How old is too old ?....

Location reality..buried deep in Northern Ontario..Canada.
Closes high-end shop 450 miles away....not a twinned highway....goat trail at best......
As mentioned before ,the info I get from posts such as this, helps me tremendously........
Keep it coming please...........

I've owned and loved several pairs of British monitors and understand your pain. Check out the ATC monitors for around $1100/pr. They are surprising.

If you have the cash for new speakers.....go crazy! Speaker shopping, to me, is the funnest kind there is in this game. Are there better speakers out there?...Sure there are......you've got a nice stereo so go get some new speakers and have a ball doing it. If at all possible, demo them at home on your electronics in your room...Trust your ears and enjoy.

Hey
Keep the kef

mike

Interesting to see KEFs compared with B&Ws, which have, to my ears, a completely different sound. Of course, comparing KEFs to Lowthers is equally weird. That's not to say that both aren't good, only that they are terribly different.

If you like the KEF "sound", that classically understated and reflective BBC-like quality but think you aren't getting it in full measure, you might consider replacing the drivers as well as the crossover components. Twenty years is about the maximum life expectancy for even high quality drivers. Surrounds get soft...or hard...cone properties change, etc. Just be sure you get OEM replacements from KEF.

I suspect that the only really good piece of advice is to ignore all of us and buy what sounds good to you.

will