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KEF IQ7
KEF IQ7
MSRP: $ 325.00

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Reviewed by:

Karamel

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Review Date
August 2, 2009

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

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Review 1 of 3

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
IQ7 are very neutral sounding speakers with clear midrange and airy treble. They really grow with more expensive amps and sources. The strongest quality is imaging. These loudspeakers have ability to completely disappear in the soundstage making instrumens and voices to appear as they were there in front of you, very solid and lifelike. Simply great sounding speakers and a very safe bet.

Josephs review is a very solid marketing for Rega et. al.. Joseph doesn't even own these loudspeakers and has only heard them in a store. Please, someone should delete Joseph's review from this site.


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Reviewed by:
Joseph
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Review Date
June 22, 2007

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

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Price Paid:  $600.00 from Global HiFi Newcastl

Summary:
Price is in £

Demoed these speakers in a couple of hifi shops, they are heavily marketed and advertised in many of the current HiFi magazines.

The salesman told me they were really good speakers and everyone buys them, I wasn’t impressed. They were very harsh and didn’t reveal much at all. I struggled to listen to them for long and eventually had to tell him to turn them off. They were running on a NAD CD player and an harman kardon Amp.

If you think that a pair of these is good for the money I beg you to demo them against a pair of Regas or Quads at the same price.

Strengths:
These speakers will really go laud and dont blow very easily

Weaknesses:
Poor detail and very harsh

Similar Products Used:
Rega R3 , Rega R5.
B&W, Quad and Dynaudio siminarly priced speakers from the current range


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Reviewed by:

mbrowns

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Review Date
June 15, 2006

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

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Summary:
These speakers are really outstanding for the money. KEF has made real improvements with the iQ series.

I previously owned some KEF speakers from the Q.2 series featuring the improved 4th generation Uni-Q driver. I thought they sounded really good -- and they do. See the reviews on this site for the Q15.2, Q35.2, Q65.2, etc.

The new iQ series features a 6th generation Uni-Q driver and the KEF website details the changes and extolls the virtues of them. You never know if those "improvements" result in sonic differences or if it's just a bunch of marketing bunk.

Well, I'm here to say the new iQ range definitely has sonic improvements. The iQ7's I have now are sonically superior in just about every way. The imaging, clarity, and range are truly beautiful. One word of warning: you better have some high quality recordings on hand to hear what these can really do!

Strengths:
Many strengths for the price point. Incredible imaging and vocal clarity and neutrality. Good separation of different instruments/voices.

Weaknesses:
The curved cabinet results in a speaker which is somewhat wobbly. I'm worried about a child knocking them over and damaging the speaker or the child.


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