KEF Reference 1 bass response?


Just wondering if anyone owns or has listened to the KEF Reference 1 bookshelves? I hear they are amazing speakers, but wondering if they will still have good bass response in my apartment or if I’d need a sub. Of course the answer is subjective but I’m keen to hear what everyone thinks. I’d be pairing them with a Hegel H390 and a Mytek Brooklyn DAC+

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Anyway, the deepest bass (sub 50hz) is not really present in most recordings and will mostly benefit you in terms of room atmosphere and the "blackness" of the background. Other than that, most bass is between 80 and 120 Hz, of which the Ref 1s have plenty of.

I own the Reference 3s and I heard them with the Hegel H390, it's a great pairing, I would recommend without any doubt. Hegel also happens to do the in-house listening with KEF speakers, which says a bit about the pairing.