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Item: KEF Blade Speakers - Ex Showroom Demo - Location: SAVI Systems Showroom, 1168 Albany Hwy, Bentley, W.A. Price: $31 199 $48 899 Item Condition: Ex-Showroom Demo - No Boxes - Full Manufacturer's Warranty - Excellent Condition Payment Method: Direct Deposit, Pickup in store, Visa, Mastercard with no fees or penalties Extra Info: These are pick up in-store only - Postage is not Available to the physical size/weight and dollar value. We no longer have the boxes, however, the original owner's manual and frequency response graph for this pair are included. KEF’s Blade celebrates 50 years of loudspeaker innovation with the most dramatic leap forward in decades - The Kef Blades. These are a statement product, and are destined to go down in the Audio Hall of Fame as one of the most iconic looking - and superlative performing Hi-Fi speakers of recent times - and here is you opportunity to get an EX-DEMO pair in perfect condition for a massive discount off the normal price. Sonic Statement The Blade is very much a visual, as well as a sonic statement, and as such won’t appeal to everyone.But the bottom line is that this loudspeaker is a truly impressive technological achievement, stuffed with clever ideas that come together to deliver exceptional performance throughout the whole audio band. While the stereo imaging is its most outstanding and obvious characteristic, it’s also always very informative and entertaining across the whole gamut of musical styles and genres, and works well with speech and movie soundtracks, too. Despite its considerable surface area, there’s no evidence of any enclosure coloration here, either as a result of vibrations generated within the structure itself, or as an acoustic consequence of the shape of the front baffle. That is reflected in both an impressive freedom from any boxiness – or indeed any tendency for the image to cluster around the speakers – and in an exceptionally wide dynamic range, due to a freedom from low-level ‘hash’ The latter, in particular, gives exceptional results with classical material and choral performances, where the accurate rendition of low-level ambience plays a crucial part in creating an effective illusion. Stunning Stereo Certainly the first thing one notices on connecting up and playing the Blade is its stunning stereo imaging– tightly focused and precisely layered, with convincing depth perspectives and accurate lateral locations. It did at first seem a little strange, or at least unusual, to find all the sound emanating from a point source a metre off the ground, But if this is what a ‘single apparent source’ is able to do, then we ought to have a whole lot more of it. Although the best image is inevitably available for those occupying a ‘hot seat’ equidistant from the two speakers, the Blade still gives a remarkably good image around and between the speakers. Furthermore, walk around the room and the character of the sound remains very consistent and stable, which is actually quite remarkable when compared to nearly all the competition. The tonal balance is beautifully smooth, open, evenhanded and neutral as long as your room is big enough to handle them. The photos attached are taken in our show room and are of the actual pair for sale. Please contact me with any questions. Pictures: