KEF Blade Two - Unbelieveable

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

I saw a pair of black Blade 2 today tagged at $15k in Just Audio in Baltimore County MD. Bought my ls50 metas there last year.  

For starters, I would never spend 25k on a speaker without hearing them in my room.  Or even 10k, for that matter.  If you buy used, that's another matter.  Onto the money aspect, I don't encourage excessive spending, but I've found that one way to avoid upgraditis is to buy something at the top end of your financial comfort zone, to the point where the next upgrade is totally unfeasible. As others have mentioned, there are low-interest credit card loans, which would make the purchase more financially sound.  Also, audio prices are rising every time you sneeze.  I was looking at a pair of $3500 speakers and they went up to $4k in just a few months.  My Harbeth SHL5s went from $4k in 2005 to 8K now.  Seems that if you can get a used pair it would be great, but if you do buy new, sometimes just biting the bullet works out best.  But do hear them in your room.