KEF's meta material gimmick?

I don't feel the Meta's live up to the hype.  I immediately had to buy the KC62due to the lack of bass.  Just recently replaced them with Fyne Audio's F500-SP.  My wife immediately noticed the difference in musicality and soundstage.

I have both original and newer meta ls50s. Like them or not, the metas are the real deal as advertised. No BS. Plenty of that elsewhere. I love that! Size is their only limitation. Other newer meta models solve that problem as well but for additional cost, of course. 

There are lots of reviewers who had the original LS50s and then tried the LS50 Meta who found big or small differences so you could check them out.

I bought the LS50 Metas recently used and once I found a set up that really made them sing, I am happy with them. 

I have the original LS-50s and have heard the Metas. There is a small but distinct improvement in the high end without doubt. More amazing to me is KEF keeping the same pricing. All that said, the LS-50 is one of the most frequently mis-used speakers on the market. It is a nearfield monitor, and in smaller treated rooms is capable of extraordinary performance. In medium and large rooms, my own living room as an example, they simply sounded lost. In my office, they sound extraordinary. Is Meta material market hype? No and yes No, it actually works- as claimed. Was that leveraged by KEF's Marketing Department? Yes. That's their job description - to drive demand for their product. And in their case, they can back it up, something not all audio companies, large or small, can claim..

No more of a gimmick than any other manufacturer using their versions of light, stiff and responsive speaker cone material...