KEF R11 Meta Tower Speaker Review

[Jimbob54]

Why is The Panther not showed with this review? Seem like The Panther is also missing with other reviews. I’m sure there is an explanation But I am new to this (faboulus I might add) site. Oh, and could we get a COMPLETE list of The various Panther modes?

Often doesn't fit in shot with speakers .

Sometimes Amir forgets.

Pretty comprehensive list : https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/asr-panthers.11541/

 

[The Great]

Often doesn't fit in shot with speakers .

Sometimes Amir forgets.

Pretty comprehensive list : https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/asr-panthers.11541/

Thank you very much, jimbob54. What about The postman Panther then?

 

[Jimbob54]

Thank you very much, jimbob54. What about The postman Panther then?

ASR Panthers

Headless Panther The fear of audio companies - this headless panther signifies a poorly engineered product. Measurements of the product typically show bottom-of-the-pile performance and/or false claims by the product vendor. Sometimes the product is broken in a way that lends it unusable or...

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[anphex]

Please have a look at the measurement image below. Purple and teal are WITHOUT COVERS, using my KEF Reference 3 Meta "naked". Red and blue are WITH COVERS. I am surprised by this 2 dB drop in the HF range since these covers are pretty expensive and KEF advertises them as "crystal clear without altering the sound".

I just need an opinion here. Is this reasonable and in the range of "can't be done better" for magnetic cloth covers or should I really expect linearity even with covers?

Edit: Oh, purple and red are at 0,5m pretty much on axis. Teal and blue are 30° and about 1m distance.

 

[dogmamann]

Please have a look at the measurement image below. Purple and teal are WITHOUT COVERS, using my KEF Reference 3 Meta "naked". Red and blue are WITH COVERS. I am surprised by this 2 dB drop in the HF range since these covers are pretty expensive and KEF advertises them as "crystal clear without altering the sound".

I just need an opinion here. Is this reasonable and in the range of "can't be done better" for magnetic cloth covers or should I really expect linearity even with covers?

Edit: Oh, purple and red are at 0,5m pretty much on axis. Teal and blue are 30° and about 1m distance.


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I expected worse than this when you cover the UNIQ. You are basically introducing another cheap plastic ring over the carefully designed plastic ring(shadow flare) which is a critical design element for the sound of the UNIQ.


Good that the grill isn’t creating any diffraction as that’s worse than this. Also UNIQ grills are the most easiest grills which you can put on and put off while listening. If I were you I would have left the grills on the woofers and left the uniqs naked.