KEF LSX: These small but mighty wireless speakers deliver sound quality way above their size class
Founded in 1961, KEF is a well-known, high-end British speaker brand with many outstanding products to its credit. These days, small wireless speakers are all the rage, and KEF has embraced that market with several models, including the new LSX. Let’s see if it’s worthy of KEF’s legacy.
The KEF LSX is relatively small, measuring 9.5 x 6.1 x 7.1 inches (H x W x D), but it feels quite substantial (weighing just under eight pounds). To match almost any decor, it’s available in five colors: black, green, blue, red, and gloss white. In each case (except white), the sides, top, and bottom are wrapped in a color-matched fabric from Danish textile designer Kvadrat.
A gently convex front baffle helps minimize diffraction of sounds from the driver. Speaking of which, the driver is a KEF-developed Uni-Q coaxial design. A 0.75-inch aluminum-dome tweeter is located at the center of a 4.5-inch magnesium/aluminum alloy-cone midrange/woofer. This configuration is intended to make sounds from both transducers radiate from the same point and improve stereo imaging.
The Uni-Q driver is powered by amplifiers providing 70
