KEF Blade or Giya Kaya 90/G4?


Has anyone heard the new Giya Kaya or the other two speakers mentioned?  They are competitively priced.  I sense they offer much of the same sound parameters, open, uncolored sound with a large soundstage.  Hopefully, they also offer dense, full-bodied musically interesting mids and quick/deep bass.  Are they close to SOTA (the Giya 4 is supposed to be a smaller sounding version of the Giya 1 per critics) other than in dynamics?  Can they be successfully driven by Class A/B tube amps of 70 to 125 watts?  Does the vonSchweikert VR55 Aktive offer more at double the price?  
fleschler

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Thanks for your experience.  I really prefer speakers that don't crave amp power, that are relatively efficient even if they have lower impedance curves.  That's why I don't care for B&W, Wilsons and Magicos among other reasons that they just don't sound as musically involving.  My wife liked the Blade 2 we heard and the Ultra 11 von Schweikert is her favorite but too expensive.  I want to keep my custom 125 watt Class A/B tube amps and mate them with dynamic speakers.  

It's difficult to determine what a speaker sounds like compared to another using different equipment.  Both the Giya and the Blade are modern and attractive looking to us (while the Wilson and Magico are not).  Older Audio Physic speakers also were good at disappearing but are not as dynamic or wideband as the Blades.  

I'd like to know what you think of the Kaya.  I guess the Giya 4 is too small sounding for my 25' X 23' X12.5' room.  


That’s where I read that the Giya G4 is just a smaller sounding version of the G1. Is the Kaya 90 better at lower cost?  Do they have the same amp requirements?