KEF Blade Two - Unbelieveable

@curiousjim I have not heard anything other than the LS50 Meta announcement where they said the META will trickle UP to the Rererence and Blade lineup. It only makes sense given the age of the 2 lines. I thought it would have been ready for the holiday season, but a lot of things are not running as expected.

I’m guessing that it doesn’t sound like any other speaker KEF sells.

There is a lot of sonic resemblance to the Reference line and even the LS50. It’s just that on the Blades it is turned up to 11.

I spent a lot of time researching room size for the Blades. I have a 13’ W x 22’ L x 25’H (maybe higher) living room. That is a lot of volume, but I think too small. A dealer whom I bought a lot of gear from told me that the Blades he sells would work there. I do not believe him on that from when I have heard the Blades. I think you need to place the Blades in a front wall around 16+ feet. I cannot do that in my room

Those side firing woofers need some space to get the Blade magic. People have put it in rooms like mine, but I think it would be a bit of a compromise sonically. I am listening to the Thiel CS3.7 in my small office and I am not getting the best out of the speakers. I have made it sound very good, but I know the room is holding my speaker back.

I have the blade’s in a 17x27x7’ basement listening room and they are special. A H360 drives them with an affordable mqa dac I use to stream tidal. A larger room might require more power but this system sounds amazing. I think meta in the blades would be redundant after reading up on their website. Over the last 7 years I’ve been buying some really great speakers....These are staying!

I started with the blade two. I loved them. There was a blemish in the finish, so I upgraded to the blades. I’m driving them with a McIntosh mc452 and c53 preamp. These speakers just floor me every time that I listen to them. They are in a relatively small room, and they perform wonderfully. My house is very heavily insulated including all interior walls. If your budget allows for it and you like the looks, they are well worth it. I’m not sure that I would buy these speakers on the used market unless I could pick them up locally as they are to easily damaged in shipping. I know this as I’ve had multiple pairs due to shipping damage! KEF has been a very stand up company about making it right. For me it was worth purchasing new for the warranty. Also you never know how hard used speakers have been railed imho. Rock on!😎

I've always been fond of the blades.

Ive heard some excellent speakers over the years and I demo'd these to a very nice (and expensive) pair of vivid speakers but the blades I simply found to be better. Once I switched from copper speaker cables to an great pair of silver it was game over. Has synergy with my gryphon amp

I highly recommend you save up it's really worth it

^^^ any specific Gryphon amp? tia