KEF Blade or Blade 2

Kef Reference 5 Meta

Thanks for the offer, but I will not be at Axpona. 

Did you ever get to demo the Blade? I went from 300 wpc to 600 wpc and the difference was stunning. The speakers had decent dynamics with the 300 watt piece, but were completely opened up with the 600 watt monoblocks. Every aspect of the presentation was improved. 

I did not, I did listen to a pair of R3s at a shop close to Wichita. They would only play then a screaming volume and with crappy music. But in spite of that there were things to like. Really would like to get a chance to here some of the higher up the chain models with better music. Thanks, for the response. 

Did you change your screen name? I know i'm late, I forget to check in. With the Blade meta's out I think the original Blade's are a flat out bargain. I stayed away from them for years because the first write up I read I think the journalist claimed the speakers were being driven by 4 JC1 mono blocks!!! I put my hegel h360 on my pair and totally enjoyed them. My only concern for these tall speakers would be around little children as kef didn't offer out riggers or dust covers. I started my speaker upgrade in 2015 and bought and resold at least a half a dozen used speakers in this price range. I'm not bold enough to predict what someone else will prefer and all the other speakers I tried were legit. The Blades belong on the list of speakers in this price range.