KEF LS50 Meta

My local dealer has offered to let me demo them at home for a couple days when they get them next week. If it happens I'll post thoughts here.

Our new monitors are in a class by themselvelves nonene has ever produced a cabinet like this think 30k to 50k sound for 3500 when uzed with a good subbwoofer

You will be hearing ing our setups at axponna when the shows start again our sub monitor Package is goiing after Wilson and magico for 15k with bass down to 10 hz and tuneable to match the room size

Our monitors are totally unique in terms of clarity and imaging state of the art the enclosure does not vibrate or resonante at all the material is50 trimes more inert than mdf or aluminium total game changer

I curious about these and what sensitivity they will have. They sound interesting.

However, isn't cabinet resonance different from backwave energy? Sounds like the meta material in the KEF is designed to absorb backwave energy resulting in a more open, detailed sound. I guess cabinet resonance and backwave energy can manifest in similar ways (i.e. smeared detail and loss of texture), but even an anti-resonant cabinet has to deal with backwave pressure and secondary energy leaking back out of the driver. I'm certainly not a designer or engineer, just thinking about this from a layman's perspective. Sounds like KEF may be onto something that is dealing with both by having the meta materia and a rigid cabinet.

I've been listening to pair of LS50 Meta's the past few days. I am very impressed with these speakers. Are they the most accurate, detailed, or full range speakers? Nope. Are they extremely engaging and fun to listen to? YES! There is an energy in the upper frequencies that is very "live" sounding that the originals lacked. They weren't bad, but these are at another level. They have amazing imaging, which I think is KEF's calling card, and these don't dissapoint. Great depth and space. I'm using a pair of REL T5i's for bass and I haven't turned them off to listen to LS50's on their own, but I'm getting a large dynamic sound that is close to whatever floor standers I've had in my room. The first evening I listened to these I did hear a flattening or slight smearing in the upper midrange, but haven't heard it as much since so maybe some break-in helped.The rest of my system is:

Odyssey Kismet amp
Don Sachs latest preamp
PS Audio DS Jr. DAC
REL T5i subs

This weekend I'm going to bring my other my Clearwave Duet 6 monitors back out and compare. The Duet's use Accuton ceramic drivers and high end crossover components and retail for double the cost of the LS50m's. I think they are certainly more accurate and detailed, but right now I couldn't say they are more fun to listen to. We'll see...