KEF LSX

There is, truly, no substitute for stereo reproduction when it comes to delivering music the way it was designed to be heard. The first stereo demonstration was made in 1881, with Clément Ader’s stereo telephone headsets delivering sound direct from the Paris Opera. British engineer Alan Blumlein at EMI extended the idea to speakers in the 1930s after watching early talkies movies where the sound didn’t follow the on-screen movements of the actor. Stereo went via tape to the LP in 1957, and has been the mainstay of hi-fi ever since. And yet today the trend towards smaller wireless speakers has led to a regression back to mono, or at least one-box stereo, which is not much better.

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