KEF Reference 1 v 107/2

stevet59, I augment the KEF Reference 1s below 80 Hz by a pair of Velodyne HGS-15s with SMS-1 acoustic room correction, I’m unaware of the subs except when they do something I know the KEFs can’t do, e.g. vibration from a low pipe organ pedal note.

As noted above, the KEFs are high-passed at 80 Hz by a passive balanced Marchand filter.

My one complaint about the Reference 1s was that large orchestrations didn’t scale as I remembered with the 107/2s, but the addition of the subs cured that. The setup can sound very large when called for, yet remain delicate for the small jazz and baroque groups I prefer.

I had the R107/2 with kube and for the day they were a good value. Matched veneers, output matching to .5 db and flat bass to 20hz without the typical woofer boost at 100 hz. The 107/2 was colored though, a bit bright up top with a little chestyness in the low mids, still really competitive for the time. The ref 1 impresses with the midrange presentation, upper midrange energy and detail really brings drum kits to life, but no deep bass and cymbals will sound softer in comparison. I like the direction kef has taken but the‘British’ sound is gone and you’ll need a sub(or 2) to get r107 bass. You can connect the kube between the ayre pre and amp to use your existing speakers 

Curiuosjim I think I tried to just share my 0.2 cents regarding the kef cube. If I have the answer to his question? I will.

No 

@jayctoy 

Okay, but is that his question??

Curiousjim if I remember the kef cube does make the 107 sound better, my friend said it has a room correction ability. My experience the 107 they sound better with it, The have a better and wider soundstage.This is my audio mentor system.So I did grew up listening with the 107.

I’m not tracking. What does the Kube have to do with KEF 107’s or Reference speakers?

The point of my previous post was I never compared the Reference 1s with the 107/2s.  Anybody made that comparison?  Anybody with experience in inserting a KEF KUBE between an Ayre preamp and amp?