Gloss white floor standers

Looking nice mate. I was looking at those, are they the older 3050 in gloss, not the 3050i?
I got some kef q550 in white. Really REALLY wanted that piano white gloss finish on the kef r500, but the amp to run them properly would have cost an extra £1000 or so. I looked into painting them but piano white is a hell of a lot of work.

No idea who said they wouldn't touch the speakers with wrap... They're easy to wrap as others have said. I'm considering trying it with much more weirdly shaped kefs soon, will post here if I remember.

I really don't get the HiFi world with setting speakers to small... All it does it stops your fronts from producing bass and sends it all to the sub.
Not sure about you but I love the bass my kefs produce (although there's not a lot). Still sounds perfectly balanced (if not more) than even a "accurate" Bowers & wilkins sub when both are on. Each to their own I guess. It's supposed to put less strain on amp, but Meh. Why bother buying floorstanders if you're just gonna use them as tweeters/high mids?
 
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slim01 said:
Looking nice mate. I was looking at those, are they the older 3050 in gloss, not the 3050i?
I got some kef q550 in white. Really REALLY wanted that piano white gloss finish on the kef r500, but the amp to run them properly would have cost an extra £1000 or so. I looked into painting them but piano white is a hell of a lot of work.

No idea who said they wouldn't touch the speakers with wrap... They're easy to wrap as others have said. I'm considering trying it with much more weirdly shaped kefs soon, will post here if I remember.

I really don't get the HiFi world with setting speakers to small... All it does it stops your fronts from producing bass and sends it all to the sub.
Not sure about you but I love the bass my kefs produce (although there's not a lot). Still sounds perfectly balanced (if not more) than even a "accurate" Bowers & wilkins sub when both are on. Each to their own I guess. It's supposed to put less strain on amp, but Meh. Why bother buying floorstanders if you're just gonna use them as tweeters/high mids?
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They are 3050is, but matte. Gloss white seems like a very rare finish, only available on expensive speakers. I think the setting to small is to stop there bring too much bass, and the fact that the sub will do a better job. Also I'm not sure if the manual crossovers only work on small.
 
slim01 said:
Looking nice mate. I was looking at those, are they the older 3050 in gloss, not the 3050i?
I got some kef q550 in white. Really REALLY wanted that piano white gloss finish on the kef r500, but the amp to run them properly would have cost an extra £1000 or so. I looked into painting them but piano white is a hell of a lot of work.

No idea who said they wouldn't touch the speakers with wrap... They're easy to wrap as others have said. I'm considering trying it with much more weirdly shaped kefs soon, will post here if I remember.

I really don't get the HiFi world with setting speakers to small... All it does it stops your fronts from producing bass and sends it all to the sub.
Not sure about you but I love the bass my kefs produce (although there's not a lot). Still sounds perfectly balanced (if not more) than even a "accurate" Bowers & wilkins sub when both are on. Each to their own I guess. It's supposed to put less strain on amp, but Meh. Why bother buying floorstanders if you're just gonna use them as tweeters/high mids?
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Crossover isn't a brick wall so bass under that is being sent to the speakers just with 12db slope per octave

For music from cd it's ok to set floorstanders and standmounts to large

But for movies under no circumstances set to large. There's full range bass 20hz and lower hardly any speakers can handle that also demands on your amp are far higher.


I have much bigger main speakers than you and reach down to 32hz and likely more power 300w into 4 ohm and I still use small setting. I'd set your speakers to no lower than small 60hz
 
Also since your mains go down to 60hz, then that portion between 20-60hz is either missing or played at much lower level with vast amounts of harmonic and amplifier distortion

It's one thing if you had true full range speakers like 15" woofers in them and designed to be substitute for a sub, but yours aren't. Some definitive technology do have subwoofers built into them.

I presume you're using a mid range avr so that is taxing the already average amplifiers. It's not like you have 500w monoblocs.But even if you did, it would still be better to use small 60hz for your kef floorstanders
 
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