I have a pair of KEF 107/2's and the matching cube. One of the cuts I use for auditioning speakers is "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" by Manhattan Transfer. The 107/2's rendition is magnificent. Listen to how clear the transition from the group to a single male voice followed by a single female voice just about 2:30 into the song. At the time most all other speakers failed to sound as good. In my old house I had one room for both audio and video. Even with the cube I didn't think the low bass was good enough for some movies so I used a sub and shelved the cube. Excellent sound for me. My new house has separate audio and video rooms so I bought an old pair of NEAR speakers to temporarily use for video. When I buy a set of speakers for audio the KEF's will go back to the video room and be reunited with my 15" Klipsch subwoofer. To sum up, what's your primary use for the speakers and how room filling do you like the bass?
KEF 107 without Kube
I'm about to buy a set of KEF 107s without the Kube. My understanding is the Kube basically bumps up the bass to make the speaker more flat and lacks bass/body/punch without it. Then I also hear that the Kube negatively affects the mids/highs according to many owners. Is fixing this as easy as just bumping up the bass knob or do I really need to employ my miniDSP that I don't want to put in the chain? Actually, I'll be using my Mcintosh ma7900 integrated so I don't think I can put the miniDSP in the chain anyway.
Woofers have been refoamed and tweeters have new fluid.. Nothing else has been done as far as wiring and crossovers.
Thoughts on these without the Kube? Or any other good mods?
Woofers have been refoamed and tweeters have new fluid.. Nothing else has been done as far as wiring and crossovers.
Thoughts on these without the Kube? Or any other good mods?