Kef Blades (1), being auditioned...please share your experience.

Fatiguingly bright with a distinctively recognizable sound of KEF; terrible sound, IMHO.

Hello,
The first thing I wonder is what is the amp/preamp you are using. Second is blades need serious space. At least 16’ wide and about 27’- 30’ deep. Third is are they broken in. All of these retail places do not get enough hours on there speakers. 200 hours on a tweeter and 500 on the drivers. Most places have one or two listening rooms. Yet there are 20 full size speakers that have not been broken in fully. Last but not least is the cables. You are auditioning $32,000 speakers for the full blades. You should have serious cables throughout your whole system. I am not saying you don’t. It amazes me when I hear people have $5,000 DACs still using the standard black power cable and a digital cable they spent $15 on. I am going to recommend Revel speakers. Try the 328be. The whole speaker is really good. The closest to the Blade 2s would be the Revel Salon 2s but for half the price of the blades you could get the 328be. The tweeter and mids are incredible. I am auditioning from https://holmaudio.com/
the Revel M126be bookshelf speakers right now to get a feel for the sound signature until I can demo the 228be which are out on demo to someone else. These small bookshelf speakers filled a 14’ x 24’ room. I do have 2 REL subs to cover below 50hz but you would not need to do that with the bigger speakers which can go down to 22hz. I hope this helped. 

@ilyavorozheykin1 - what KEFs have you owned?

@daveman2 - Owning is not necessary to have an experience. When a baroque violin sounds metallic – no, thanks.

Hi jay53!  I heard them at CES when they were introduced and liked them very much. Play around with placement and try angling them in so the "beams" cross over a foot or so in front of your listening position. Good luck!