KEF Blade or Blade 2

If you’re going to axpona you can come over and listen to mine, I’m 20 minutes from the hotel 

I played that track, Santana/Steve Winwood on the blade 1 non meta and there's no sibilance to be heard. From the early Uniq drivers sibilance was an issue and kef finally fixed it with the Blade and it seems backwards that they would reintroduce that specific and easy to notice problem...Makes me wonder if the new blade meta's are more sensitive to placement.

Did you change your screen name? I know i'm late, I forget to check in. With the Blade meta's out I think the original Blade's are a flat out bargain. I stayed away from them for years because the first write up I read I think the journalist claimed the speakers were being driven by 4 JC1 mono blocks!!! I put my hegel h360 on my pair and totally enjoyed them. My only concern for these tall speakers would be around little children as kef didn't offer out riggers or dust covers. I started my speaker upgrade in 2015 and bought and resold at least a half a dozen used speakers in this price range. I'm not bold enough to predict what someone else will prefer and all the other speakers I tried were legit. The Blades belong on the list of speakers in this price range.  

Did you ever get to demo the Blade? I went from 300 wpc to 600 wpc and the difference was stunning. The speakers had decent dynamics with the 300 watt piece, but were completely opened up with the 600 watt monoblocks. Every aspect of the presentation was improved. 

Doing a google search on some product led me to an agon post that was clearly written by me back in the phone modem days with a different screen name and email address I'd completely forgotten about. Thanks for clarifying.

I was also one that tried the h590 on the blades and when I moved to the Mac Mc611's and a c49 pre I was also startled by how much more textured and layered... I need to dig out my old stereophile dictionary to find the words. Suffice to say, while decent electronics will offer a glimpse into what the blades offer the modest move from the h590 to the relatively affordable Mac separates showed enough improvement to convince me there's plenty of untapped potential in the original Blade to justify postponing any Blade meta upgrade until the rest of my system is complete.  

2 posts talking smack. welcome to the forum troll.

IDK, Before selling my r107/2’s I opened them up to a-b the xover components with each other. 25-30 years old all the caps were wrapped in a black plastic wrap that said kef on them so I had no way of knowing how well they were made? individually they still measured alike and were hand soldiered on a board so I figured they were good, possibly I don’t know what to look for?