KEF blades 2 or Dynaudio C4?

I just wanted to note a couple of amusing coincidences:

> and a set of uni-q that were overdriven with a 1,000 watts of power.

First: I recently blew my KEF Ref3 uni-q drivers by overdriving them with Bel Canto Ref 1000s, in a mishap that involved switching between sources with vastly different gain levels on the preamp. They're at KEF in Marlborough NJ now getting repaired.

I don't think I told @audiotroy about that, so it must be a different victim he's talking about. But when I was thinking about buying them new I did listen to them at his shop. He might come off here as a self-absorbed know-it-all, but most of us come off worse online than we are in real life. And in real life, that fella is a prince. I enjoy his posts and appreciate his advice.

Second: I bought those used KEF Ref 3 speakers from the OP @mountainsong who is also, by the way, a prince of a fella.

--Matthew

Matthew it was great having you in my shop, and it was another client that blew up a set of Uni Q drivers on a set of Ref 5 that are now our display pair and appreciate you comments," And in real life, that fella is a prince. I enjoy his posts and appreciate his advice. "
It is nice to now that some people here who actually work with me and visit my store gets to understand that we really do know our stuff.

The Kef Reference line and the Blades are pretty amazing and lifelike sounding speakers if you drive them correctly.
Dave and TroyAudio Doctor NJ

"From Audiotroy
Wcfeil, we really don't care that tatyana69 bought a pair of B&W 800d3 good for him if he liked them it is his money.
Do you think that a pair of KEF Blades or B&W 800D3 or Focal Sopra 3 or any super high end $20-35k set of loudspeaker is going to sound its best being driven by a: $3,000.00 integrated amp and $300 speaker cables? "

Is Audiotroy suggesting the dealer gave me an inappropriate demo? It seems so. Excuse me ... I am quite capable of listening to different speakers with different kit and making my conclusion that the Kef Blades are quite (very) inferior to the B&W800d3s (IMHO) for the very specific reasons I have given in my earlier post.

I was just starting to warm up to audiotroy too. Tsk tsk. What naughty behaviour.

No Tatanya you are missing the point entirely.
Over the holiday weekend I visited a dealer in another state that has a major on line presence and I had heard they did a lot of business so I had to check out their store.

They had two sound rooms. with one being an open area with a shelf which has some monitors on it and some not too expensive amp.

Their main sound room was a crammed mess, with no room to properly demonstrate expensive speakers, the setup of electronics and sources wasn’t too good either even though they has some very good brands of gear on display, there was no forethought into what they would connect to drive the speakers.

I heard the Paradigm Personas 3F and 5F in this room and both speakers sounded good but not amazing in any way, while in our shop, the speakers sound outstanding.
We demo with only one pair of speakers on deck, use $3k speaker cables, use all high end power cables, usb, and interconnects, run all gear on power conditioning and have some light room tuning this is in our medium sound room, in our Reference room we are using state of the art gear, cabling in a room 26 by 20.

Unless you take out all the variables in demoing it is hard to know what is doing what, so your choice of B&W over KEF might have been as much to do as what you heard both speakers on.

As with anything else personal taste comes down to it.

Dave and TroyAudio Doctor NJ