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KEF Premium Three Way Centre

Product #57574 | SKU R2CWALNUT | KEF
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Overview

Low-frequency Drivers, Flexible Port Technology, Beautiful By Design, Microfibre Grilles

Description

Within a home theatre environment, the centre speaker is arguably the hardest working. The KEF Premium Three Way Centre helps to drive the story by handling vocal duties and most of the on-screen action. With the same Uni-Q as the main speakers, featuring a 125mm midrange and 25mm aluminium dome tweeter, R2c recreates every nuance, whilst matching the rest of the range tonally. The twin 130mm bass drivers allow the R2c to dig even deeper, ensuring that the audience doesn't miss a beat.

Sound Is The Real Story

In the movie world, the best sound engineers are capable of weaving ever more wonderful sonic webs and the new R Series is your ticket for getting the best out of movies, delivering the natural, consistent sound essential for a phenomenal surround sound experience.

Shadow Flare

Derived directly from the Reference Series, the Shadow Flare is an innovative method of reducing harmful cabinet diffraction for delicate high-frequencies. Shadow Flare is a carefully profiled transition surface which extends the waveguide effect of Uni-Q. The tweeter no longer has a line of sight of the cabinet edges, creating a ‘shadow region’ at the points where the potential for diffraction is highest. The result is vastly improved fine detail, particularly when it comes to the subtle nuances of plucked strings and other percussive sounds.

Low-frequency Drivers

Bass is the very foundation of music; everything is built upon it and maximising bass performance is a vital building block towards the pristine sound. R Series bass drivers are built using a two-part structure, where a shallow concave aluminium skin sits atop a paper cone. This great stiffness, combined with the cone’s unique geometry, delivers pure piston-like movement to deliver punch and speed. To accurately control this mighty driver, KEF has also completely redesigned its magnet system to create a more even magnetic field. The overall result is more impressive and impactful.

Cabinet Bracing

A solid platform is imperative for great sound. The new R Series benefits from Constrained layer damping. This system utilises internal braces joined by a ‘lossy’ interface and is highly effective at dissipating unwanted vibrations that would otherwise artificially change the sound and music.

Flexible Port Technology

When it comes to generating deep, articulate bass, port design is crucial. The ports in R Series feature innovative flexible walls. Using computational fluid dynamics, the flare and profile of each port are calculated to delay the onset of turbulence, while the flexible port walls prevent longitudinal resonances from colouring the midrange.

Beautiful By Design

Great design is timeless. KEF’s product designers seek to create deceptively simple, elegant loudspeakers. But form follows function. So whilst R Series is driven by acoustics, all visible engineering fixings have been artfully concealed so all the listener sees is a beautiful and simple exterior.

Conceived to be at home anywhere, the R Series comes in a choice of two sleek gloss finishes or a classic wood veneer. These finishes go deeper than just a base colour: each speaker benefits from KEF’s tone-on-tone approach where tweeter dome, driver cones, feet, spikes and KEF logo are colour-matched to the finish.

Microfibre Grilles

The R Series has been created to sound at its best with or without grilles. This microfibre design is a first for KEF and resulted in a design that not only looks beautiful but has a negligible effect on sound performance. All of the grilles are handcrafted and compressed with heated pressure from thirteen layers of composite material. The grilles continue the tone-on-tone approach: grey for the white cabinet, brown for the walnut, and black for the black. The grilles' edges are burnished in a similar way to fine leather goods and the overall effect is almost suede-like.

Key Features

  • Uni-Q Driver Array: HF: 25mm vented aluminium dome MF: 125mm aluminium cone
  • Bass Driver: LF: 2 x 130mm hybrid aluminium
  • 175 x 550 x 308.5mm with terminal

Specifications

Design Three-way closed box
Drive units Uni-Q Driver Array:
HF: 25mm vented aluminium dome
MF: 125mm aluminium cone
Bass Driver: LF: 2 x 130mm hybrid aluminium
Crossover frequency 400Hz, 2.9kHz
Frequency range (-6dB) 64Hz-50kHz (-6dB)
Typical in-room bass response (-6dB) 49Hz (-6dB)
Frequency response (±3dB) 74Hz-28kHz (±3dB)
Harmonic distorition (90dB, 1m) <0.3% 120Hz-20kHz (90dB, 1m)
Maximum output 110dB
Amplifier power (recommended) 15 - 200W
Nominal impedance 8Ω (min.3.2Ω)
Weight 16.9kg
Dimensions (H x W x D) with terminal 175 x 550 x 308.5mm with terminal
Finishes Walnut

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  • KEF Premium Three Way Centre

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  • Product: KEF Premium Three Way Centre
  • Manufacturer: KEF
  • Model: R2CWALNUT
  • SKU: R2CWALNUT
  • RM Product #: 57574
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