KEF R7 META

My pair has the titanium-painted finish with the red coax drivers and look pretty sharp.  I had the LS50's in a townhouse earlier and brought them with me when I moved into a bigger space.  The LS50's (not Metas) sounded good here and threw a remarkable wide image inn the big room but lacked depth and presence in the bigger space.  I followed reviews and the R7 Metas seemed a reasonable upgrade. After a while I added a pair of KEF KC-62 subs and they've been absolutely  seamless.  What @loomisjohnson said about integration is spot-on, as I replaced essentially all my components, each time the upgrades were analytically positive, especially the Pass INT-60.  I biwired the speakers with my old Clear Day silver cables and Blue Jeans ones on the lower frequencies.  The overall presentation is clear and very musical, the soundstage being comparable to the smaller bookshelf ones although with more height on a good recording.  I didn't consider the R11's as I thought they might be too large for the 24x18x9 space.  Maybe the subs achieve about the same thing.  BTW, I saw the white ones at an outlet here north of Houston and thought they looked cheap.  Mine don't.  Also, I still would like to have a set of planar speakers to play with.  I built a set of open-baffle Lowther/bass reflex hybrids a few years back and still miss my original CLS's.  Would be fun to play with, although my amp likely is insufficient.  Just for fun, though, playing with flawed devices!  Present setup is pretty nice.

I neglected to add:  they come alive when reasonably cranked up. I would say at least 80 Db, maybe more. Quiet listening not their forte, but with minimal neighbors, not an issue here.

Good responses all!  This is one of those rare threads with solid responses top to bottom, no BS. 

There’s one BS response with an amp recommendation. No one’s perfect. Anyway, I checked and I’ve got those Db ratings way to high. 65-70 is just fine. Didn’t know what I was about there.

I've found the R7 Metas to be a bit surprising in their ability to reveal subtle nuances of all their partnering equipment, more so than I realized or expected at first. They have have sounded very pleasant and competent with Lumxan M700 and PS Audio M1200 amps but the Decware is the one that, at least for now, has stopped the "I wonder if those other speakers would sound better" mental chatter. My wife almost always is listening with me and their wide sweet spot is appreciated. She's a big fan of the titanium grey/red driver color scheme, LOL. I agree with howardlee that they need be delivering 80db minimum volume to come alive, not at their best with background level music. That's also true of the Tidal Piano Ceras in our main system as well though. The R7s integrate very easily with a JL Audio F112 sub I had rebuilt with a number of v2 parts at JL Audio a couple years ago.