“If you’re making an active speaker, it doesn’t necessarily make sense to do the driver or acoustic design in the same way you would with a passive. You can, that’s fine — but then you forego the opportunity to do something that might potentially perform better, or give the customer more options.” Those words were, post-pleasantries, the first uttered by the Vice President of Technology at KEF, Jack Oclee-Brown, during my recent conversation with him, and they resolutely encapsulate the ethos behind, and effort that has gone into, the company’s latest statement product, the LS60 Wireless. Indeed, the all-in-one active floorstanding speaker system is unique to anything in KEF’s passive speaker catalogue — a ground-up design that, despite inheriting existing KEF technologies, is like nothing else currently on the market.…
