Are the KEF Blade/Blade 2 Metas a Significant Upgrade from Blade?

Here’s a comment from Hong Kong on the Blade One Meta, making some comparisons to the original Blade One: "What a surprise!!! KEF’s previous Blades are not my cup of tea. I personally think that they are a bit clinical and uninvolving. This pair of Blade One Meta is a totally diff story. They perform excellently on all hifi aspects : dynamics, freq extensions, density, soundstage ...etc, and most important of all, they are exceedingly musical!" https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/kef-blade-one-meta-a-surprise.35045/post-803870

Also here’s a very favorable new review of the Blade One Meta from Hi-Fi News which details many of the changes made from the previous version: https://www.hifinews.com/content/kef-blade-one-meta-loudspeaker

Well, that Rotel Michi mono amp must be quite an impressive design and engineering effort. While its power consumption is rated at 1,200 watts it somehow manages to output 1,800 watts into 4 ohms. A Class A/B amp cannot output more power than it consumes so I suspect its ratings are somewhat "optimistic".