Kef q950 or Public. Imagine x. X2t


Please help.    Smaller living room.    Onkoyo txnr809.  N txnr696.       Which speaker?      Can the 696 or 809 handle kef q950
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Those Kefs dip down to 3.2 ohms at certain frequencies.  But, they have a sensitivity of 91 db, so get up to higher volumes with a few watts of output.

It’s a handful for most AVRs.  I had the older Onkyo, the 876, about 50 lbs, but not sure about the Onkyo txnr809.  If it has Pre outs, you could get a 2 channel amp later on.

I have the Q750, and the Kef house sound for this line tilts to the warm side slightly, with great imaging and detail.  All the better if you can get the Q950 on sale, I received a steep discount last December.
No problem, the Q series has been continually updated and refined and I believe this is their 8th revision.

I tried to find an impedance response graph online but thus far have been unsuccessful. I found the previous version(Q900) graph and the dips are down to under 4 ohms from 90 to about 300 Hz. A fair amount of the response is under 6 ohms as well. I’d say that almost half of the frequency response is under 6 ohms.

Google Stereophile Kef Q900 review, the the specs of the two models is quite close I believe. I only went with the Q750 because my room is not large.