KEF SPEAKERS
Of the many landmark innovations KEF has pioneered,
arguably the greatest of all is the Uni-Q point source driver array, with its
outstanding acoustic clarity and off-axis dispersion. With over twenty years of
continuous innovation and development the Uni-Q driver array achieves a level
of sound quality over a broad area simply not achieved from conventional
speakers.With Uni-Q, sounds come at you so naturally that it seems as if the
musicians or actors are actually there in front of you. Whether you are in the
centre of the room or off to one side, recordings sound uncannily real and
utterly convincing. Uni-Q achieves this because, unlike conventional speakers,
the sound that is critical to the experience comes from the same point in
space, and is produced in a controlled and continuous way over the whole audio range.
It is not easy to produce a convincing and realistic illusion of a live
performance because the sound from a high quality loudspeaker does not come
from a single source, or drive unit. Two or more units are required to
faithfully reproduce the entire audio spectrum from the low bass produced by a
concert organ or a cinema explosion, to the delicate nuances of the human voice
in the midrange right up to the shimmering treble of cymbals. Most loudspeakers
have the midrange and treble drive units mounted one above the other, so the
sound is coming from two different places, causing audio ‘confusion’ and losing
the chance of achieving a truly natural sound. With Uni-Q, the midrange and
treble units are mounted at precisely the same point in space – allowing them
to integrate perfectly and create the ideal sound field for the listener to
experience a convincingly natural sound
