KEF Blade Two - Unbelieveable

I have the blade’s in a 17x27x7’ basement listening room and they are special. A H360 drives them with an affordable mqa dac I use to stream tidal. A larger room might require more power but this system sounds amazing. I think meta in the blades would be redundant after reading up on their website. Over the last 7 years I’ve been buying some really great speakers....These are staying!

^^^ any specific Gryphon amp? tia

The comparison with the magico isn't surprising to me. I haven't heard them but listener impressions are pretty consistent. Since the blades are the most expensive speakers i've heard outside a show i'll trust the experiences from both of you. I'm very fortunate to have these speakers that came up for sale 15 minutes from my house at only a year old and very close to half price.

Idk, I thought the persona 7f had the highest resolution to date and while the presentation couldn’t be more different, i never thought the blades lacked resolution? Maybe it’s that insane soundstage tricking me?  These are end game speakers.

I’m using a hegel H360 and can comfortably drive them to 100-105 db peaks, but the guys that know the business say my speakers would sound better with better power. 

I don’t doubt these speakers are being held back in my system, The hegel h360 is doing the job good enough, but the dealer I bought it from has a H590 store demo that we were starting to talk about that I will be trying at home shortly after Xmas. That will be interesting. 

Big twin, thanks for the heads up, the speakers are bought used because I’m playing out of my league so getting the components right is important.

yyz, After having the blades awhile I went to a dealer that had the blade 2’s and was surprised at how much smaller they were, only 5’’ shorter but considerably less deep and the style is less imposing than the reference 5, but if it was me I would either buy used at a price I can recoup or stick with the NS5000. My blades are nearly 5’ from any reflecting surface! 

or leave California, lol

I don’t want to stray too much but what is a smart purchase to replace the dac in the h360 or 590?

Do you have a way to compare the H590 with the Blades? If a used H30 was available it might be worth a try, my only concern with hegel is local service.

What if you woke up with a half a million more than you went to bed with, personally, I would keep the blades. I might start looking for a better house to put them in, but the speakers are as good as I can appreciate.

bit of a bump,  Instead of reselling these Blade's, probably the last off the production line before kef moved to the Meta tech I put a couple MC611's on them and there's no doubt in my mind that upgrade made a bigger difference than moving to the blade metas. There's just something fundamentally 'right' about how they sound and these amps brought out more bass detail and while the size of the soundstage was always boundaryless it's gotten more depth and detail with good recordings. There's a review on the meta's suggesting tracks with nasal vocals will be less pleasant , something I experienced with the old R105/3 and has no trace of in the original Blade. That and the fact that new speaker demos don't leave me wanting anymore only confirm these truly prove to remain endgame for me. If I find something that bumps these off the podium ya'll will be the first to know.