Don't forget about the March Audio Sointuva and Genelec 8361A. Both with equally as good directivity and estimated in room response. And cheaper than the Blades
I've owned both and kef ref and the 8361a isnt as good as the blade or ref. There is a problem with the midrange. The funny thing is the smaller 8341A is fine and much better. But the larger midrange on the 8351b and 8361a is problematic. If you watch the full video from this snippet they talk about it and it can been seen in the measurement's. If you want something like this get the Genelec s360.
Tad paid Kef to license the coaxial design from them. The TAD was made with KEF's help. With both of these if using a sub the TAD can go 2 or 3 db louder being beryllium. The TAD tweeter dome and midrange cone are made of beryllium and will have superior transient response, not that it's audible past 18khz but this can be seen in its ability to get to 100khz. If you listen to kick drum and cymbals the tonality vs the blade should be audible. The blade is ridiculously good but some people who have deep pockets and care more about how much euphoria you feel prefer the TAD. You cant go wrong with either but people who have lived with them will say the TAD has is more "magic" so to speak. I'm pretty sure its the only speaker with a coaxial beryllium midrange. The only other being paradigm persona which is not coaxial. The closest you can come to this is finding TAD td4003 a unicorn driver and make a speaker, it will have more dynamic range but you will be crossing the midrange over at around 500-600hz where the blade and Tad ref go all the way to 400hz. It just covers the midrange better.
Don't forget about the March Audio
Sointuva and Genelec 8361A.
Both with equally as good directivity and estimated in room response. And cheaper than the Blades
I've owned both and kef ref and the 8361a isnt as good as the blade or ref. There is a problem with the midrange. The funny thing is the smaller 8341A is fine and much better. But the larger midrange on the 8351b and 8361a is problematic. If you watch the full video from this snippet they talk about it and it can been seen in the measurement's. If you want something like this get the Genelec s360.
I also spend a lot of time on Spinorama 😆. The Kef Reference 5, and Perlisten towers like the S7T and R5T are also pretty close to the Blades.
no they are not, the perlisten dispersion is all over the place .
Measures? How do they sound?
Tad paid Kef to license the coaxial design from them. The TAD was made with KEF's help. With both of these if using a sub the TAD can go 2 or 3 db louder being beryllium. The TAD tweeter dome and midrange cone are made of beryllium and will have superior transient response, not that it's audible past 18khz but this can be seen in its ability to get to 100khz. If you listen to kick drum and cymbals the tonality vs the blade should be audible.
The blade is ridiculously good but some people who have deep pockets and care more about how much euphoria you feel prefer the TAD. You cant go wrong with either but people who have lived with them will say the TAD has is more "magic" so to speak. I'm pretty sure its the only speaker with a coaxial beryllium midrange. The only other being paradigm persona which is not coaxial.
The closest you can come to this is finding TAD td4003 a unicorn driver and make a speaker, it will have more dynamic range but you will be crossing the midrange over at around 500-600hz where the blade and Tad ref go all the way to 400hz. It just covers the midrange better.
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