I’m genuinely torn about these speakers. On the one hand, they sound fantastic — the audio quality is exactly what you’d expect at this price point. The soundstage is wide, detailed, and engaging, and when everything works, listening to music is a real pleasure. Bought them during black friday, so they were incredible great value for money. Unfortunately, the connectivity experience seriously undermines that excellent sound. Network setup is frustrating, and the speakers frequently disconnect from Wi-Fi. Reconnecting often takes multiple attempts, and switching between sources or apps is far less seamless than it should be for a premium product. These issues interrupt listening sessions and ultimately take away from what should be a smooth, high-end experience. So, while on paper, have outstanding functionality and connectivity features, the implementation is deficient. In short, the sound quality is outstanding, but the unreliable connectivity makes it hard to fully enjoy these speakers. If KEF can improve the software and network stability, they would be close to perfect — but as they are now, the connectivity problems significantly impact day-to-day use, and i end up not using them as i expect to use. Read more

$3,000 for 2 speakers, $2000 for the subwoofer, $500 for the speaker stands, $200 more to connect the "wireless" speakers to the "KW1" wireless receiver on the sub... and it still doesn't work. Neither KEF nor Amazon will let me return this stuff, and the support is abysmal - especially if you live on the west cost (they close at 3pm our time). KEF is kaput, steer clear, it's not what it used to be. Junk. crappy support. poor attitudes. not even close to being worth the price. Read more

The sound is great until you try to connect to Spotify. Before you buy look up KEF LS50 Wireless II and threads will come up regarding issues playing Spotify. The reason you may be interested is because you want to hear lossless audio from Spotify or Tidal. So beware, it will have issues with Spotify. Read more

They're not perfect, I'll get into that more below. But they're AMAZING. I had the original LS50's for years, and loved them. Since almost all of my listening is from DAP or streaming, I decided to scale-down, sell my LS50's, amp and subwoofer, and move to the new wireless speakers. The sound is just amazing. Speakers this small shouldn't be able to have great sound AND imaging. Placement matters a little, I have mine 8' apart, and about 6 inches from the wall. And the room does matter, but that's true of all speakers. My listening room is about as bright as you can get, choosing the "bright room" EQ fixed that with no tweaking. For some reason, KEF didn't put a USB in jack on these. That's a miss, IMHO. You can work around it, but should you have to? Even the LSX's have USB. The software is good, but not great. Setup and interface are easy to learn, but overall, kind of messy. And the software pretty much assumes you're using one of the supported streaming services. I prefer to use the soft-buttons on the master speaker, when using a DAP. Overall, at least for me, at the sale price of $1999, these are just crazy-good. Read more

A long time ago I was entranced by Kef 104ab speakers. Even then, Kef made speakers that were a superior price/performance value compared to their competitors. After I bought them, I learned the 104's were murderously hard to drive. It took at lot of effort, time, experimentation, and money to figure it all out, but it was worth it. It was what had to be done back in the day to get a really optimized system for demanding speakers. The LS50 Wireless II's outperform the 104ab's in all respects.. and that's impressive. But THEY have all the amplification issues completely resolved right out of the box due to carefully optimized amplifiers, DAC's and crossover management. The Kef application make it so simple to optimize their EQ for your listening space, which is not a thing with passive speakers! Set up is simple. You don't have to go through the personal growth experience to get them optimized or find amplifiers that are ideally matched for them! This is a great system for listeners who want to just use and enjoy their music and not want to futz with their equipment for it to work well. I know how to do it the old fashioned way, but it's a luxury to get this level of performance and system integration with so little effort! Read more

The sound is awesome, especially from such a small package, but the volume on the remote is not very responsive, (it seems to have a mind of its own) and the app really sucks. It’s what makes the overall package good, but not great. As sound is my main concern, I’d say they are worth the money. Hopefully KEF will get it’s act together on the app. Edit: the speakers disconnected and I can’t get them to work properly. Dealing with KEF customer support has become some sort of dystopian three stooges movie. DO NOT BUT FROM THIS COMPANY! Edit2: it’s been several months and the connection keeps dropping, forcing me to unplug/replug to reset the system. Reset the app, both, or fumble around with the settings until it decides to connect. This happens about 60% of the time. I shouldn’t need firmware updates and (useless) tech support to run a pair of speakers. Read more

Impressive sound quality for such small speakers. Incredibly easy to set up and a great iPhone app. Not cheap, but a very high quality product. Read more

As someone who appreciates high quality sound and wants that with the convenience of multi-room functionality that Wi-Fi streaming provides, this speaker system is an absolute revolution. It says a lot about the situation that I spent way less time setting up the new system than I did taking down the old one. I estimate that I replaced more than 170 lbs of equipment with around 40 lbs that this pair of speakers (including built-in amps and etc) weighs. So much less clutter! Setup was effortless and effective, the sound is better (and it was previously quite good, until recently, when my old power amp died) and the functionality is spectacularly better. This system offers an extremely simple and direct route to decent to very good sound (better at the price than I could achieve with lots of careful effort over many years) and all the functionality that I, personally, currently want. I used an inexpensive old subwoofer with the old setup. I continue to use it with these new speakers. I think I would be happy without the subwoofer, but like the tiny bit of additional rich low-bass and kick that it provides. That points to something that astonishes me about this system. The KEF Connect app equalizer made it very easy to account for the situation of the speakers in the room and to incorporate the subwoofer. I'm a software developer, and think they did an extremely good job with the human factors of the app. I don't need or want the app to provide the functionality that my streaming music players provide – as another reviewer said, let Google and App and Tidal, Roon, etc do that. I'm very pleased with how well the app does what I need it to do. Similarly, the remote control gives me a convenient way to adjust the volume, mute, and on rare occasions when the I need to override the automatic source detection, change the source. I haven't yet said anything specific about the sound, and I'm still finding out how it is. So far, I'm delighted. I'm finding more clarity, richness, and dynamics than I've experienced before in my home. I continue to go through different parts of my collection, as the mood strikes, and discover myself enjoying aspects of the music that I hadn't noticed before. People often talk about the almost palpable imaging that Kef's coincident-centers Uni-Q drivers provide. It's true, and it enhances the experience. The thing is, I haven't found any downsides. As I said, they're still new, there's more to discover. But I'm happy. (-: I've only had the speakers for a few weeks, and am wary of an "all eggs in one basket" dependency on them. I will be dependent on KEF and/or after-market repair services if something breaks. That said, this is KEF's second iteration of the model, which could mean that a lot of the bugs have been shaken out. Plus I was in a bind with the old system when my power amp died, and that's the case for any component in the multi-component chain. It's all trade-offs. Ultimately, I got a high quality, exquisitely well-integrated system. Provided that they're reliable, for anyone who streams music in their home, these are the best prospects that I've encountered for getting high fidelity and high functionality at anywhere near this price, more so than anything else I've seen up to now. Read more