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- Μηνύματα
- 8.978
- Reaction score
- 895

"…the best stand-mounted speaker I’ve heard in my system."
KEF Reference 201/2 Loudspeakers
Price: $5000 USD per pair.
Warranty: Five years parts and labor.
Review Summary
Sound
"In my room, the 201/2 reached firmly to under 50Hz -- as low, really, as any stand-mounted speaker can be expected to without sacrificing too much sensitivity -- and then reproduced everything from there on up with as much transparency, clarity, and detail as I’ve heard from any dynamic speaker." "Despite the neutrality and high degree of detail they’re capable of, the 201/2s didn’t come across as cold, clinical robots, as some linear, highly revealing speakers do. Instead, they were surprisingly fleshed out and well textured, making voices sound rich and lifelike."
Features
"The 201/2 is a true three-way design -- you don’t often see three-way stand-mounted speakers, especially of this size -- with a 6 1/2" paper-based woofer that’s crossed over at 450Hz to the Uni-Q cone driver." "Uni-Q is a coincident driver technology…" "where the tweeter driver is located within a larger cone-based driver, occupying the space normally reserved for the dustcap." In the case of the 201/2 (and all the KEF Reference models), it’s a 1" titanium-dome tweeter that delivers the highs inside a 6 1/2" cone that’s used for midrange frequencies. Fourth-order slopes cross over the drivers at 2.5kHz."
Use
"Around back, there are three sets of binding posts, allowing you to tri-wire the 201/2s if you wish…. You’ll also see three small screw-in devices that offer a very welcome feature: high- and low-frequency contouring."
Value
"While $5000 is quite a lot of money for a speaker that needs to be propped up off the floor, it certainly isn’t too steep a price for the 201/2 when you realize that you can pay a whole lot more for a speaker and get considerably less. Furthermore, I don’t know of a speaker priced less than the 201/2 that offers the same collection of strengths, even among the many so-called 'giant-killers.'"
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