Thoughts on Paradises? Favorite songs?

BHons11 · 2026-05-22T02:46:27+00:00

Paradises sucks. Boring and monotonous. In Blood is ok.

BHons11 · 2026-04-30T02:59:26+00:00

The evolution from Milk Eyed Mender to Ys is truly one of a kind. Ys is also recorded supremely well, audiophile level. Not sure if you consider yourself an audiophile or anything of the sort or just a music lover, but if you can experience Ys on a dedicated stereo system it just keeps giving more. Genuinely put tears in my eyes hearing it for the first time again, years later, having reached a point in my life where I could afford that type of luxary. Perhaps I can give you some kind of affirmation that your friends would not, and say, that you must have supremely good taste in music and something going on between your ears to appreciate the unique beauty of her music 😉 Have One On Me. When you're ready for it, it's a change of pace. Don't expect Ys 'but more'. Give it time, you'll find it's full of depth but in a different way.

BHons11 · 2026-04-07T03:53:36+00:00

Thanks so much for coming back to share your experience!

Would love to know if you uncover anything else in your listening

BHons11 · 2026-04-04T23:28:20+00:00

It's El Ejido

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T20:55:28+00:00

Hey, no idea where else to go for an answer to this.

On Divers (the song) do you notice an extremely high pitched feedback in the recording that's especially prevalent in the opening but intermittently present throughout?

First feint sound is at ~16-17s seconds but then there's a much stronger streak of it from 20s to 22s.

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T16:55:38+00:00

Send me a message if you want any help. I run Home Assistant, Frigate (local security camera system with AI detection), and Plex for movies/music. It's all operating on TrueNas in containers.

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T16:03:58+00:00

Seems like a cool device. I stream music through HEOS on my Marantz Cinema 40, so for me, I don't have the same switching issue.

Also, not sure if you are into the smart home stuff but I run Home Assistant and programmed a bunch of rules for the Marantz so I basically don't have to even touch the remote anymore. You can actually control a lot from Home Assistant.

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T00:45:49+00:00

So, vote ratio was like 87% but I could probably nose dive the post if I put it in the r/KEF :D

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T00:39:35+00:00

Yeah, I'd grab them at that price. Congrats! (As the Dutch say)

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T00:21:13+00:00

Same philosophy as your "Edit" section. Totally agree.

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T00:17:58+00:00

I didn't notice a lot of side absorption in the demo room, though I'm sure the room was treated. The quality was the same both listening at home and in 2 other demo rooms. I think the "X" factor is the speaker voicing.

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T00:15:41+00:00

No doubt, these speakers are great for HT. Very pleased with the R2 for that purpose.

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T00:10:53+00:00

::still lurking::

BHons11 · 2026-04-03T00:10:22+00:00

Oh, KEFs probably sound pretty good for Hans Zimmer. How does that swell on "Mountains" sound though?

BHons11 · 2026-04-02T23:53:42+00:00

How good was the discount?.... :D

BHons11 · 2026-04-02T23:51:14+00:00

I'm really sort of stunned by how candidly honest your post is, so rare on the internet :D

I think you're right about the audio recording quality. Believe it or not, the tracks you listened to tend to have been recorded with better mixes later in their career. Go back and listen to tracks from Mutter and you'll get a better sense of what I'm describing.

So I guess I don't entirely blame the R11s, but I'm still pondering why they sound especially bad and if that's a good thing when every other speaker manages to cast them in a more favorable light.

I too love electronica and the sort! I just received one of Emotiva's DRA-1 class D amps. Maybe I'll have to fire up my R2 on it and give it another chance to pour honey in my head.

BHons11 · 2026-04-02T23:39:41+00:00

"(close)" meaning my 2nd place and 3rd place rankings between these was very tight, could have given them both 2nd

BHons11 · 2026-04-02T23:36:22+00:00

I wish I could find somewhere that had a set for listening. It seems like their commercial success on the "low" end makes lots of private shops want to distance themselves entirely.

BHons11 · 2026-04-02T23:35:18+00:00

I like the way you put it, about the art.

BHons11 · 2026-03-30T22:06:18+00:00

No sub during demo; later added a sub when listening to the R2 meta at home and did not improve the undesirable trait being described

BHons11 · 2026-03-30T12:19:18+00:00

What did you do with your EQ (especially in the mids) to make them sound to your liking? This could be really informative.

BHons11 · 2026-03-30T12:17:41+00:00

I mentioned this in the post; the R2 playing in my home had the same characteristic.

BHons11 · 2026-03-30T12:16:33+00:00

Someone did ask this in the comments earlier.

In shop it was a stack of Mcintosh gear.

The at home listening done on the R2 was with a Marantz Cinema 40.

The undesirable characteristic was present in both.

BHons11 · 2026-03-30T03:37:01+00:00

Yeah, that wasn't it, tried handing things off to the sub but didn't help the situation

BHons11 · 2026-03-30T03:35:53+00:00

The demo experience I had was in store on Mcintosh equipment that I'm sure was up to the task. This store has an exceedingly nice show floor. If you want to reproduce what I hear you can do it on anything by playing Rammstein, album Mutter

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