Q350 Bookshelf Speakers - Pair (Walnut)

First time purchasing or spending more on speakers and it is worth it. Speakers look great and more importantly they sound amazing. I’ll have them for a long time.

Very nice voice. With the tube amplifier, it has a very good performance. I've been listening to it for a week, and the tone is getting better and better. The treble is bright and not harsh, the bass is full and thick, especially the midrange performance is very prominent.

ottime casse per stereo vintage con amplificatore degli anni ottanta.

Wunderbare Teile. Sehen einfach super aus und klingen klasse. Würde ich definitiv wieder kaufen.

Before buying these KEFs, I like many others obsessionally belabored the choice. I read a zillion reviews. Watched a zillion YouTube reviews. I considered all the current bookshelf speakers that are being talked about in the current year. I bought and auditioned the Triangle Bro 3, the Klipsch RP 600M, Elac Unifi 2.0 and this KEF Q350. All of these speakers are highly regarded. The Q350 was not released recently but the KEF sound with the Uni-Q drivers has been praised for many years. (The new KEF LS50 Meta is their current media darling. Would have loved to buy it but it costs literally twice as much. And these are already pretty pricey for my budget. 😊) After much critical listening I decided to keep these. Their precision and detail are simply better and more exact than the others. Their imaging is remarkable. And aside from that, they simply sound more beautiful. Like the difference between a really nice Yamaha piano and a Steinway. The sound is richer. The notes resonate better. My second favorite was the Elac Unfi 2.0. Really great also. But didnt quite have as good separation as the Q350s. The KEFS also have a comforting sound. That’s why I use the term “warm”. It’s not that it is colored. It just sounds more real. (Like the difference a tube amp makes. Just more realness.) As many reviews have mentioned, these speakers will sound pretty different depending on how you position them in the room. I intend to try many more configurations as time goes on to see where they work the best in my given space. These speakers have a very strong centering of the vocals. I wouldn’t mind diffusing that a little bit if I can. Ive already heard that I can alter that a bit by placement changes. I’m running these with an Elac 10” subwoofer which fills out the sound nicely at the bottom. I may try another woofer to get a faster tighter bass hit in the future. I use Qobuz and stream high bit rate files whenever available. Definitely ups the game well beyond typical streaming (Spotify) I will report back on this review after Ive “broken them in” (Some people claim this opens the sound stage over time. It may simply be a placebo effect or my own hearing re-learning what to expect from the given sound source. We shall see...) At close range with a bit of toe-in, these speakers are like listening to giant studio-grade headphones. The exactness is thrilling. Like headphones without anything clamping your head. 😁 Oh, and looks wise, they are very elegant. Unique. So far I’m digging these KEFs 👍🏻