KEF LS60 v Reference 1s


Has anyone compared the sound of KEF LS60 with pre-meta Reference 1s?  My Reference 1s are driven by Ayre gear.

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We take it you are thinking of swapping the reference 1s for the Ls60s?

 

honestly they are very different speakers keep the ref ones and add a good

 

Dave and Troy

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If the missing text was and add a good subwoofer, the Reference 1s are augmented by a pair of Velodyne HGS-15s with acoustic room correction via an SMS-1. I'm now thinking of replacing the LS50 W2 with LS60. Thanks for the advice. The Reference 1s with a rack of Ayre gear is a hard act to follow.

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I had demo of Ref 3 metas, r11 metas and ls60s recently.

All good and similar sounding in many ways but of course each radically different in physical construction.

I liked them all very much!

Main appeal for ls60s would be conserving space, cost, especially at current price, and overall value. You get a lot for your money. They are all-in-1 design of course, overachievers in terms of sound quality for their size and relatively easy to handle, set-up, and use.

Ref 3 metas were exquisite sounding. The other two were both pretty close.

 

I run ls50 metas + sub currently in a smaller room and that combo can compete quite well up to about 90db SPL or so, which is all I need mostly these days.