KEF blades 2 or Dynaudio C4?

@mountainsong
None of the above speakers are "better" than what you currently have... Kef Blades especially, are exceptionally mediocre.... C4 as with most Dynaudio are just bland..... If you are itching for new hi fi ish sounding speakers that would sound great in your room/set-up, try the new Bowers & Wilkins 703 S2 in rosewood (black finish makes them slightly  but noticeably brighter sounding, due to the polished surface)... At about $ 3200 or so, these are much more musically coherent than ANY Kefs at ANY price, especially with your amps .... Just need about 500-600 hour break in . You just need to listen to these with an open mind and ignore the equipment price/sound perception that afflicts most folks in this hobby... The Luxman amps are utterly mediocre and flat sounding as well, considering their price, as is the most modern hi fi gear from Japan .... Just my couple of cents ...

@ wcfeil
Well we are just stating our personal, subjective opinions, that is all :) .
By the way , I ve met  and spoken with  David, the Audio Doctor  many times within the last 30 years, both at  the Sound by Singer and the Innovative Audio, and after he opened his shop, and have to say that he is one of the nicest (if not the the nicest), most friendliest, patient people in the NY audio scene and in general. The fact of matter is that is we all hear differently & have different sonic priorities  when it comes to acoustical transducers, that is all... However if I were interested in any equipment that David carries , he d be my first choice by a long mile.... So I don't understand the animosity toward a fellow audiophile who also has brick/ location (too few of those left!!!) and trying to make a hard buck dealing with an obsessive compulsive crowd with so many phobias and syndromes that would have many a shrink committed. I should know, I used to be (or still am) one of those ;) . In any event  there is that Syntheisis tube  kt - 66 amp from Italy that I have been lusting over for a while, that Audio Doc carries, so may be I will pay him a visit sometime soon... ;)

@David,

The rating in the Stereophile has lost much of its meaning/cache  a long time ago, and has been just guide, nothing more ...May be to scratch some owner's egos .... You of people  should know that....We should use our own ears ... As a matter of fact same goes for Robert Harley's reviews... His rave (of most everything he he does) "reviews" are like mark of death, in the opinion of many an audiophile who have their hearing intact and some familiarity with the sound of live classical music.... Julian Hirsch (if you still remember him) would be proud.... Again strictly (not) IMHO ... :)
 Cheers  fellow inmates ....and enjoy your Sunday morning  rendezvous with your music before NFL starts...

@audiotroy
Apologies to mountainsong for getting off the topic.....
David, I almost bought the Apogee Divas from Sound by Singer in mid 90s, during one of those Apogee&mini audio show seminars that Andy Singer ’s store graciously held (and those were really educational and enlightening for young people such as myself, talk about Andy Singer’s foresight and business acumen), and Jason Bloom (RIP) conducted.... You were VERY enthusiastic about those marvelous DIVAS and rightfully so... To this very day I regret NOT buying them from you that day, but alas there were too big for those damned NYC apartments with their cramped dimensions and litigious neighbors (sigh)... Now THOSE DIVAS were a masterpiece worthy of your enthusiasm, unlike many modern day mass market sound pressure producers that would make one’s ears hurt ....

As far as the Synthesis the AT line is good, but their Metropolis integrated with kt 66 could be of the reference quality (with the Mastersound sadly having ridiculously pricing themselves into the insane regions) ... They have finally  revised the internals ( I guess they had realized that 8 kt 66 tubes half an inch away from a logic board, and crucial connections was a ticking melt down bomb, that an audiophile acquaintance of mine experienced in Italy).... But that is the subject of another discussion :)... Good listening evening to you , sir :)