KEF LS-50 ... A true little gem

Love mine in my second system. Easily 3x performance based on price.
 
Just picked up a pair on Tuesday and am running them in. Sure like them better than the Harbeth P3ESR's that I had. Been comparing them to the pair of Dynaudio X12's that I gave my wife. The KEF's are the better speaker and the X12's are a nice little speaker. The LS50 on the other hand truly break new ground at the price point.
 
I am going to use my air tight ATC 2 preamp and ATM 2 amp with Velodyne dd15+ sub to drive these next time I at my bend home. I think the solid state cj350 isn't doing justice to the midrange and holography these are capable of. I think tubes may do the trick.
 
I got a pair to go in my compact system. I have very limited space, but always loved my KEFs that I used to own years ago. They arrived two days ago... all I can say is wow... AMAZING, from soft to loud, from rock to vocals... sound stage, transparent, open image speaker, best I have ever heard. And the bottom end, honestly is startling.

My McIntosh compact system drives them fantastically, and gets louder than I could ever want to listen to them... but oh so smooth!

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I was considering the blue speaker version to go with the McIntosh, but felt that the blue looked darker so decided to go with the original colors :)...
 
CDLehner said:
I have a pair of Frosted Black and Racing Red coming soon! Frosted Black, goes better in the Bedroom system I have planned for them



...but Racing Red is, RED! :cool:
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Cool setup. What are the nifty little speaker stands you have there?
 
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Show of hands, who has or still have their KEF LS50's? I have a pair coming next week in Grey.

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Since their release; I have owned (at various times...not all at once), 2 pairs of Black, 1 pair of White...and currently a pair of Black Frosted.

 
CDLehner said:
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Since their release; I have owned (at various times...not all at once), 2 pairs of Black, 1 pair of White...and currently a pair of Black Frosted.
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Ah, yes. Frosted black is awesome too. Nice.
 
I am amazed how many times I see these little speakers mentioned... reviewers are testing other equipment using the LS50s, people talking about matching up the Job amp with them, etc. I am truly amazed how often they get mentioned now that I am paying attention.

It is so nice to see that my old favorites have a speaker that appears to be taking the market by a storm!

You get yours yet Joe?

BTW- Conrad Johnson told me today that the store that advertises on Amazon bought the entire run of Classic 2 pre-amps.... I am soooo up in the air right now.... You could send me a CJ to listen to for a while to help in the decision :D....
 
Randy Myers said:
I am amazed how many times I see these little speakers mentioned... reviewers are testing other equipment using the LS50s, people talking about matching up the Job amp with them, etc. I am truly amazed how often they get mentioned now that I am paying attention.

It is so nice to see that my old favorites have a speaker that appears to be taking the market by a storm!

You get yours yet Joe?

BTW- Conrad Johnson told me today that the store that advertises on Amazon bought the entire run of Classic 2 pre-amps.... I am soooo up in the air right now.... You could send me a CJ to listen to for a while to help in the decision :D....
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Ha!

You're funny. ;)

I hope to pick up my LS-50's tomorrow, if I can take the day off. My Klipsch RP-160M's should be here Thursday. This is getting fun.

If I sent you my GAT, you'd be stuck to the ceiling and someone would have to peel you off. :)

Once you got back down, you'd immediately send me a paypal gift. I really don't want to do that to you.

Every piece of CJ gear comes with a 3-pack starter of Depends.

Spearit Sound is a good dealer and tight with CJ. Since you are getting the attenuators, it will most certainly be a great combo methinks.
 
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Yea, now I got to get the wife to accept.... she was not real with it when I brought it up last night.... even when I said I could get a couple grand more from the McIntosh than a new pre would cost me... I think she wants me to settle for a bit.... Now if I had the Mc sold well that might make a difference.... the thing is the Mc sounds incredible and is an amazing piece, just would work better using it to it's fullest instead of my not using anything but about 20% of it's abilities...

If someone made a reasonable offer for this 2 month old piece that retails for $6000 I would probably take it because the CJ would probably fit my setup better... but dam, that McIntosh is gorgeous... and growing up in Binghamton (Yes weird eh, I grew up in the shadow of the Mc factory)... I am having all kinds of conflicting emotions going on :D...
 
Oh Randy, you really are like us, me especially. I know exactly how you feel.

I think crack is less addictive than audio gear.
 
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