KEF Blade 2

yyzsantabarbara, I thought you decided your room was too small and you were leaning towards the ns5000? did I get you mixed up with another member?

I have me blades on usam, but I also have a pair of meridian dsp 8000se speakers with 2-3 years warranty left I'll also be putting up for sale. whichever sells first will decide what pair I keep. Next month i'll hear the meta's and will be able to compare them 

Odds are if you've had the 802d's awhile you're used to their tonal balance changing brands will probably sound off regardless of the brand.

soix, I'm not suggesting the b&w are better than anything. I'm sayin' if he liked them enough to buy them and owm em for awhile their sound has become his benchmark and more natural sounding speakers will probably sound dull or just a little off to him. 

soix, I'm not suggesting the b&w are better than anything. I'm sayin' if he liked them enough to buy them and owm em for awhile their sound has become his benchmark and more natural sounding speakers will probably sound dull or just a little off to him. 

soix... let me guess you like JA speakers? good for you. the OP asked about kef blade 2 as a replacement to his B&W's. It's no secret b&w tweaks their speakers to sound brighter/more exciting than brands that try for flat in room response. 

Your reply might matter if he was asking about a couple speakers he didn't know about, but this gent owns the 802's and you've gotten up on your high horse and started slamming them. nice.

Thanks for the lead, I’ll try to find a M900 

The kef blade are exceptional sounding, but not in your face upper mids like b&w so it would be an adjustment.

It will be interesting to do a side by side comparison 

Kef announced the meta treatment for the blades thursday. A $3k price hike came with it. I got warning about the coming event and actually could have sold my blades before the announcement, but I enjoy these so much I can't see upgrading them just for the sake of it. maybe the meta's are better, maybe just different, idk

I do know my listening room sounds great and I don't want to mess with it.

For the sake of the sale the salesman would say what he did. He is right though. The blade1 and 2 mid have a 3" voice coil and a uniquely vented magnet for the backwave of the mid and tweeter that made the blade speakers different from the reference uni-q. Now the ref and blade meta's share the same uni-q driver. meta is a different way to deal with the backwave and the guys on the science forum have some measurements that show some differences, when I asked if any of the measurements could be translated into differences we could hear nobody there said yes or no. Imo you made a smart buy and I bought my blades last summer fairly confident a meta was in the pipeline.

I have no idea what you just said but it makes me like the exclusivity of the blade1 even more now. Is it possible meta is a cheaper way to deal with the backwave than kef used with the original? As an owner I may hang on to that awhile.

Being a blade 1 owner I’ve listed m blade 1, but I still listen and can’t hear anything that needs improvement. In my room speakers usually fail at something so it’ll be interesting to see what meta brings to the party.