LS50 II Wireless

I have the LS50 W II’s. They are a much higher end design than the Coda. The LS50 W2’s have almost 4 times as much power and the higher end cabinets and drivers of the LS50 Meta. I see the LS50 wireless are now on sale for $1,999.99

For a give cabinet and drivers the active speakers give a greater range, more bass and lower cost than the passive version. LS50 Meta with an amp that is in total double the cost of the Kef LS50 II wireless is claimed to be better. Kef themselves claim that they could not make a passive version of t

Go with active speakers, as others have suggested. I’d say there are three issues to consider when thinking about what to buy. First, your room at roughly 15’ x 25’ is not small. Quite a few active speakers in your budget are best suited for small rooms or for nearfield listening, where the speakers

Sounds like you might need a different receiver/amp. Just got a pair of the powered LS50 Wireless II’s and I’ve been very impressed with them. The powered units come with 380W each of amplification built in. You may just need more power to be able to drive them.

Why not LS50 Wireless II? That would be a more distinct upgrade on every level, especially with integrated and optimized amplification and wireless capabilities designed as a system and built that way. The LS50 W IIs have a bunch of inputs, optical, USB-C, AUX and HDMI eARC. Also, each speaker has a

I'm a huge believer in dedicated amp and dsp, so ls50 wireless ii would be my choice at this time. I'd rather have tuneable dsp to integrate between drivers and parametric for each driver, but today at that price point I think the kefs are the best that can be done. I haven't heard dirac but I'm a h

If you are an iPhone user you can install Google Chromecast and test also uPnP. I have run TuneBlade on my PC hoping for the low latency Airplay 2 gets via Apple 4K TV but no luck. uPnP, DLNA and Chromecasts sound better then Airplay 2. WiSA is even better and the speakers much improved using WiSA t

Only the ls50 wireless ii. The ls50 meta (or original LS50) require a separate amp. I do also find wireless to be a bit of a misnomer, since you no longer require speaker cabling but now require a power cable plus how ever you choose to feed them (which could be over wifi/bluetooth).

It should be the vice versa actually. There ain't any better amp for ls50, other than the integrated ones in wireless 2. Simply because you can't bi-amp kef ls50 meta, you have to use a single amplifier and rely on the passive crossover. Ls50 W2 is bi-amped with active crossover, hence it has much m

Haha yeah, the dealer for Audio Vector / higher-end gear turned out to be a bit stiff on pricing. All the QR3 SEs were open-box demos. Retail is $3,600 CAD and he wouldn’t go beyond ~35% off — I was hoping closer to 40%. He also mentioned prices are going up another ~$400 in the new year, so that di