KEF IQ9 Speakers

Advantages: Excellent sound quality at all frequencies, well built and good looking
Disadvantages: Would be imposing in a small room

...Bought my KEF IQ9s a year ago to replace my ageing Mission bookshelf speakers, and am still loving them. They are driven by my Mission Cyrus 2 Amp and are used to play a wide range of music mostly rock and pop both from CD and records . Having tested the IQ range these were undoubtedly the best from bass through mid range to treble, and for sound quality, performing well at low, as well as higher, volumes. I could have saved £150 and bought the next model down but I knowI would have regretted it. They are handsome and stylish floor standing speakers, all of the KEF IQ range are available in a range of three different veneers to suit your style. Apart from extracting them from the packaging (I had to crawl into the box to get them out), they were easy to set up and have been totaly reliable since purchase. A year on - not a single...

Richard55 22.06.2007 · Read review
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KEF Coda 70s speakers take rear guard action

Advantages: Small, really packs a punch !
Disadvantages: A tad heavy for my wall brackets :-)

...OK, I'm sorry for the really bad pun in this review's title, but the fact is, these are the rear speakers in my Home Cinema (HC) 5.1 surround sound system. So far, I had my Denon AV1803 AV amp, my AE EVO 3 fronts, and my Tannoy centre speakers (all reviewed by myself in Ciao), but it was the most difficult choice to find a sufficiently small and compact rear speaker that packed a big enough punch. I have a confession to make at this point : I told my wife I was planning on getting the new Nxt series flat loudspeakers for the rears, as she really wasn?t keen on having big boxes mounted on the back wall of the living room. Of course, what I *didn't* tell her, was that it would have cost 300-400 quid to get a decent set of these new flat speakers (at the time)...... So, after a pretend week or two of searching the shops and the net...

g8ina 07.05.2004 · Read review
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Just go out and listen to the Kef Q5.

Advantages: Great Sound
Disadvantages: Not within everyones price range.

...-and the other end of the scale, bass, simple music, such as a solo piano performance. Listen to the music soft and loud, for clarity and lack of harshness in the high range and a lack of boominess in the low bass end. The best position to listen to music from a good quality set of speakers is at the apex of the triangle; this is where the sound coming from each speaker meets. Start in this position, and then move off-centre until you find the angle at which the high frequencies become muffled. The farther you can go, the better the speakers. Sharpen your listening skills by first comparing each store's top performer with its low-priced entry-level model. Hopefully this is enough information for you to appreciate the review. Kef Q5 The speakers are two and a half bass reflex, which means there are two and a half 160mm woofers speakers (see...

mark1961 22.10.2004 · Read review
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High quality speaker system for a high price.

Advantages: Great sound quality, Look good
Disadvantages: High price, trouble of hiding wires (as with all wired speakers)

...The KEF KHT 3005 is a 5.1 surround sound speaker system, which consists of one large subwoofer and 5 individual speakers. Subwoofers simply allow you to playback low bass frequencies at high levels. Without a subwoofer you may not be able to listen to some sound from a video or an audio program or file. All KEF speaker systems including this one use Uni-Q technology in order to produce high-quality and concentrated levels of audio output. The single Subwoofer and the 5 individual loudspeakers (tweeters) work together as a single audio output source so that sound is dispersed equally around the entire room. The subwoofer and the individual loudspeakers interlink their sound output to cover the entire room in order to allow experience of sound from anywhere in the room. But you have to consider how you arrange the speaker system...

yassarikhan786 22.03.2008 · Read review
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KEF KHT 3005 SE

Advantages: Look great sound great easy to install
Disadvantages: need a good amp to get the most out of them

...Hi there ! We own the new verson of the kef KHT 3005 whats known as the SE version(we used to have the old model). The new version is a vast improvement on the old model with the addition of the new tangerine tweeter. Power handling also seems to have improved. They fill the room with rich deep base from the new HTB2 sub woofer and they look absolutely fantastic ! We managed to get them at a fantastic price from The brotherhood of sound in Chesterfield at almost £200 off the RRP. It is noted that we are using Hi def audio from the new onkyo 875 receiver and from the PS3 blue ray movies are incredible! Overall well worth the money!!!!...

ftobaby 07.09.2008 · Read review
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KEF 2005.2 with Onkyo 606

