LSX II LT

Costco now selling KEF LSX II LT for $500 - and there's a reason. Their app, connectivity, etc...totally sucks! Right up there with VW getting pop'd for manipulating emissions via software....LOL. KEF is a marketing machine, and I suspect they "gift" many of their reviewers! While I am not an audiop

No the LSX II without the LT won’t work either because you double convert. You already have a DAC in the audio interfece which will convert digital to analog, then the speakers will again have to convert because they expect digital signal. KEF is not what you are looking for with an audio interface,

With many products they sell us what they can make and not what we want. The Kef LSX II LT is the lite, cut down version and been offered at a discount to further flavour the pot. It is designed for desktop, near field and even the earliest reviews suggested it did not fill a large room for that you

It’s bit of a mismatch if you are going to go with KEF LSX II or LSX II LT (EAC review), and then add miniDSP. Then all of that streaming, input selection, etc. features in your KEF are not going to be used. You would either want to go with those KEF speakers, or the more suitable for longer listeni