Anyone have or had the kef Q950?

[MacCali]

Just curious to know any thoughts on them?

cant find any legit reviews. Just basic thoughts.

Asking cause local audio shop got a pair of demos for 1000, I see they are normally 2k a pair.

Im contemplating if I should go with my Elac uni-fi 2.0. Which is basically 2020 vs a 2017 product, not that that may play a roll. But the Elacs probably caught up technology wise.

Your thoughts?

 

[mazersteven]

Go listen to them and establish your own review

 

[ryanosaur]

Speaker technology doesn't really change that drastically.
KEF Q950 audition I did 2 years ago, along with R900 was pretty solid. Not the right speakers for me, but they sounded real nice. Half off is a great deal on those.

 

[MacCali]

Go listen to them and establish your own review

I don’t got the Elac 2.0 uf52 and I can listen to the Q950, but there’s no reference lol. Been trying to locate the Elacs for demo, but even then it would need to be together. So I can pick up on any differences.

I know the best choice is to make my own decisions with my own ears, but currently out of reach

 

[MacCali]

Speaker technology doesn't really change that drastically.
KEF Q950 audition I did 2 years ago, along with R900 was pretty solid. Not the right speakers for me, but they sounded real nice. Half off is a great deal on those.

What did you not like about them?

Specs are fairly identical, GUESSING looks like the Q950’s are harder to drive. Higher sensitivity, 8 ohm 3.8 Nom, Elac 6 ohm 5.6.

But that really means nothing, just in terms of my AVR. I went with the Elac Unifi 2.0 over Unifi because the Unifi are 4 ohms.

 

[mazersteven]

I don’t got the Elac 2.0 uf52 and I can listen to the Q950, but there’s no reference lol. Been trying to locate the Elacs for demo, but even then it would need to be together. So I can pick up on any differences.

I know the best choice is to make my own decisions with my own ears, but currently out of reach

Make a reference to whatever is available. Sometimes you just got to take a chance

 

[ryanosaur]

What did you not like about them?

I ended up with a touch of fatigue in that audition. It could be just me. It coud be that the speakers were toed in rather than perpendicular, but that soured me on KEF. Again, I stress, they sounded nice.

I've always heard that the lower end ELACs are tame/restrained... a bit too polite. I had hoped to go back and audition the Adantes, but did not get the chance before I found Philharmonic Audio.

 

[MacCali]

I ended up with a touch of fatigue in that audition. It could be just me. It coud be that the speakers were toed in rather than perpendicular, but that soured me on KEF. Again, I stress, they sounded nice.

I've always heard that the lower end ELACs are tame/restrained... a bit too polite. I had hoped to go back and audition the Adantes, but did not get the chance before I found Philharmonic Audio.

Adantes killer man, not that they good, just out of my budget even half off. Just basically budget bsing right now.

My room is small, and honestly I really like the regular Unifi 1st gen. Had a chance to hear them, Andrew Jones said he designed the Unifi 2.0 off of the Adantes with his presentation of them.

I just set up my bookshelves and with speaker stands it’s pretty tight in here already, and the base on the stands is 16x16 and I got 2 inches under my tv stand. Half inch gap between the speaker stand woofer.

Got too much going on in my room, probably best I avoided them