Review on 🔍 Improved SEO: KEF Q950 Magnetic Grille for Speaker (Each) by Ada Freya ᠌

Name: 🔍 Improved SEO: KEF Q950 Magnetic Grille for Speaker (Each)
Item: 🔍 Improved SEO: KEF Q950 Magnetic Grille for Speaker (Each)
Rating: 5

December 20, 2022

Quality is top notch, happy with everything.

Someone will ask, why change something if there are such melodious shelf speakers and a good subwoofer. But historically it turned out that even at the moment when I was listening to different things and choosing exactly the right bundle, I walked out of the corner of my ear over large speakers (not floorstanding speakers, but huge bookshelf speakers with a huge speaker). And I got from them what, in principle, neither modest-sized shelf speakers, nor narrow columns of floor speakers can give, because the key word is a large woofer. It gives a sound attack, a wave that is felt by the body in a stereo panorama. Do not confuse with concert speakers, the size and volume of which shakes the room. It may have related roots, but I'm talking about the apartment and listening at a moderate volume. You can make music with good bass speakers so loud the neighbors will come running. And SOME specimens will have a lot of bass even without a subwoofer. But this is a different bass texture. There is no direct attack of the sound wave. The same goes for the sub. I even tried pointing it at myself. The sub does not play according to that principle, there is a lot of bass, but there is no pressure and directionality, because a stereo pair that attacks you with a low-frequency sound wave and just a low frequency that fills the room everywhere are different things in perception. I decided to find a directed wave attack for a reasonable price.

I say right away, not a single narrow column, where the woofers were of a smaller diameter, does not give that effect. It's physics and you can't argue against it. A plus is the execution of the "closed box". But the latter, of course, does not solve it, but it helps to make the bottoms without the hum that is characteristic of the phase inverter performance.

I can state that I got what I wanted, but of course you have to pay for everything. Either money or compromise. Such a compromise was some loss in the midrange and treble (only in comparison with very good shelf speakers!). No, not a total loss. They are not deaf at all. They are just flat and comfortable. SOME songs seem different at first. I slightly corrected the timbre on the amp, and everything became as I want.
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Pros

+ bass, bass delivery + comfortable sound, not screaming, rather smooth. + omnivorous with some reservations (read in the cons, but remember that these are not cons in an explicit form, but their own individual character of the sound, which you need to get used to and still need to cope with), but best of all they are given "meat" genres and that music, where bass guitar or double bass, cello, bass drum play an important role. Well, you get the idea) Don't get me wrong, other genres are also well performed, and you won't feel left out in them. At least because most often several instruments are used in music, and if you caught somewhere that other speakers play one better, then you will hear that everything has changed, there has been a “shift of the center of attention”, and now other parts are singing. For example, I suddenly found out that the song Nightwish - Beauty Of The Beast in the low frequency range during the "meat" is not just buzzing, depicting "meat", but actually contains meat that is quite resolvable by the ear, and plus there is a bass drum quite clear comes into play, and not just thumps, as I had with a subwoofer. + high sensitivity, and this is not just a TTX number, it is true, it is audible when you listen to them at a very low volume - the bottoms do not go anywhere, they decrease in adequate proportion along with other frequencies, which means you get them in enough even at the lowest volume. And that doesn't happen very often. More often, for speakers to build up the lower case, you have to add volume to a certain level (in physical terms, bring more power). + they have a wide stage, plus they give a vocalist from the speaker line, i. E. closer to the viewer. After listening to a number of other speakers, I often encountered a scene pushed back, and when I tried to spread the speakers wider, the scene generally fell apart, was torn apart. KEFs, placed wide, wide and play, while the stage is solid. They create the effect of the scale of the sound. So not a single frequency response .

Cons

- If you place them and sit in the wrong place, you will get a mountain of low-frequency array. You need to position yourself so that your ears are in the center of the hall (away from walls and corners) at about the level of tweeters. Otherwise - a dump from the woofer. - Not the brightest treble and midrange speakers by default. Sometimes it's noticeable, sometimes not at all. Depends on the track. For example, Zhenya Lyubich's "Galaxy" is not instrumentally rich, but a certain cosmic atmosphere is created there due to the combination of low sounds, simple for a subwoofer, and a melodious voice. My bookshelves, being very bright and with an open transparent middle, along with a subwoofer (without a subwoofer they are TOO weak on the bottoms), they perform such a song more beautifully. Kefas don't give up either, but if you're used to such a wonderful vocal opening, then at first you'll miss it a little. Not everywhere. Sarah Brightman sings on kefs without equalization so that you can't find fault. Joe Cocker and Chris Rea acquire an additional velvety voice on kefs. Melody Gardo a number of songs makes you want to return to the bookshelves because of the better study of the vocals. But Melody Gardot - Your Heart Is As Black As Night started playing and without any complaints at all. Ozzy - See You on the Other Side. I always listened like this: I start at a high volume, then I lower it on the meat, because the vocal cuts my ears. On kef without equalization does not cut anything. Still, these speakers need some light EQ for listening at medium volume. Pull up the top a little and reduce the bottoms a little, then they will sing in general cool, it will be difficult to find fault if you are used to bright ones. I found a frequency of 110Hz, which gives a rumble. Having tidied it up, I even returned the other bottoms to their place (before that, I turned it down), and generally added tops barely noticeably, and they played amazingly. But if you turn it on very loudly, you need to return the top to zero (leave 110Hz reduced) so that the ears are comfortable. Worst of all with symphonic classics. They were definitely not made for her. They can play it, but you won't get what they give in other genres, and what SOME other speakers give in classics.