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In Reply to: RE: Show me a current monitor posted by hahax@verizon.net on March 28, 2025 at 18:55:13:
I have at an audio expo back in February and I was not impressed at all have never been impressed by KEF. KEF makes low sensitivity drivers and low sensitivity drivers are known for being like a flat soda lifeless dull 100% not dynamic. And if low sensitivity was not enough, they are coaxial and in real life sound does not come to you from only one point, so any realism is lost.
It's important to remember the first coaxial speakers made were Altec Lansing 604's and they were not invented for sound quality they were invented to save space and be compact.
Coaxial speakers have to many problems.
The woofer is used as a waveguide on KEF speakers the woofer moves as the soundwaves from the tweeter move across its surface causing ripples inter module distortion. Not to mention were the tweeter meets the larger cone on KEF speakers the design causes diffraction artifacts that are noticeable at higher frequencies.
And the biggest problem and the most obvious or should be the most obvious there are three bands of frequency bass, mids, highs there is absolutely no substitute for each band having a dedicated driver specializing in its given frequency range. Coaxial will always lack in the bass due to the fact its designed more for the critical mid-range rather than bass.
What's funny is KEF coaxial suck compared to Tannoy coaxial. A Tannoy 15" gold will make KEF owners cry Altec Lansing 604's also are KEF killers the difference between a good coaxial and a KEF coaxial is night and day.
A good design stands the test of time Altec Lansing 604's are still being made by the same tooling that has always made them, and they are made by some ex Altec Lansing employees that bought the tooling decades ago. Tannoy 15" gold was made unchanged from 1967 to 2015 Altec 604 from the early 1940's until now still basically unchanged. The fact that KEF is on their 12th version of the uni q driver is hilarious 12 attempts and they still suck LMAO!!! And 5 years from now KEF will be on their 20th version and it will still suck.
Great plains audio/Altec Lansing still making the world's number one coaxial driver a driver that has not changed because it does not have to from 1942 till now 83 years and still making them that says it all.
The only thing that stands out about KEF is their marketing department the Uni Q driver came out in 1987 so in the last 37 year they have 12 versions each claiming to be better than the last. That is a new version every 3.08 years. Read about every version they supposedly keep fixing problems the previous version had but they keep saying they are improving things they say they already improved yet have to improve again and again.
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