KEF Robot Speaker Review coming

[Laserjock]

KEF Robot Speaker preorder

I’m having one Drop Shipped for review.

Working with my team in Seattle to help with getting it on the Klippel for testing.

 

[GXAlan]

Looking forward to it!!

(April 1…)

 

[F1Fan72]

What on earth .. Question, Why?

 

[mj30250]

Don't let it run away during compression testing.

 

[PatentLawyer]

That is a pretty solid April 1 effort from Kef. Kudos!

 

[F1Fan72]

As an April fool .. this must be an April fool ..

 

[GXAlan]

As an April fool .. this must be an April fool ..

Yeah. Go through the specifications and you will see the obvious April fool’s…

But the idea of a lifestyle speaker on wheels isn’t too crazy actually.

 

[Muddywaters]

Probably sold out immediately…

 

[kemmler3D]

Power consumption
1.21 Gigawatts

Great scott!!!

On the other hand,

Amplifier class (per speaker)
LF: Class C3
HF: Class PO

Oh dear.

 

[JeremyFife]

Vinyl playback... nice touch

 

[thewas]

On first glance I thought they wanted to compete with Wilson Audio.


They have had some great ones also in the past:

 

[Cbdb2]

How much? Too bad you also need to buy a small modular reactor to feed it the 1.21 Gwatts.

 

[MaxwellsEq]

How much? Too bad you also need to buy a small modular reactor to feed it the 1.21 Gwatts.

Or a lightning strike

 

[kemmler3D]

But the idea of a lifestyle speaker on wheels isn’t too crazy actually.

It's been tried, it wasn't crazy but apparently it was pretty dumb:

Living with Astro, Amazon’s home robot

Basically Alexa on wheels, Astro is functional but also frustrating.

www.theverge.com

 

[Madlop26]

By the way you need 2 for stereo sound!

I am not going to lye, for a moment the thought a speaker following me around the house playing my music did not sound as crazy as it should be. haha

 

[Mnyb]

This is also in the ”spec”

”^KEFbot has not been tested to conform to Asimov's Law of Robotics. Destruction of personal property not warrantied in the event of unauthorized prompts or commands.”

 

[Ageve]

Supported format (network)
MQA^, DSD, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC, AAC, WMA, MP3, M4A, LPCM, Ogg Vorbis, Assembly Language, Python, and Javascript, Punched Cards (for backwards compatibility).

User review by Grok-2:

Sounds great
When will full self driving be available?

 

[thewas]

This is also in the ”spec”

”^KEFbot has not been tested to conform to Asimov's Law of Robotics. Destruction of personal property not warrantied in the event of unauthorized prompts or commands.”

When asking it to play Diana Krall maybe?