The benchmark of HiFi speakers
The flagship of The Reference Series is the model that all other high-performance loudspeakers compare themselves against. Now with the extraordinarily capable 12th generation Uni-Q® driver array with MAT™, Reference 5 Meta exemplifies the passion for innovation that underpins KEF’s design philosophy.
Since 1973, The Reference has continually set the benchmark for loudspeakers and sound reproduction. Pioneering the use of digital technologies to achieve the highest audio accuracy, every pair can be matched within 0.5dB to the laboratory-maintained reference standard.
Since the first Reference speaker, KEF engineers have continued to innovate using what is possible with The Reference. Ground-breaking in its first incarnation, each subsequent iteration of The Reference has added to the world’s knowledge of the science of acoustics.
SPECS:
- Design: Three-way bass reflex
- Uni-Q driver array:
MF: 125 mm (5 in.) aluminium cone
- Bass units:
- Frequency range free field (-6dB):
Short port: 35Hz - 45kHz
Long port: 32Hz - 45kHz
Long port: 32Hz - 45kHz
- Frequency range typical in room bass response (-6dB): 25Hz
- Frequency response (±3dB): 40Hz – 35kHz
- Crossover frequency: 450 Hz, 2.1 kHz
- Amplifier requirements: 50 - 400W
- Sensitivity (2.83V/1m) : 88dB
- Harmonic distortion 2nd & 3rd harmonics (90dB, 1m):
<0.5% 40Hz – 100kHz
<0.2% 200Hz – 2kHz
<0.1% 2kHz - 20kHz
<0.2% 200Hz – 2kHz
<0.1% 2kHz - 20kHz
- Maximum output (peak sound pressure level at 1m with pink noise): 116dB
- Impedance: 4 Ω (min. 3.2 Ω)
- Weight: 60.2 kg (132.7 lbs.)
- Dimensions (H x W x D)(with grille and terminal): 1350 x 205 x 462 mm(53.1 x 8.1 x 18.2 in.)