Any interest on here for some Active DSP design?
With our rooms here in India we should be paying more attention to this exciting area in sound reproduction. Enter the Kii Audio THREE.
Website: https://www.kiiaudio.com/for_home.php
The Kii Audio Three has been a speaker that has gained rave reviews but unfortunately did not make an impression when I first heard them at the last Bangalore show. That was perhaps an anomaly as since then the positive feedback continues to keep coming. Kal Rubinson's review (August 2017) gave some hint of greatness but it still did not register despite some pretty stellar measurements by John Atkinson.
So what has changed since then? Sometimes it takes the opinion of a reviewer whose ears you can trust. For me, Mitch Barnett's review article for Computer Audiophile really caught my attention simply because Mitch really does know a thing or two about sound. What is perhaps more compelling is that he does have the required background in DSP to maximise the potential of the Kii Three's. Surprisingly with minimal DSP he managed to post a very favourable review on these German speakers.
Read the full review here: https://www.computeraudiophile.com/ca/reviews/kii-three-loudspeaker-review-r735/
Here is an excerpt from his Conclusion:
"I hope folks get an opportunity to hear the Kii THREE’s, as an excellent example of what accurate sound reproduction “sounds” like. This speaker measures as good as it sounds and vice versa. Smooth frequency response from 21 Hz to 20 kHz with time aligned drivers, means the music arriving at one's ears matches as closely as possible to the content on the recording.
The ability for the THREE’s to be placed near or far from a boundary, without speaker boundary interference, is next level loudspeaker engineering. As mentioned before, the only other way to achieve this is soffit mounting speakers or external digital room correction software products. For some folks, hearing these speakers without speaker boundary interference may be a first, and an ear opening listening experience."
Additional Review from Srajan Ebaen at 6moons:
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/kii/1.html
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With our rooms here in India we should be paying more attention to this exciting area in sound reproduction. Enter the Kii Audio THREE.
Website: https://www.kiiaudio.com/for_home.php
The Kii Audio Three has been a speaker that has gained rave reviews but unfortunately did not make an impression when I first heard them at the last Bangalore show. That was perhaps an anomaly as since then the positive feedback continues to keep coming. Kal Rubinson's review (August 2017) gave some hint of greatness but it still did not register despite some pretty stellar measurements by John Atkinson.
So what has changed since then? Sometimes it takes the opinion of a reviewer whose ears you can trust. For me, Mitch Barnett's review article for Computer Audiophile really caught my attention simply because Mitch really does know a thing or two about sound. What is perhaps more compelling is that he does have the required background in DSP to maximise the potential of the Kii Three's. Surprisingly with minimal DSP he managed to post a very favourable review on these German speakers.
Read the full review here: https://www.computeraudiophile.com/ca/reviews/kii-three-loudspeaker-review-r735/
Here is an excerpt from his Conclusion:
"I hope folks get an opportunity to hear the Kii THREE’s, as an excellent example of what accurate sound reproduction “sounds” like. This speaker measures as good as it sounds and vice versa. Smooth frequency response from 21 Hz to 20 kHz with time aligned drivers, means the music arriving at one's ears matches as closely as possible to the content on the recording.
The ability for the THREE’s to be placed near or far from a boundary, without speaker boundary interference, is next level loudspeaker engineering. As mentioned before, the only other way to achieve this is soffit mounting speakers or external digital room correction software products. For some folks, hearing these speakers without speaker boundary interference may be a first, and an ear opening listening experience."
Additional Review from Srajan Ebaen at 6moons:
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/kii/1.html
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