“If you’re making an active speaker, it doesn’t necessarily make sense to do the driver or acoustic design in the same way you would with a passive.” Those words were, post pleasantries, the first uttered by Jack Oclee-Brown, vice president of technology at KEF, during our recent conversation with him. And they encapsulate the ethos behind, and effort that has gone into, the company’s latest product, the mighty LS60 Wireless.
This all-in-one active floorstanding speaker system is a world away from anything in KEF’s passive speaker catalogue; a ground-up design that, despite inheriting existing KEF technologies, is like nothing else we have seen currently on the market.
You only need to look at these speakers (right) to appreciate their radical design. Two super-slim towers, the width of a CD and mid-waist in height, with a miniaturised Uni-Q driver on the baffle and two mid/bass drivers on each of the side panels. KEF has received much acclaim for its more aesthetically conventional active standmounter systems – the LS50 Wireless and smaller LSX – but adapting
