KEF 107.2 with KUBE?
KUBE - I AM ABSOLUTELY CORRECT WHEN I SAY THAT EACH KUBE IS CALIBRATED TO THE INDIVIDUAL SPEAKER. If you can find Dick Olshers review in Stereophile vol 9 no 7, November 1986, he discusses the 107 Kube. He actually had DC offset problems with his 107's Kube. When contacting the factory Dick was advised that the factory had all the Kube parameters recorded for his specific speakers, which were serial number SN1407, and the factory would be able to build a new Kube for those specific speakers. Each speaker is also marked L for Left and R for Right. This is all documented in the review. I can only suggest if you still dont believe me, or Dick Olsher, then contact the factory direct and hope that someone there has been there long enough to remember. |
Here is Olsher's review in Stereophile |
I reread Olsher's review of the 107 in Stereophile. I think I discounted that aspect of it because I suspect hyperbole. Is it logical that contemporaneously built speakers would have such variations, yet the factory could build a given speaker with such precision to match exactly a previously built speaker? If that were so, why then would there be the supposed variation? And lest we forget, those KUBEs have HF and LF gain controls aimed at tailoring the sound to particular placements and room acoustics. But if I read the review literally, I should be able to send KEF the serial numbers of my 107.2s and get a KUBE made for them. Unfortunately. my 107.2s, like so many others, were reconed with new surrounds in the US. Woe is me! db |
I have a pair of KEF 107s and tried them with and without the KUBE in a blind test and my ears could not tell the difference when it was in and when it was out of the circuit. So when asked if I wanted to sell it, I did. My KEF's are in LN condition and so far these 20+ year old speakers show no sign of needing the woofers refoamed, but then I haven't moved them for the last 20!! |
