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Kef Blade or Kef Blade Two for bigger room

Hello all, I am thinking of changing my old bw 800 matrix speakers for the Kef Blade or Blade two.

My living room is 4.8m by 9.3m, with partially sloped high ceeling, and also in the middle going over into my open kitchen adding another 2.5m by 6m... 
Logically I would go for the biggest Blade to get the most and deepest bass response, as most speakers I have tried are too bass shy in my room, except for the big bw800 matrixes, which I set up in middle of the room, and sofa against wall to get bass...
Amplification are Rowland model 9T, so they should get the job done with both speakers.

However I heard from a dealer that the Blade two are better, more coherent sounding, even for bigger rooms; he claimed the big Blade sounds less coherent, with bass floating in the air somewhere and a bit disconnected from the rest...
In my personal experience I heard a Blade two driven by Electrocompaniet Nemos on a music show, im a large rectangular room, and they were brilliant, also in bass.
  i heard the big Blades at a dealer with my model 9t s and they were great as well, but strangely bass shy... room was large enough, but had sloped ceelings to the sides, and the speakers stood on small transporting rollers, so 10 cm higher then normal... Is it possible bass is better from the small blades after all??
Advice would be greatly appreciated! Maybe anyone heard them side by side in same room and with same amps?

blueskywalker

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steve59
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BUMP, Congratulations, These speakers really go under the radar and for my modest size 17'x27'x7' basement listening room the h360 drives them quite nicely. 
If you keep this thread going by posting any suggestions you find along the way..tia Steve
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Hi yyz , I think I should know your first name by now:). Check it out. I started my upgrade 6 years ago when my krell kav 300il, ie the glue that held it all together baked for the 3rd and final time, since then and in this order the kef r107/2, revel f52, salon, salon2, usher be20dmd, VA Strauss, kanta 3, meridian dsp 8000seup, persona 7f and now kef blade. All bought used and resold for very close to what I paid. The constant is the hegel h360 and roon nucleus. I still have the meridians and they are keepers also since I upgraded them to SE, but meridian dealers are hard to find and I need a new display to use them. Once they’re fully functional it’ll be decision time. I’m not rich but with banks paying .4% I decided I would enjoy my retirement money now. 

The persona’s, like the other speakers are excellent, but I can’t afford to build a system around my speakers so they had to work with what I now have and the hegel h360 and Blade are magical together, all the other speakers did something that got my interest but once home, something broke the illusion. I had a bucket list of speakers I wanted to try before deciding and the blades are the only speakers that made me crumple up the list and throw it in the trash. Woo fn’ hoo.
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