KEF updates its R-series speaker lineup with noise-reducing tech

British speaker producer KEF has up to date its R-series loudspeakers with a brand new Meta line that includes seven fashions, together with three floor-standing speaker choices, bookshelf audio system, two heart speaker choices, and up-firing encompass audio system.

Meta is brief for Metamaterial Absorption Know-how (aka MAT), which KEF first launched in its LS50 audio system in 2020. MAT is a extremely complicated maze-like construction the place every of the intricate channels effectively absorbs a selected frequency. KEF describes the general impact as an “acoustic black gap” that absorbs 99 p.c of the undesirable sound from the rear of the tweeter, which in flip eliminates distortion to supply a purer, extra pure acoustic efficiency.

KEF

The brand new R-series additionally options KEF’s 12^th-generation Uni-Q coincident driver know-how, which contains a tweeter and woofer sharing the identical acoustic heart. This design was first launched in 1988. KEF says the R-series additionally contains a versatile Decoupling Chassis to stop stray vibrations and yield higher readability.

The brand new audio system can be found in a alternative of three finishes: Black Gloss, White Gloss, and Walnut. Two of the audio system can be found in different finishes as nicely: There’s a Titanium Gloss Particular Version for the R7 Meta floor-standing audio system, and an Indigo Gloss Particular Version for the R3 Meta bookshelf audio system.

KEF

The R Meta line has trio of floor-standing audio system: the R11 Meta ($3,250 every), R7 Meta ($2,500 every), and R5 Meta ($2,000 every). The R3 Meta bookshelf audio system are $2,200 a pair. There are two center-channel audio system within the line: the R6 Meta ($2,000 every) and the R2 Meta R2 ($1,400 every). The R8 up-firing audio system are $1,600 a pair.

KEF means that the customers who don’t need to decide to floor-standing audio system can use three heart channel audio system in a left-center-right configuration. The R8 Meta encompass speaker will be mounted on the wall or sit on high of the floor-standing audio system. Clearly, you may ease your manner into the KEF R Meta line with only a pair of bookshelf or floor-standing audio system. A full seven-speaker home-theater array begins at $8,000 in case you go along with three heart channel audio system as an alternative of floor-standing fashions and ranges as much as $12,300 for a system that makes use of the top-of-the line R11 Meta and R6 Meta audio system.