![]() ![]() ![]() These speakers are just astounding, even for an old audiophile like myself and its not the weight and size that makes good hi-fi, it is the sound it delivers, and trust me the LS50 Wireless II’s, deliver in spades. They are everything hi-end ‘fi should be, without the need for selling everything else you own and having to buy a fork-lift truck, so you can clean behind the hi-fi racks once a week. Instantly recognisable as the successor of the LS50, the LS50 Meta is born of the same KEF desire for continual development and is therefore fittingly the first loudspeaker to employ Metamaterial Absorption Technology 1. I had my fingers crossed behind my back and hoped that I would be forgiven for lying. The impedance graphs shows the Meta stays in the 3,7-4ohm region for quite some time so these are fairly power hungry speakers. When my son asked, I told him they are OK, but not real hi-end ‘fi. Both have fairly low sensitivity 83,2db LS50 Meta, 705 S2 85,4db measured at NRC Canada anechoic chamber (with low freq cut off 100hz). The soundstage, the grip on the music, Jeff’s vocals bringing tears to my eyes, the depth of bass (no sub-woofer) everything from these two small boxes - really? Yes - really! Was this a trick? How could these tiny boxes move me in such a way that even syrup of figs could not? The new Kef LS50 Meta is the replacement for the iconic LS50 speaker which was released way back in 2012 as a limited anniversary model and was one of the. ![]() I clicked on Jeff Buckley’s ‘Lilac Wine’ cover, pressed play and was completely blown away. abd1 could be the first of many out of the blocks before we get to see a direct head to head comparison between old and new. My techie son set them up, showed me how to access a music streaming service and left me to it. So maybe existing LS50 owners (and rival manufacturers) shouldn’t panic and would be better off waiting to see if customer feedback here matches Steve Guttenberg’s enthusiasm for the KEF LS50 Meta. I never imagined or had any intentions of using them to listen to music through. The result is cleaner, more precise sound. Its smooth curved surfaces help radiate sound out across the baffle without any interference from hard edges, which cause diffraction. I bought the LS50 Wireless II speakers, mainly to listen to The Archers and route large conference calls through. LS50 Meta’s low-diffraction, curved baffle is precision modelled around the Uni-Q driver array. Two icons-in-waiting take up the challenge: LS50 Meta and LS50 Wireless II. I am an old audiophile, brought up on components so heavy, you could only ever live in ground floor accommodation. Now a new breed of loudspeakers takes on the mantel. ![]()
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