Has anyone heard these speakers? They are stunning, but i wonder if it's a bit of hoo-haa...
http://www.kef.com/products/muon
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I wonder if they sound as good as BL5
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I have always been a fan of Kef speakers, these just look as if they are trying to hard...
Just goes to show how far advanced B&O are in terms of speaker design as these look very 90s compared to the avantgarde 9s & 5s.
Not my cup of tea! And are these real or a concept? I am sure they could well sound very good - there are a lot of excellent high end speakers - but will not be as easy to set up as 5s. Once you get to this level though, the whole thing becomes more about you and what you want to project about yourself.
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I hope they sound much, much better than they look😛
They look as if they've been stood too close to a heat source.
I'm sure they sound very very good.
They do look as if they've lterally just fallen off the back of a lorry though😛 Not to my tastes, but I can see other people loving them.
Having said that I'm sure they look totally different in the flesh as photo's don't normally do a product justice - remember the initial reactions to BL9's?
Chris.
They were launched at the latest Venice Biennale. Limited run of production, already almost filled with orders.
Reckon on USD 140.000 for a pair. Plus the rather formidable amplifier monoblocks required to run them well.
Haven't heard them. You'll need a large room, as the surface reflections first come to life with distance to the walls, in order to create an interesting interplay of light and shadow.
Just goes to show, yet again, that having fist fulls of money is no guarantee of having good taste!
Actually, of late I haven't been overly impressed with Kef's speakers. My local kikinoko dealer told me a story about how their top of the range reference speakers aren't actually all they're cracked up to be, so Kef sent all the reviewers on a Skiing trip before the review! Of course, they got very very good reviews 😎
I may be wrong, but wasn't the Archimedes project partly done with Kef? And isn't the bass unit in the BL5 a Kef unit?
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