Advantages: Style, sound and build quality
Disadvantages: Bigger than expected

...I picked up the eagerly anticipated Onkyo 606 a few weeks ago; I have paired it with a KEF 2005.2 5.1 surround speakers, both in silver finish. I purchased both from A1 Audio based in Sheffield, who supplied direct to me in Glasgow. I also bought 2 set of KEF floor stands to mount the speakers on. The Onkyo/KEF system replaces a budget Sony out of the box DVD/surround 5.1 system... and what a difference, just a totally different experience. I have hooked up the Onk with my PS3 via HDMI for gaming, DVDs & Blu-ray use. Am not gonna put anything on the spec of the 606 here, as that is pretty widely available elsewhere. I have connected the KEFs to the Onk with QED silver micro speaker cable. Out of the box everything feels very well put together, very strong and sturdy quality build. But everything is also big, much bigger...

adamneil 09.06.2008 · Read review
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KEF CODA 80 >> Built Like A Rock <<

Advantages: Solid, Value For Money, Excellent Clarity
Disadvantages: Colour ( but that is only my opinion! )

...Having just purchased an AV surround processor & surround speakers, I decided a center speaker was required to obtain the full effect. Looking at my budget, I could not really spend more than about £90, having just forked out for an AV amp, various cheap center speakers were considered, and rejected due to poor performance & build quality. The KEF COD 80 caught my eye, as it was a special deal on the Richer Sounds web site at £69.99, observations elsewhere showed this model to be £130+. I ordered one hastily, but expected to wait about 10 days for delivery, but I was surprised to find it arriving within 2 days. (I suppose Richer Sounds must have a warehouse full to sell them so cheaply). The only colour they had was the ?Light Maple? type ? but this did not bother me as I generally don?t buy stuff to match the sideboard, but...

purpleduck 07.05.2004 · Read review
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The revolution will not be televised - XMI X-mini II Mini speaker

Advantages: Great sound, bargain price, sleek look.
Disadvantages: The kids listening to happy hardcore at the back of the bus might find out.

...Revolutions: they aren?t usually very good, are they? Big promises by ego-crazed dictators, resulting in the butcher of millions of innocents. No, I?m not a massive fan of revolutions, so I was sceptical when the X-mini arrived on my doorstep, promising ?audio revolution in a box?. On the back, the big promises continued: ?Delivering on the promise of ?sound beyond size?, the X-mini II capsule speaker is petite in size but massive in sound?. By this point I was becoming very suspicious. The look of the thing worried me a little too. Not because it looks bad - it has a very slick look; the vivid red of the speaker poking out from the round, black casing like some demented 8-ball. It?s also very small, which is obviously handy. It?ll easily fit in your back pocket. The packaging too is very attractive (although if you lose sleep over...

Timi_Hendrix 15.09.2009 · Read review
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Speakers which might do the job?

Advantages: Cheap, good sound
Disadvantages: reliability

...Hello, Welcome to my review. I had these speakers included with my lovely hp computer which I purchased back in 2005. These speakers came in a rather blank box, with HP written on it, they came nicely packed with a lovely and very easy to use instruction booklet. They looked very professional and they are a nice grey/silver colour with a tint of blue, you plug these into the back of your monitor and they run off the monitors power input which is very useful, they do not have a power cable themself because they use the monitors cable for power, meaning theres a saving of plugs when it comes to your two point plug way! The speakers are prevented in dark blue plastic, with a silver/grey with "Hewlett-Packard" on the front, with the soft cotton above covering the speakers themself, tinted at the top with a silver/grey strip. These...

Heretohelpyou 18.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Hewlett-Packard PC multimedia speakers

iPod speakers

Advantages: Portable and lightweight
Disadvantages: You have to be very careful with them.

...I received these speakers as a Birthday present in March from a friend. I was thrilled with them as I had been desperate for a docking station or speakers to play my iPod on. The speakers: The speakers are very attractive and compact yet produce a rich deep bass sound, which is not always present on speakers of this size. They are very lightweight and fold to close at 15 ounces and 8 inches wide, 5.4 inches deep and 1.2 inches thick. The box the speakers come in quotes "With four AA batteries your speakers will play continuously for twenty-four hours" which sounds brilliant but in my experience on 2 x AA batteries they will play for 19 hours. As well as built in controls there is a wireless remote but you do have to be quite near to the speakers and at the right angle for the remote to actually work! The speakers also act as...

xxnatashaxx 28.10.2006 (29.10.2006) · Read review
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