KEF Reference Series

[parimento1]

I have never heard a KEF speaker in real life, but was always intrigued by the coaxial driver arrangement. Has anyone heard them, and if so, what were your impressions??

[RicardoJoa]

Never heard those kef, but coexial speakers have out for long time.

[kwarny]

I currently have the Soundfield Monitor 1 that is one tour. It uses a KEF coaxial. I took it to an Ascend owner's house that has the towers (nrt) two weekends ago. I am now swapping the SAM1 and my 340SE out about every 2 minutes into each song.

It is easier to describe the difference compared to the Towers than it is with my 340SE. It bugged me so much at home that i ended up taking windowed measurements at 0, 30, and 45 degrees of the three sets of speakers in the room at 1 meter.

[JustaSheep]

Kwarny, can you expand on what differences you heard? Also, what bugged you?

Thanks,
Sheep

[RicardoJoa]

sounds like those sma1 may sound similar to the 340?
The sm1 has some advantage with its active woofer.

[kwarny]

I plan on having a blind listening test with my gf tonight to see if she notices anything. Some at the recent Kansas City speaker shootout thingy noticed something similar to what I heard with the SAM1 but another was praising it for this trait. Him and I have had different impressions on this hearing aspect the last two weekends (with almost every speaker) listening so perhaps we envision this aspect completely different.

[GirgleMirt]

I have never heard a KEF speaker in real life, but was always intrigued by the coaxial driver arrangement. Has anyone heard them, and if so, what were your impressions??

I heard the Muon and some of the Reference series. I thought the Muon was disappointing. The Reference 207/2 for its price it was definitely not bad, definitely worth a listen if you're looking to purchase some speakers in the 20000$ price range, they sound quite nice!

The Muon I did not get though... Ok, it was at a show, but the sound just wasn't that great for 150000$... I'd much rather take a pair of 207/2 and 130000$ in spare change...

Besides that I had heard the older Q and XQ I think it was, the Q wasn't very good and I liked the XQ but it was $$$.