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KEF iQ1 2-Way Bookshelf Speakers (Black Ash) | 
 enlarge | Brand: KEF
Category: CE
List Price: $349.99
Buy New: $195.86
You Save: $154.13 (44%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Color: Black Ash
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 24
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7 x 12
MPN: iQ1 - Black Ash
Model: iQ1 - Black Ash
UPC: 637203022272
EAN: 0637203022272
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Two-way bass reflex design; elegant black ash wood finish | | • | Drive units: 130mm (5-1/4 inch) Uni-Q, 19mm (3/4 inch) aluminum dome HF | | • | Frequency response: 50Hz - 40kHz | | • | Sensitivity (2.83V/1m): 88dB | | • | Dimensions (HxWxD): 11.8 x 6.9 x 10.3 inches |
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Product Description
If you want to create a rich, expansive soundscape in a smaller room without compromising sonic accuracy, iQ1 delivers the full benefit of KEF's latest design thinking. With the sophisticated Uni-Q coincident driver array in a compact reflex-ported cabinet, you experience stunningly clear vocals, fluid midrange, and an unusually spacious 3D sound image no matter where you sit. Being magnetically shielded like the rest of the iQ line-up, they're as easy to place as they are to drive. Everything from the titanium surface of the Uni-Q cones to the shrouded bi-wire terminals says 'quality' - and for music or movies, that's the word that defines exactly how iQ1 sounds.
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| Customer Reviews:
Best Hi-Fi speaker for under $400 February 21, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
1. on sound
The KEF iQ1 is relatively small, but being KEF, it delivers! I have a couple of reference monitor speakers and monitor headphones from likes of M-audio and Sennheiser to compare. No 2.0 bookshelf loudspeaker has ever come so close to reproduce details as the monitor headphones or the studio monitors. I find myself hearing notes I've never heard of in familiar songs I've listened for months and years that I thought were heard quite thoroughly. This maybe because of the rated 40,000 kHz range which doubles ordinary speakers that maxes out at 20,000kHz (the hearing limit of us homo-sapiens) you are able to have more high notes headroom if you are able to hear them. I'm starting to notice that speakers are a little like wine, every other one behaves a little differently and the KEF has beautiful coloration, 3d space, and detail, serious detail in fact. Although lacking on the bass, which I cannot complain the driver is only 5-1/4 and I'm not using a sub-woofer, the Mids and Highs are wonderful (KEF includes in the package, a little foam unit to fit the flared front port which I believe increases the internal pressure to have more perception of bass - I did it and bass is immediately louder). You should also start to encode your MP3s at double the bit-rates you previously have, or even better, no compression at all and use CDs or Audio DVDs because you will hear literally everything on the tracks due to the accuracy of the iQ1 and if the encoding compression is crap the crapness will come through. Even though my receiver only outputs 35w to each unit, it's still able. This is a very ABLE speaker!
2. On design
everyone who has been to my apartment runs first, to the speaker pair.
great conversation piece. beats any speaker designs out there for me.
Amazing little speakers November 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purchase this over the iQ3, main reason is size, besides the iQ3 has only 5Hz of advantage in low frequency. I am so happy with the choice. After all you won't get sufficient bass with bookshelves unless their are bigger than floor standings. Just a little comparison, the B&W 685 has a 6.5" woofer, but has the same frequency response as this 5.25" iQ1. I used it with a Denon amp and a NAD 521bee CD. I am very happy with its performance, despite they are not fully burnt-in yet. Absolutely stunning low frequency for the size. Its ability to move air is so amazing that I keep thinking I have a sub. Mids are well balanced and highs are clear, not fatigue at all. Although the image and sound stage did not sound as good as the b&w, maybe this is due to the amplifier (I audit the 685 with McIntosh Amps) and/or the speakers not fully burnt-in yet. The 685 is 680 a pair, at 200 for this. I have no complaint. 5 stars, highly recommend.
By the way, do bi-wire it when possible. Much better response.
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