KEF Factory Tour UK | How it's Made| Handmade Speaker Assembly 

Thank you for this! I have an old pair of KEF bookshelf speakers I am using now but plan on replacing them at some point. I am considering some newer KEF, I really like a company that has complete control over their product, drivers, cabinet and electronics all in house. Focal is another that comes to mind.

This guy is so funny, not sure what, where, how, and most of the peoples names, but blows us away with how he talks! lol, love it

Awesome video! Thank you for taking us viewers along. Your KEF video series is awesome. Well done Guys!

Wow totally blown away, a real dream product.

that was a very cool tour.....they really take pride in there product ....great video guys..cheers

My Dad had a base unit with two satellites which i use to play 80s music on it "The sound" is so good.

Handmade loudspeakers. Really nice window into the high end audio world. Love the way the KEF gentleman says lacquering. Farfield and Nearfield testing on the production line. Good video. Thanks as always. I love how KEF tests very speaker against the standard.

Great tour guys. The guy who's building the white KEF high end speaker gets my vote for having vintage Star Wars figures at his work station. 👍

I bought the Reference 3 Meta due to a great second hand deal because the very wealthy prior owner just wanted to get rid of them because he preffered other speakers he bought afterswards. This video made me realize how much value is actually inside of the Reference and Blade series. Wow.

elegant finished!

Loving this series of videos!

Very good i have never heard what it sounds like!!!!

Greetings from #Algeria ❤🇩🇿 Good job sirs!

I love the video's guys!

VERY VERY COOL! I love KEF my whole system is KEF and I would love to tour this facility and also here the Reference speakers and the old 207/2 reference speakers

Magnífico!

Awesome. I have owned KEF loudspeakers for decades, love the British sound signature. I have owned the Corelli, C-40, and in the Reference Series the 101, the 104.2 which I still own, and the 105.2. Fabulous sounding speakers.

@DreamediaHomeTheater - Great visit video to the KEF Factory. I wonder if you guys can visit the SONOS Factory next time.

Exelente vidéo'exelente work,ans good bosse ,thank's.

Fascinating.

Great video!

I'm not in the market I just love looking at really nice speakers.

You gotta love Grayson's new doo!!

very cool this series of videos that you are making.👍

love em

Great video brotha. I love kef. Tho I only have kef q750s.

Johan sounds like David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. Awesome video! I own a pair of Q950 Floor Speakers. Not in the same realm of the Blades, however, a very nice sounding speaker for the money.

Thank you

Dude, I am a huge fan... please reupload this video with proper FPS setting, or whatever is causing the horrible flicker. The video is giving me a headache :-(... Great content though :-) Do this before the viewership climbs in numbers.

Excellent

Everybody needs KEF Blades. 😍😍 I own a pair of KEF Q950's. 😁

So nice. Wish i can work at KEF

Looks like an awesome type of job. Hard work, ultra close attention to detail, if strict standards are not met, do it over again... wow. Sadly most people just go with assembly line built cheaper speakers. Then again not many have the extra money to spend.

LoL I thought there was green magic @ 3:45

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The Blue all day.

so much money! well, when you have the money, you need to enjoy it!

I wish we could go back to the good old days when ALL of the KEF speakers were MADE IN ENGLAND unlike you know where nowadays 😭😭😭 I have owned the cute classic vintage Q50 long ago and loved those musical floorstanders.

I purchased the 950s I know they aren’t at this level but I figured if they put their name on it that’s good enough for me

That flicker.....

You should visit legacy audio. They are in springfield Illinois. They hand build their speakers. It took a month to get my speakers after i order them. Nice video.

I would like to purchase the mahogany coloured R11 speakers that appear in your excellent video. How may I obtain these. Frankly, I am not interested in white, black or walnut. They just don't fit in next to my mahogany piano.

Kef 104/2 sold me years ago!

Hi Zack!!!

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So what specific lines are made at KEF in the UK? Dynaudio use to do something very similar but now they are owned by the Chinese and now I hear their high end cabinets are made in China...

The extremely high finish of the cabinets suggests that they are meant for indoors of a residence......

I'm music love from Thailand.

One pair of blades Matt black please

I wish they offered a less fancy version, seeing as how a bulk of the expense goes into the finish and the polish process. I'd love to skimp on the finish and just get an unpainted pair.

Make retro LS3/5A speaker

Guys awesome content. Just wanted to let you know as an audiophile with high end setup i have listened to your intro multiple times and it sounds dirty’ y’all deserve to clean it up! PM me if you need someone to help with it.

Can we see where are the components actually made and what are their processes ?

