

The Cologne concert sounds just as close and at the same time as cool as it should be at a good facility. The sound from Dybdahl’s acoustic guitar is deep and at the same time well focused. The stereo perspective is very well defined and you do not feel that it lacks much compared to larger speakers. They do not go very deep in the bass, admittedly, but it is quality in the bass that gives, among other things, the piano sound a proper foundation in the bottom, and Keith Jarretts The speakers are so transparent and detailed that you hear small squeaks from the parquet, and they mark tempo changes and dynamic changes in the music in an exemplary way. The small KEF speakers are so well balanced that you can throw most of their music at them. Mozart’s The Magic Flute, for example. His last opera (1791) or singing performance, and one of the few with German libretto, and through LS50 Meta, the sound of the little magic flute stands in stark contrast to the orchestra’s enormous scale. The speakers manage to fold the orchestral sound with great conviction, and the vocal sound is simply magnificent. Gunpowder strong dynamics and silky smooth resolutionīut a subwoofer will be perceived as superfluous for most people, I think, who will hear that the small speakers play a weight class up in the bass. Especially if they are on a shelf next to the wall. This is because the bass is strengthened a bit. If you start with a limited budget, a Rotel A11, the small Rega IO or an affordable NAD amplifier can be a good choice, and you have a very large room to fill. we can recommend considering a small subwoofer that can come to the rescue, if you think the bass is drowning in the large room. The KEF speakers are not available in wood veneer, but black, titanium gray, off-white and blue, with matching racks in the same color (KEF S2), if you plan to place them on the floor.
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MAT should thus provide cleaner, more natural and as distortion-free sound as possible, with far better bass reproduction than usual for such small cabinets as this.īut the size can be deceiving. They are admittedly very furniture-friendly, and easy to play that they fit anywhere, and can be used with most amplifiers. Only 30 cm in height and 28 cm deep, they easily fit in the bookshelf, or next to the TV on the wall. The labyrinth pattern of the MAT disk absorbs different frequencies. They call it an acoustic, black hole, in which 99 percent of unwanted frequencies (620 Hz – 40 kHz) disappear.

The bass reflex port has been reshaped and the opening has been moved to the side of the back plate, which will dampen turbulence and prevent resonances from coloring the midrange. The cabinet otherwise looks like before, but is better cushioned inside with reinforcements and two cushioning materials (CLD and DMC) that will give a ‘deader’ cabinet, but the really big news is Metamaterial Absorption Technology – MAT.Ī round plate with an intricate labyrinth pattern is mounted on the back of the element, and the pits in the pattern absorb various frequencies, so KEF claims that they can remove 99 percent of unwanted sound from the back of the element.

The special Uni-Q element with the treble in the middle, under the turbine-like rosette, with the MAT disc placed behind where the air flows out behind the element. In LS50 Meta we have reached the 12th generation Uni-Q. Here, KEF’s engineers have created a new suspension based on new analyzes of various simulations, which have also led to a mythical voice coil system, and attenuation of the gap between the treble and the bass / midrange diaphragm. It should attenuate the distortion (0.7% THD at 90 dB) that can occur at higher frequencies. Now they have taken the biggest step for the coaxial speaker element in a long time, and called the new version Meta. Which plays on the fact that there is an underlying (meta) definition that lies in between here, and even if you can not see it, you can clearly hear how the element has improved since the LS50 debuted in 2011.
