KEF Blog

[MylesBAstor]

How to buy audio equipment. Some sensible suggestions.

http://www.kefdirectblog.com/kef-bl...ipment-a-quick-start-guide-to-your-20-mu.html

 

[thedudeabides]

Thanks Myles.

Lots of defensible, common sense stuff that is often overlooked by many.

GG

 

[Sonus]

Not a word about room acoustics....so weird.

 

[Alan Sircom]

Not a word about room acoustics....so weird.

Not really. From experience, the whole room acoustics issue is often slightly too 'black belt' to introduce at the level KEF is pitching here. There's several stages to this, and the "get them interested with the least possible disruption to real life" part os key. The speaker manual discusses placement and basic room acoustics, so that covers stage two. After that comes the more pro-active treatment and correction, by which time you've either scared them off completely or they are already really into their audio and up for the challenge.

KEF also devoted years and millions (with B&O) to attempt to design a loudspeaker that effectively dials out the room. The UniQ design was a result of that R&D, IIRC. So KEF is slightly more justified than most to put the whole room acoustic thing on a low heat in its discussions.

But I'd think it was more to do with the first part.

 

[Sonus]

From experience, the whole room acoustics issue is often slightly too 'black belt' to introduce at the level KEF is pitching here.

Fair enough

KEF also devoted years and millions (with B&O) to attempt to design a loudspeaker that effectively dials out the room.

I don't think this can be done.
But i could be wrong.

 

[Alan Sircom]

I don't think this can be done.
But i could be wrong.

It can't be done - the operative word was 'attempt'. But in trying, these companies amassed a lot of useful data that has been applied to their respective loudspeaker systems.

 

[MylesBAstor]

Fair enough



I don't think this can be done.
But i could be wrong.

Doesn't it depend upon what you consider to be room Rx? It like people arguing over supplements. Show me a food that doesn't have stuff taken out and then have to be added back or supplemented. Ergo, unless one listen in a room with six bare walls, there has to be by definition some sort of room Rx being used.

 

[Sonus]

Doesn't it depend upon what you consider to be room Rx? It like people arguing over supplements. Show me a food that doesn't have stuff taken out and then have to be added back or supplemented. Ergo, unless one listen in a room with six bare walls, there has to be by definition some sort of room Rx being used.

A room is part of the system, it is a component and should be treated like one.
It doesn't matter what room do you have as long as you listen inside one you should think of it the same way as you do with other components in your system.