★Carried & Installed

KEF loudspeakers · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT carries and installs KEF across the Kansas City metro — the Reference, R Series and Q Series loudspeakers for the room people sit in, and the Ci architectural speakers that carry the same maker into the ceilings and walls of the rest of the house. One precision first, because the trade is sloppy about this word: KEF is a line we carry and install under distribution, not one we hold our own dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized KEF dealer. What we are is the people who measure the room, specify the speakers, cut the openings where the drawing says and tune the result after the furniture is in. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

The useful thing to know before any model name: KEF’s Reference, R Series and Q Series pages all describe Uni-Q, its driver array, as a single point source that spreads sound more evenly through a room. In a house where the sofa sits wherever the furniture plan put it, that is a practical argument rather than a brochure one. It does not remove the room. Glass, stone and a corner still decide what you hear, which is why the measuring happens after the furniture arrives.

What we carry and install from KEF

KEF’s US site groups its hi-fi speakers by series — Blade, The Reference, R Series, Q Series, LS50, the LS Wireless Collection and two designer-named series — and lists architectural speakers, subwoofers and outdoor speakers separately. These are the families we specify here, named the way KEF names them.

• The Reference. Reference 1 Meta, Reference 2 Meta, Reference 3 Meta, Reference 4 Meta and Reference 5 Meta, with the REFERENCE 8b Subwoofer. KEF says the range is designed, engineered and hand-built in Maidstone, Kent. It is built around Uni-Q and KEF’s Metamaterial Absorption Technology, a maze-like structure behind the driver that absorbs rear-radiated sound. It is the front stage of a dedicated theater that wants boxes, and the listening room in a house that has one.
• R Series. R3 Meta, R2 Meta, R7 Meta, R6 Meta, R11 Meta and R8 Meta. KEF describes the R8 Meta as an up-firing Dolby Atmos-enabled module that adds to front and rear satellites, which is the model to look at when a Dolby Atmos room is built from boxes rather than in-ceiling speakers.
• Q Series. Q1 Meta, Q3 Meta, Q4 Meta, Q6 Meta, Q7 Meta, Q8 Meta, Q11 Meta and Q Concerto Meta, in floorstanding, bookshelf, centre-channel and on-wall forms, in the finishes KEF lists as Satin Black, Satin White and Walnut. This is the range for a media room or a living-room system, where the choice is footprint and finish more than the last increment of performance.
• LS50 Meta and the wireless range. LS50 is a series of its own on KEF’s site, with the LS50 Meta in its hi-fi listing. The LS Wireless Collection is the wireless range, and the LSX II and the Coda W wireless hi-fi speaker are named elsewhere on the site. They are the answer for a study, a bedroom or a desk that will never be wired to a rack, and the reason the site walk asks which rooms may have a cable and which may not.
• Ci architectural speakers. KEF’s architectural page lists in-ceiling and in-wall models under Custom Installation (Ci), with flush-mounted and extremely-low-profile types and a Ci Special Application group: Ci160QR, Ci130QR, Ci130QS, Ci160ES, Ci130ER, Ci200ER, Ci160.2CR and Ci160CSDS, and four with THX in the model name, Ci200RR-THX, Ci4100QL-THX, Ci3120QLM-THX and Ci5120QLM-THX. This is the family that carries KEF through a whole-house audio system.
• Subwoofers. KC62 and KC92, the Kube 8 MIE, Kube 10 MIE, Kube 12 MIE and Kube 15 MIE, and the REFERENCE 8b Subwoofer. Placement is measured rather than guessed, and in a larger room it can be more than one position. See home theater calibration.
• Outdoors — Ventura. KEF’s US site lists its Ventura outdoor speakers as coming soon, with landscape satellite, three-way bollard and surface-mount designs. We do not draw a range into a patio before it ships; until it does, outdoor audio is specified with a line chosen for the exposure.

How we put KEF into a room

• Measure before the model. Room dimensions, the seating plan, the glass and stone, and what sits behind the screen decide which series the room can use. The model number is the easier problem and the smaller one.
• Openings and cable on the drawing. Cut-out size, depth behind the drywall and the cable path are checked against KEF’s published specification for the exact Ci model and settled at rough-in, as part of the pre-wire. Speaker cable is home-run to the rack and labelled at both ends, with no splices in the wall.
• Tuned after the furniture. Levels matched zone to zone, subwoofer positions measured, delays and crossovers set and the room corrected once the sofa and rug are in. A room that was tuned empty is a room that gets tuned twice.
• One control surface, one record. The speakers sit behind a keypad or an app on a Control4 or Crestron system we design and program, and the model list, wire labels and settings land in your portal with the rest of the project record.

Where KEF sits beside the other lines we carry

KEF is the point-source answer: one driver array per speaker in its hi-fi ranges, with a separate architectural range for the ceilings and walls. Bowers & Wilkins is the alternative when the brief is one maker from the listening room to the laundry, with a long in-wall catalogue and a custom theater range. Cabasse is the other coaxial point-source option, which makes the two worth hearing side by side in the room. In a dedicated reference theater it is Wisdom Audio. The recommendation comes off the room and the seating, not the catalogue.

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