FYI
Hmm new concept speaker "blade" by KEF with 3 yrs R&D and nothing to sell yet... Interesting ideas but nothing totally new except some new inhouse drivers. Still debugging it seems.
http://www2.kef.com/us/conceptblade
Let's get out our DIY pencils...
Use a 2 way with a 3" fullrange with a slight horn mounting and 4 8" woofers cross bolted in the same sort of configuration.
Hmm new concept speaker "blade" by KEF with 3 yrs R&D and nothing to sell yet... Interesting ideas but nothing totally new except some new inhouse drivers. Still debugging it seems.
http://www2.kef.com/us/conceptblade
Let's get out our DIY pencils...
Use a 2 way with a 3" fullrange with a slight horn mounting and 4 8" woofers cross bolted in the same sort of configuration.
PeteMcK said:hmm... back to back bass drivers + fullrange, looks like what Planet10 has been advocating all along...
Nothing really new for KEF either (except maybe the swoopy cabinet)... 10th generation KEF coax mid-tweeter, and the push-push woofers go back to one of the 104 refs (althou they have now taken then out of a phasey delay bandpass box.
dave
The execution is advanced. Else, KEF has shown the principles before.
This one is a 21st century speaker indeed. Not for sale. Prestige element. They have been briefed their own Nautilus it seems.
Nice to see KEF claiming their innovation heritage and tech lead along with showing Muon. Never too late after they had been ripped off in the 70s-80s.
This one is a 21st century speaker indeed. Not for sale. Prestige element. They have been briefed their own Nautilus it seems.
Nice to see KEF claiming their innovation heritage and tech lead along with showing Muon. Never too late after they had been ripped off in the 70s-80s.
vuki said:
Lucky... you actually were able to listen to a KEF blade. Must be a story there.
"as any designer will confirm, “what looks right,usually is.”
watch the video in the KEF link above ...the new "uniQ" coax driver with 3" VC looks pretty impressive indeed. Certainly high SPL is assured with that thing.
planet10 said:
I'm not sure that's true. The B&C 8CX, for instance, is a really nice driver. Pricey, admittedly.
And for smaller drivers, the 3" Uni-Q in the cheap KEF eggs is really very impressive. Measures smoothly, well-ventilated basket makes it look like a scale-model TC Sounds TC2000, and often available cheaply.
And there are always Tannoy Dual Concentrics to be liberated from their nearfield monitor/midfield monitor/stage monitor cabinets...
That 3" vc Uni-Q on the Blade looks really cool. The extra vc diameter lets KEF develop a bigger "mouth" for the tweeter waveguide. I bet that's going to be in their next-generation of top-tier speakers. The rest of the speaker isn't that impressive. Don't much care for carbon fiber, and unless the woofers go up really high it seems that they'd be better served closer to the floor.
infinia said:
No, they will not sell it. They will showcase it all over the globe and derive products I guess. They must have learned from others.
Everything they developed out of scratch they published on ''Keftopics'' back in the 70s.
The target function approach, the 105 concept and its production method, laid base and got blatantly copied to make some highly acclaimed ''monitor'' and its manufacturer famous back then.
My friend asked me to re-veneer his old Kef 103/3 monitor speakers. I've never seen Kef inside but hmmm this thing must have taken months and months of developement. Independent midrange driver mounting with a steel rod , crossover with dozens elements and bass EQ. I have no idea how that thing sounds but engineering input is impressive.
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