speaker upgrade fever

Add Sonus Faber to your list. The most musical speakers I have heard.

DeVore!

@grislybutter 

I almost accidentally bought a pair of KEF Reference 1 speakers to tide me over while repairing my Quad 2905 electrostatics, which are widely recognised as very accurate speakers.  In many respects I prefer the Reference 1 - it plays a lot louder while keeping the imaging and accuracy I am used to.  I mainly play classical music and go to a lot of live concerts.  Should possibly mention that my amplifier is a Krell KSA80 class A which has huge current reserves.

Your speaker choices listing has the Reference 3 immediately under the Reference 1.  They are identical speakers except the 3 has a duplicate bass driver in a d'Appolito arrangement. The Reference 5, not in the listing, has four of the same bass drivers,

Yet speaker choices describes the Reference 1 as 3/bass+concentric and the Reference 3 as 4/bass+midwtweet+bass.

To really understand why the KEF is outstanding, have a look at the KEF White Paper REF-White-Paper-201219-LR.pdf

These aren't beercans, neither are they bookshelf speakers. I prefer them to every other speaker I have heard iincluding Sonus Faber, B&W and behemoths costing 20 times as much.

We are a kef dealer with loads of experience with themthe legacys are warmer and have similar clarity and sound staging the signatures will floor you 10k new in choice of finish  

Dave and Troy

AUDIO INTELLECT NJ

Kef and legacys dealer 

@richardbrand thanks for the feedback! I don't really understand what I missed but I admit, there are mistakes. It took me 100s of hours to download the data from terrible websites, no one ever responding to my email questions or telling me to go away. So it is working progress. 

I did not call them beercans ever. I think KEF is one of the best values.