many times in many forums. I personally feel it bit bright in upper mids too. The R11 is dark, as the bass is quite few dbs above the mid and treble and same is the story with blade 2 meta.
For example I have a room which is 5,5 x 3,5 meters in my basement. Recently due to lack of space for my toddler in the living room I am planning on moving everything to this room. Problem is if I sit facing the shorter wall, I loose soundstage width, but I face the wider wall, I sit very close to the speakers. But on angle facing me, the ports are still away from the walls, not loading the room too much. I tried with my other speakers already but only downside is now I have a problem with coherency as I sit at a closer distance where I can hear the tweeter and midranges separately! In this room, even if I don’t want to buy a KEF, I will be forced to buy one, as I cannot beat physics with a typical two way at this distance. Last year I had a good time with canton reference 7k which I sold moving out. For this reason I was thinking of getting a Kef Reference 1(older one) but I cannot find it anywhere now! Meta ref 1 is out of my budget and hence I am here scrolling in this thread! R3 meta + dual SVS sb2000 pro is what I am thinking of. That’s exactly the price of the canton references I had, probably would be a better suit for me for the next 3-4 years. I already miss the soundstage of the cantons, but I have no way to get it right in my new listening room.
What the point calling speaker Bright when it is 1-2 db higher? If there is measurements why do you bought them? There is absolutely flat Genelec.
I would never buy it. Hope meta improves that, so it becomes a potential candidate
Buy Genelec. Same price. Hopes. Small bargain is hard to improve. Also try to listen both speakers in your own room.
I happen to have almost the same size room 5,2x4,2m, speakers (R5) at middle position of wide wall, 2m triangle. If find the soundstage to be of acceptable width with no toe in, but it's nothing spectacular, at best it sounds to be just as wide as the speaker distance, sometimes it feels narrower. But the sound is very coherent and uniform.
Same price ? Don’t think so.
This is exactly the reason I didn’t buy a current gen r series. Soundstage is limited by how wide the speakers are kept apart. Many folks who never owned any other speakers other than Kef has no clue about how a wide radiating speaker can sound like
That's a very compelling little "buy me now!" video! With absolutely no useful information. Their advertising people are really quite good. Even their technical "white papers" have a "buy me! buy me!" vibe.
So that’s the KEF’s leak! No other speaker from Kef line has red drivers without the ribbed surrounds and meta. So hinting the new R Meta
Spotted as well, indeed it is. Uploaded by KEF 2 days ago. So if what’s been said is true within 1-2 weeks should be announced properly and orders in March. Excited to get R3 meta + R6c - i do hope the will have wider dispersion same improvement as new reference has over previous gen.
The dispersion is excellent, so you can DSP the FR to your liking.
Dispersion as in how off center you can listen and relatively low drop in SPL (due to cancelling waves) - R series are narrow with 40 degrees under 9db drop if I remember correctly, new reference meta and ls50 meta are around 50 or above. 60 and more is wide dispersion. Wider it is bigger the soundstage that extends outside of speakers.
Dispersion is even, not wide. And if wide is my preference, no amount of eq or DSP can make it a wide sounding speaker.
I would suspect R6c will best selling speaker of them all, followed by R3 meta
You are right here, I just checked the ls50 and ls50 Meta. They both are more or less 50 degrees. In real life R Series was always narrow to my ears, and ls50 meta wide. Never listened to the Orginal ls50s. In a typical Hi-Fi Store, everything else sounds wider than uniq. Hardly heard any hifi speaker narrow as the r series recently. But they image better than everything. You cannot get both on a speaker if m not wrong.
