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From: hgcjr@utastro.UUCP (Harold G. Corwin Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: KEF 1054 speakers, info wanted
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Date: Sun, 8-Jul-84 21:57:16 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  8 21:57:16 1984
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(Djinn food)

     KEF is a major British loudspeaker manufacturer.
The 105 is their top of the line speaker, the ".4"
indicating that it is now in its 4th generation. It 
was chosen a few years ago by the BBC to reproduce 
the sound of the organ in St. Mary's Cathedral (in 
Edinburgh, Scotland) in Usher Hall about a mile away.
(The Usher Hall organ was unplayable at the time.
Rather than repair it ....)  They put 36 six of the
speakers, each one fed by a Quad 405 amp, around
the hall.  I was living in Edinburgh at the time,
and couldn't resist the spectacle, though I'm not
wild about Berlioz' Te Deum.  It came off well, 
very little electronic noise, and a LOT of good
organ music.  (KEF has a blurb about it in the 
March 84 Gramophone, p. 1119, if you want to know 
more.) 
     Price:  did you say $1400 a PAIR?  If so, you're
on to the absolutely best deal in sound anywhere.
Grab 'em!  If you said $1400 each, it's still not a
bad price -- but listen around.  Some of the domestic
speakers, to my ears at least, sound better for the
same money.  Whatever,

Good listening!

Harold G. Corwin, Jr.
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