Since purchasing some KEF LS50 I wondered what quality (of a driver) aside from XMAX to move more air?
Most little speakers I have owned do not fair well at all with rock or even popular music. My Continuum is a good example. Certainly it sounds sweet with certain music but ask it to do current pop etc it just does not have that DNA.
The LS50 on the other hand does. Now don’t get me wrong, it is still lacking the lowest and impactful bass notes but what is does it does very well.
A song I really like but just makes most small speakers whimper is Bare Naked Ladies “Brian Wilson”
The LS50 does not seem to get congested like the LS3/5a that it replaced. The vocals remain set apart and without a sense of strain or congestion. In fact all the instruments remain free from the smearing I normally expect with a lessor design.
I once had some JMLab Mini Utopia and that was a fantastic rock speaker (really fantastic all around.)
I imagine the quality of the driver has a lot to do with it. Low distortion etc. The well designed box may contribute as well. Since it is especially inert It seems to be free of any contribution to the music.
If anyone has thoughts on that I am all ears.
Most little speakers I have owned do not fair well at all with rock or even popular music. My Continuum is a good example. Certainly it sounds sweet with certain music but ask it to do current pop etc it just does not have that DNA.
The LS50 on the other hand does. Now don’t get me wrong, it is still lacking the lowest and impactful bass notes but what is does it does very well.
A song I really like but just makes most small speakers whimper is Bare Naked Ladies “Brian Wilson”
The LS50 does not seem to get congested like the LS3/5a that it replaced. The vocals remain set apart and without a sense of strain or congestion. In fact all the instruments remain free from the smearing I normally expect with a lessor design.
I once had some JMLab Mini Utopia and that was a fantastic rock speaker (really fantastic all around.)
I imagine the quality of the driver has a lot to do with it. Low distortion etc. The well designed box may contribute as well. Since it is especially inert It seems to be free of any contribution to the music.
If anyone has thoughts on that I am all ears.
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