KEF, ProAc, Monitor Audio and others

When you would be aware of all the different properties sound is being formed at, you would have a totally different opinion about the speakers you would like and even would want to buy.

I have done thousands of test in almost 20 years. This is where I earn my money with. I do not see it as work or hobby. It goes so much further than that. Most products and even brands are not capable of creating all the different properties sound is being formed at.

The great thing about music and sound is that all the different properties of it can influence our emotion. And that is why people will always prefer that sound and stage what owns the most different properties.

When you want to reveal all the information of the recording you need an audio system what is able to reveal all the information of the recording.

But........most products and brands in audio are incomplete in properties and this is even based on facts. This means you cannot add what is missing. When a property or different properties are missing the sound and stage will always be incomplete.

When you listen to most systems the facts proof again that in almost all situations they are incomplete. Even when you listen to loudspeakers and brands in loudspeakers you will hear that most are incomplete.

I test each individual product first on DNA. Because I need to know which properties are there. When you create audio based on properties you come so much closer to how music sounds in real. Beside this it also proofs that the level in emotion and intensity is so much higher when a systems can reveal all the different properties of sound.

When you test both the Kef Referende and even Blade on stage depth, you will hear that the stage is rather flat and undeep. It even misses more properties on which sound is being formed at.

I did many shootouts between a 2D and a 3D system. All people prefered a 3D stage. This is very easy to explain. Our hearing can hear sound in a 3D spectrum. That is why it is insane that over 99% of all sold audio systems are still 2D.

In our world 2D is when a system or speaker can build up less than 1 metre of stage depth.

First you need to know all the properties of the speaker you are interested at. You need the right amps, sources, conditioners and cables to create all the different properties sound exist of.

But each single person on this planet will always choose that system what can reveal all the different properties of which sound and music are formed at. They always use the words that it is more intense, emotional and attractive to listen to. Most even call it addictive and you can see this back in the level in use of an audio system. Many say often; we can’t stop listening. This is being created by the fact that when music influences our emotion more, it creates also a different demand.

That is why we will give demoes in 2018 with real conservatorium students to explain how instruments and voices sounds in real. And what real 3D sound is and how it influecnes our emotion. We also want to show people how small and direct both voices and instruments sounds in dimension. We call it intimate focus of voices and instruments.

So we can proof that working by Tru-Fi is superior in realism and most of all that the emotion compared to any audio system what has been created by trial and error is so much more intense.

"The KEF’s are more precise with a more well defined sound stage then the Monitors, the Monitors are a bit softer sounding with the new AMT drivers, also the KEF’s are a more slender cabinet also with the KEF’s you have a bit of room control with the different ports.

This proofs that you don’t know all the properties of sound. I will lend a pair of Kef Ref 3 for a shootout against the Platinum II series. And I will video it with Sony professional. And I also will make an english version of it.

When you use the right amps, cables, sources, conditioners and cables it is very easy to outperform any Kef Reference and Blade speaker. I will proof it on facts. I dare each single person or company for a shootout with Kef.

We can create a stage depth of far over 5 metres with Monitor Audio Platinum. Beside this we can create a stunning level in diversity in height of all voices and instruments.

All the demoes (many) we auditioned with the Kef Reference and Blade proved that the stage height of voices and instruments were almost on the same height. The sage depth was always less than 1 metre. We can proof this by using many different songs. And we can proof it over and over again.

The great thing about audio is that the most convincing and realistic sound and stage will always win. Because the sound and stage what you can hear will always speak the truth!

BrownSF
Great choice with the Proacs D 48s
I bet one listen and you felt no need to hear anything else.
They play all music and sound effortless doing it.
Much of the music we listen to was mastered on them, to begin with, so
it can just seem right.
Enjoy,
JohnnyR

Interesting comment "much of the music we listen to was mastered on them." well actually no,  there was a time in the early ninties that some studios were using Proacs.

Most of the popular recordings rock and jazz were and are mastered on ATC, and if you look at ATC's website you will see just how many people are using ATC professionally and they have been the dominant force in studio's for the last 40 years, sure there are others competiting in this market, ADAM, Myer and many others.

The Yamaha NS 10M was the dominant monitor in the 1970's thanks to Bob Clearmountain's endorsement and by today's standards the NS 10M was a horribily colored speaker/

As per Proac vs Monitor vs KEF these are all great speakers and differ in tems of how they present the infomation. 

As per Proac's playing the music and sound effortless doing it all three of these speakers will do the same thing.

It will come down to Ribbon tweeter, Proac, which tend to be extremely detailed, vs AMT, Monitor Audio's, which have a slightly more laid back top end compared to a true Ribbon vs the seemless quality of having all drivers made out of the same material in the KEF, plus the soundstaging capabilites and imaging that come from a true point source.

We would say this is a hard choice all these speakers are excellent comes doesn to presentation, price, styling.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