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.

...Kef Q5 speakers. This is a difficult item to review, because the main emphasis on this product is the ability to produce audible sound. This sound is something, which is difficult to explain without getting too technical. Within that context I will try to explain some of the technical details before the actual description of the Kef speakers, thus hopefully giving you a fuller understanding of the actual product. Things, which affect you ability to ?Hear the Music? 1 - The Human ear. The human ear can respond to minute pressure variations in the air if they are in the audible frequency range, roughly 20 Hz - 20 kHz. The nominal dynamic range of human hearing is from the standard threshold of hearing to the threshold of pain. A nominal range for hearing is 0 decibels to 130 decibels (db), which is considered to be...

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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It's Creative with speakers!

Advantages: Tiny, FM radio, voice recorder, speaker
Disadvantages: Quite some, read the review

...I never had a great respect for Creative?s audio quality, in a sense they are know to have at best ?above average? and normally ?average? audio quality. None of their audio products has ever reached, forget about over running, the standard set out by the best up there. This new Creative ZEN Stone Plus is no exception only that you get a speaker system, whose sound quality is not more than what you can expect from speaker so tiny, as a bonus and only that. The Upgrade to Creative Zen Stone plus, keeping the same price tag with upgraded accessories without charges. Providing silicon skin and detachable clip for the skin plus the standard ear-bud, instructions and of course the USB cable. I thought it was an inch from the Shuffle and Clip. The skin is a quality one providing openings for USB cable and the speaker. The new Zen Stone...

roktimdutta 23.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN Stone with Speaker 2 GB

Small Speakers, Small Sound

Advantages: Small, lightweight, can be used with any mp3 player
Disadvantages: Sound quality isn't great - speakers not very powerful

...Introduction I previously posted a review for the Sanza Fuze mp3 player I bought for my daughter. Well, one of the joys of having a child is you buy them something and then they ask you for accessories, and this was no exception - I needed to get a wall charger separately and she also asked for speakers. Most of the content my daughter has on her mp3 player is on her laptop, for which I bought her high quality speakers that give her excellent sound quality, so when she asked for speakers I told her I was only going to get cheap portable ones rather than spend a lot of money on something that would merely duplicate what her laptop does. Choosing the Speakers My daughter isn't particularly fussy about sound quality, so she was happy to go along with this and I did a little research online in search of something that would fit...

rosebud2001 11.11.2009 · 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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Speakers Corner - The Real Thing

Advantages: a British institution
Disadvantages: not as good as it used to be

...Does everybody who uses the words 'Speakers Corner' (from now on SC) know what they're talking about? That this is really a location: the north eastern corner of Hyde Park, near Marble Arch, London, UK? The words have left the location, aren't only the name of a place any more, they have become a term and are now used worldwide to describe . . . what actually? Certainly politicians in Singapore hadn't studied the subject closely when they decided to allow a SC on September 1, 2000. According to Reuters news agency: "The Singapore government announced it would launch the forum because it wanted greater public involvement, conducted in a 'mature, non-agitated way.'...Speakers must register for a permit and speeches may be recorded by the police . . . The police department said before the corner's opening that uniformed officers...

MALU 05.10.2005 · Read review
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