Product Description
From The Formidable KEF Comes A Formidable
Surround Speaker System
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| The compact Model 7
(with seven drivers in each speaker) is ideal for the minimalist look.
Voices sound real and precisely located. Ambient effects travel through a
realistic three-dimensional soundscape as the director intended. On screen
action comes alive for everyone in the room, wherever they sit. And in
line with the thinking behind the whole concept, they're exceptionally
simple to set up: just connect the supplied wiring harness to your home
theater receiver. The wiring harness allows you to output your center,
front, and rear surround cables to the two KEF Model 7 speakers. |
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Just Add Bass
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| KEF's fivetwo Series
speakers give you sound for all five channels. All you have to do is add a
subwoofer and your 5.1 system is ready to be heard loud and clear. |
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Heard And Not Seen
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Sound reproduction
should be invisible—you want surround sound, with the hardware as
unobtrusive as possible. Trouble is, conventional home theater systems
require at least five speakers and a subwoofer to be placed around the
room, regardless of how they fit with the rest of your furniture. Cables
have to be run to the rears. Before you know it, your living space looks
like a hi-fi showroom. That's why KEF came up with an alternative. As its
name implies, the new fivetwo series envelops you in the surround sound of
a full 5.1 set-up using only two speakers and a subwoofer.
The secret lies in combining KEF's acclaimed Uni-Q "sit
anywhere" driver concept with flat panel technology. Each speaker has
a front-firing array of Uni-Q drivers from the award-winning KHT5000 and
KHT6000 series, providing true dedicated center speakers as well as
spreading a highly detailed sound image to your left and right. Behind
them, large vertical flat panels act as high performance rear effect
speakers, radiating the relevant parts of the signal to the back of the
listening area. And all the channels can be separately adjusted from your
receiver to achieve a perfect balanced sound. |
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Uni-Q Array Explained...
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| KEF's KHT series
incorporates the Uni-Q technology, something originally designed for one
of the world's finest speaker models, KEF's legendary Reference Series.
With each generation of speakers, KEF expands on and improves their Uni-Q
offerings. The Uni-Q concept is based on using aerospace materials to make
the tweeter small enough to place at the acoustic center of the
bass/midrange cone. With both drive units on exactly the same axis and
sharing the same waveguide, they behave as a single point source that
projects a more natural sound image over a much larger area than the usual
tiny sweet spot. |
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And Explained...
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| The Uni-Q
configuration eliminates the inherent problems of having the separate
midrange and high frequency drive units of a conventional speaker. As
loudspeaker radiation varies according to frequency, low frequency and
high frequency drivers have intrinsically different radiation patterns
whose directivity, known as Q, changes at the crossover frequency.
Interference, or lobing, between the two units causes a dip in
power response around this frequency, with a peak above it due to their
differences in directivity. These factors introduce colorations that muddy
the sound image. You get no such problems with Uni-Q. Being coincident and
perfectly time-aligned, the directivity of both LF and HF units is
controlled by the profile of the midrange cone, with no possible path or
phase differences between the two, and no lobing interference at the
crossover. In other words, the Q is unified—hence the name Uni-Q.
So instead of narrowing toward the crossover and then widening again as is
the case with separate drive units, the Uni-Q radiation pattern remains
stable. Power response is uniform, with smoother variations on- and
off-axis. The acoustic image is better balanced and more natural sounding
across both direct and reverberant fields. Multi-channel imaging is
noticeably clearer and more accurate. |
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And Interpreted...
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| No matter where you
put the speaker, and no matter where you sit, you'll get the same rich
sound. No more bolting everything in place to make sure you're located at
the optimal listening spot. All the notes, tones, pitches, and sounds the
speakers have to offer travel in a group so you hear them all evenly,
everywhere. It's almost enough to make a person tear up. |
This
product was tested by KEF to make sure it still works perfectly, and then
repackaged for sale at a significantly reduced price. Any scratch or dent on
these products will be only skin-deep (most canÂ’t be seen); we guarantee that
they'll perform just like brand-new. All accessories are included, along with
KEFÂ’s full 5 year warranty (1yr on amps)
*Quantities
are VERY limited and the selection changes frequently!
