KEF Meta Reference 1's? anyboy heard them?

When you get into that kind of money, there are a number of floorstanders that will blow away a stand mount speaker. My choice in that price range is a Triangle Alpha or Delta. 

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The TAD ME1 blows away floor standers at the 10K price. At the $15K of the TAD ME1 then I think the ME1 can hang with similarly priced floor standers, especially in a medium sized room. I would want to hear how much closer the new KEF Reference 1 is to the TAD ME1. I would also want to demo the Magico A1. I had the opportunity to buy the ME1 a few times, but I could not justify the $15K price, especially after raising the price for no apparent reason than what seem to me perception.

Some of us have moved away from floor standers. I augment my Reference 1s with a pair of Velodyne HGS-15s with SMS-1 acoustic bass management, and high-pass them with a passive balanced Marchand filter that sits between the Ayre KX-5 Twenty preamp and VX-5 Twenty amp.  Primary source is Roon via Ayre QX-5 Twenty endpoint.  Setup sounds good to me

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heard them the other day driven by a hegel H390 amp.  

recessed midrange, midbass coloration, poor bass depth and extension.  

at least the metallic treble was gone.  

not a fan of the KEF reference series and consider them some of the worst return on investment in audio.  

check out the Legacy Audio Calibre standmount.  blows the KEF away in every metric.