KEF has revamped its mid-range R Series loudspeakers, offering six new designs with over 1,000 individual improvements over their predecessors. Are they really better? Read on to find out.

In the world of high-end hi-fi, loudspeakers are routinely objects of reverence and desire, no more so than KEF's recent Blade. Styled like a shark's fin and packing exquisite technology, it's the kind of speaker to make grown men weep.

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Like so many British (and, for that matter, American) ür-audio brands, KEF — originally Kent Engineering & Foundry — had its roots in the post- WWII technology boom. In KEF's case, it grew inside a Quonset hut on the grounds of the aforementioned...

In 1961, Raymond Cooke founded the company ´KEF Electronics´ on the factory premises of Kent Engineering and Foundry, with the specific goal of manufacturing speakers. With products such as the B13, successes were achieved very quickly. The next...