KEF LSX
£999
Scaling something down proportionally to create a smaller replica may work for model villages and food recipes, but in speaker design the rules aren’t quite as simple.
Despite that, KEF shrunk its multi-Award-winning LS50 Wireless streaming system (see p30) down to make this miniature, half-price version.
The LSX shares its successful sibling’s blueprint as an all-in-one hi-fi system: a network streamer, Bluetooth receiver and amplification within a pair of compact stereo speakers.
But creating the LSX isn’t just a case of simply miniaturising everything in the LS50 Wireless’s anatomy and cutting the price in half. In addition to the smaller cabinets, smaller Uni-Q driver arrays and smaller, 200W amplification, some changes were made to cater for the price and size reduction.
Rather than combining a Class A/B circuit (to feed the tweeter) with
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