Phantom and LS50 Wireless

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I believe you are both right.

I have NOT heard a KEF LS50 wireless but had owned the LS50 for a fair bit.

I would have guessed that the LS50 would be better than the Silver in mids and trebles, but that the Gold would be better overall than the LS50.  The Golds are substantially better than the Silver to my years though both pairs playing together to provide a bipole effect is still very fantastic - golds pointing forward for the main sound.

I would love to hear the LS50 wireless however just to see how far they have progressed for a pair of actives.

The LS50 does have subwoofer out which would be interesting to incorporate if you need the Phantom bass.

I had the LS50s for about a month, and  compared them with the Spendor LS35a, and the Dynaudio's Excite14 (I had owned the Contours, the Sapphires, and the C4), but the Excites sounded better in my room! Well at this stage, if the LS50(I had the passive) are being compared with  the Devialet phantoms, then  I see no way of even thinking of acquiring them, as if they are comparable with the KEFs on piano, then they are not my ideal choice.

the LS50 wireless are on another level in the treble and mid and midbass.....piano sounds worlds apart from the phantom.
it has been mentioned elsewhere, that the wireless version of the kef is far superior to the passive ls50 even when driven by capable amplification. this is where the DSP comes into play and has control over the drivers.

someone also mentioned on another forum that he finds the kef superior to the phantom gold. and from my experience with the silver (have not heard the gold) I do believe so.

all I can say is the kef sound audiophile where imo the phantom silver sound midfi....but very impressive at that. and there is a strong difference between sounding impressive and sounding right.

I base my comparisons and opinions on all of the other gear I have which I consider true hi end some of which are Wilson maxx3 driven by halcro dm78 and naim hdx front end and Wilson sasha drivern by audio research reference amps and front end and many other setups.

I am not saying the phantom is bad...just saying that to my ears thekef is superior in sounding acoustically right.