![]() ![]() Ever since the LS50 Wireless II was announced last fall, I’ve been pestering KEF for a review sample-after all, these speakers exemplify Simplfi’d hi-fi. I owned a pair of LS50s for several years, and loved them. When Doug Schneider reviewed the LS50 Meta for SoundStage! Hi-Fi last year, it won a Reviewers’ Choice award, and was later named a Recommended Reference Component and received our ultimate accolade, 2020’s SoundStage! Network Product of the Year Hall of Fame award. Both models feature KEF’s new Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MAT), which KEF says reduces distortion and coloration. Last year, KEF released the LS50 Meta ($1499.99/pair, all prices USD) and LS50 Wireless II ($2499.99/pair). The LS50 Wireless won a Reviewers’ Choice award when Hans Wetzel reviewed it for SoundStage! Access, followed by a 2017 SoundStage! Network Product of the Year award for-you guessed it-Exceptional Value. ![]() In his review of the original LS50 for SoundStage! Hi-Fi, Doug Schneider concluded that “the LS50 is nothing short of a masterpiece of a minimonitor, priced so that anyone serious about audio can buy a pair-and probably should.” The LS50 was subsequently named a Recommended Reference Component, and won a 2013 SoundStage! Network Product of the Year award for Exceptional Value.įour years later, KEF released an active version of the LS50, with built-in class-D and class-AB amplifiers, DAC, and network streamer. ![]() Just look at how the LS50 and its progeny have fared on the SoundStage! Network. In the 21st century, has there been a more successful, more important bookshelf loudspeaker than KEF’s LS50? I doubt it. ![]()
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