Vandersteen 7 mark ll or big Kef blades

Vandersteen anti-wonky since 1977
more than 250 K sold

my God, something must be right.....

yes designing a great speaker using first order slopes is very difficult and requires drivers that do not breakup for much larger operating bands. There are of course other brilliant speaker designers. Does KEF make a stand or recommend a speaker height in the LS50 manual ?

IF you were paying attention to reading others posts vs just selling, you would know that I spend a good bit of time in a studio with a pair of ATC... I am quite aware of what they can do. But I also know the whims of fashion in that business..JBL, genelec, Yamaha, etc....run by many of the same people bringing you loads of compression and albums with 10 dB of dynamic..range
for the record studio owner prefers his Focal mounted side by side....

hopefully the OP gets time to just listen to the music......

No Tomic we aren't just selling.  and we do pay attention.  If you notice we don't have your position, we like many different types of loudspeakers nor do we believe that any brand or any technology is intrinsically better than any other.

If you came to our shop and heard our Personas, our Legacys or Kef's we wouldn't tell you one was better than another.

Please tell me which performance sedan is better? A BMW,  Mercedes, Audi, Infiniti, Lexus, Cadillac? 

All are valid choices all have strengths and weaknesses.

Again back to the studio discussion, yes Focal makes studio monitors as does ATC, and Genlec,  please find one studio that uses Vandersteen if the speakers are so acurate you should be able to find studios using them correct?

We do know that a famous record producer uses Legacys and there are a few other studios as well, perfect pistons are perfect aren't they?

Your love of Vandy is commendable and they do make great speakers for some people, you think the reason we like Legacy or Paradigm is because we sell them, no sell them because we like them. 

We have stated our position on Vandy many times before, they aren't our cup of tea, and for the money we have choices we feel are better suited for our values. 

Good luck and enjoy your speakers.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ 

Per KEF 652 mm

for the “ ideal soundscape”....

£ 400 direct from KEF.....

Which of course differs from the manual....

which recommends even less....
one hallmark of engineering excellence is following your own advice...
well until you don’t....

i think i will stick by my initial point tweeter at ear height....