All of the great but lights flickering all most need to change without flickering lights

I'd love to watch the video but the headaches due to the hz flickering is just awful.

cant wait for your next video on how to watch paint dry.

I live in Thailand and I would like to order the KEF R11 with piano finish. I have written to your office no answer yet.

£18k of speaker there. Quality stuff

Don't know why but getting a lot of flickering, is it the lights?

a licked sunnyboy + a flickering picture = everything I need

"Piano Black" is lovely ..... to look at. ANYONE who has to manufacture a product with that finish I suspect would be glad to not see it. Lovely vid many thanks.

Actually you're in the U.K.. Europe is across the way. Cool video.

3:49 I hope that crossover with sand cast resistors and iron core inductors is not going in a $30k speaker.

Are you guys becoming a KEF affiliate/dealer? Already are?

$32,000 a pair for the Blade Series

/G eat looking speakers

What's wrong with your camera?

who wanna view a flickering video.......please adjust fps next time...!!

Cabinets can be high quality speakers will be speakers corner shelf that you put them in be varnished black white green or yellow doesn't matter the transfer from one which is are Tweeter mid-range and bass all good you make a lot more money if you sell it to the cheaper people ya like me could afford it instead of the rich yeah we all want to get rich someday and I want to be nice but you keep selling it to the young people has money or the old people you got to be fordable work your way up and you'd be amazed how much money you will make start from the bottom and working your way up I understand they're good speakers not that much I just go find me a Ferrari would be the expense of these speakers I wish you well I just don't find them that expensive but they do look nice wish you well

The Blade 1's cost $32k per pair... That's insane.

The content is great, but the flickr is killing me. Look at the screen and adjust the shutter speed till there is no flickering. You are out of sync with the hz of the lights.

I am working part-time at McDonald's to save up for a pair of Blade One speakers.

I am sorry, i cannot watch that flicker, it drives me crazy. thank you for your time.

Pagla sala damn their English! Just like someone recites a poem. Similar to the Speakers a quality. Both are bloody ear soothing!

I must be honest although VERY impressed with my KEF auditions, I was extremely underwhelmed with the professionalism and product awareness! The entire video seemed like the rep was caught COMPLETELY off guard and absolutely winged it!

WOW EPILEPSY WARNING MUCH!!!!!! The flicker is horrendous.

WTF, are they work with stroboscopes?

my keff speakers sound shockingly bad after having b&ws for years keff was compltly dissapointing for me

really your using sand fill resistors come on use the good ones

That crossover he held up had some rather low quality components. Surprising to see in a "boutique" speaker production facility.

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You shoot a video about speakers and the sound is terrible. One lav mic on the guy talking and that's it. You need at least another omni mic on the camera and mix the 2 together in edit to be able to hear the others and general ambience.

IF he does not know anything about where anything is being done... why does not someone who know stuff give the walk around?? He does not know which speaker it is, where they are lacquered, which is hardest cabinet... .. is it?? is it?

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What are the cabinets made off, Plastic! This is very low tech manufacturing more like garage DIY!

why not get some one who has an idea of what the products actually are to do the video , this man is a poor advert for a great product.

Guy doesn't even know which model of speakers they are making. Great speakers though. They should have got one of the factory workers to do the interview rather than the pen pusher.

The guy doesn’t even know staff members names when building the blades. Astonishing for a so called boutique outfit.

Sounds like too much money for a 3 hour build (cabinet build speaker build wiring and assorted electronics). but I'm sure they're worth it to those who can afford that.

I'll keep my Bowers Wilkins 800 series thanks.

The light flickering in this video is about to give me a seizure!!!!

Johan should not be doing factory tours, come on Kef get someone who know his onions!!

Cant watch. Those lights are terrible.

If you want to have seizure watch this video...

6:28 it's not that hard to get a finish like that. it's done like a car. spray, sand and buff.

You should have used a better camera. The flickering is very annoying and makes it unwatchable. It's embarrassing coming to their factory with crap equipment!

Who would spend £24.000 for speakers when they had toddlers in the house? I had a pair of guitar speakers I'd built when I was 18 in the early 1980's and a friends child casually gave them a thorough prodding with a 4 inch nail he'd picked up somewhere.

If the common man only knew a little about audio they would find all this snake oil salesmanship funny. Talking about these are hand made crossovers😂 the blade assembly has to fit correctly and not have air leaks😂 these are all very basic speaker enclosure building issues but they aren’t really deal breaks in the way they justify the insane markup on their products

Not a good factory documentary. You don't learn anything about the various products. The B&W documentary otoh, is a polished masterpiece, truly informative.

Never showed drivers or putting them together