KEF LS60 Wireless Streaming System
Obsessed with sound quality and committed to bringing a superior listening experience, KEF has been pioneering innovative acoustic engineering since 1961. Celebrating 60 years of innovation in technology, performance and design, LS60 Wireless is KEF's vision of high-fidelity for the future. As KEF's first wireless tower stereo system, LS60 Wireless aims to bring high-fidelity sound to more people in their homes.
For LS60 Wireless KEF's engineers have seamlessly combined elements of the iconic Blade's Single Apparent Source technology, a specially designed 12th Generation Uni-Q driver array, the revolutionary Metamaterial Absorption Technology1 (MAT™), Uni-Core bass drivers and much more besides. The final pieces of the jigsaw are the forward-thinking W2 wireless platform and a wide range of wired inputs, ensuring LS60 Wireless can play all major music services and supports all major audio sources.
The combination of all KEF's key technologies delivers superlative acoustic performance and allows LS60 Wireless to be incredibly slim with a highly distinctive look. The ultra slim profile of the speakers makes room placement easier for different spaces within people's homes.
Performance - Celebrating 60 Years of Acoustic Innovation: LS60 Wireless is the world's first Single Apparent Source wireless system. The unique Single Apparent Source technology is adapted from KEF's flagship Blade speaker. By precisely placing the LF drivers equidistant around the Uni-Q driver array, it achieves the acoustic ideal of a point source where low, mid and high frequencies radiate from one single point. The result is noticeably more precise imaging and highly accurate sound across a wider listening area.
At the heart of LS60 Wireless' Single Apparent Source design sits the remarkable 12th Generation Uni-Q with MAT driver array. Specially designed to perform at its best in the LS60 Wireless, this cutting-edge Uni-Q boasts a host of refinements including a tweeter gap damper and new Z-Flex surround that ensure a near-perfect transition of sound from the speaker into the room. With the MAT that acts as an acoustic black hole, 99% of the unwanted sound that comes from the rear of the tweeter is absorbed, eliminating the resulting distortion and providing a purer, more natural acoustic performance. Together, these innovations and refinements deliver a super-wide sweet spot, uncannily natural sound with vanishingly low distortion.
The slim profile of the speakers and close positioning of the drivers in the Single Apparent Source configuration call for a novel approach to bass driver design. As a result, LS60 Wireless features 2 pairs of Uni-Core driver arrays, first found on the KC62 subwoofer, maximising bass performance while minimising space. KEF's P-Flex and Smart Distortion Control Technology also play their parts, ensuring that the low frequency performance is as balanced and detailed as the audio derived from the Uni-Q driver array. In addition, the bass drivers are mounted back-to-back in a force-cancelling arrangement so cabinet vibration is practically eliminated.
Smart and Powerful: The Music Integrity Engine brings together the Single Apparent Source configuration and other KEF acoustic technologies, allowing them to work closely, and elevating the impact of each. The brain behind most of KEF's wireless speakers, Music Integrity Engine offers a suite of bespoke Digital Signal Processing algorithms (DSPs), enabling it to deliver a perfectly timed performance with better imaging and a tighter sound. The Music Integrity Engine for LS60 Wireless features low-frequency phase correction. This new feature does more than ensuring perfect timed performance, it delivers pinpoint timing exactly as if you were listening to the original sound.
The LS60 Wireless also has power in abundance, with a highly optimised mixture of bespoke Class AB and Class D amplification delivering a combined 1400 Watts of audiophile-grade power, with amplifiers dedicated to high, medium and low frequencies within each speaker. This power is smartly managed, so each driver receives precisely what it needs to perform at its best, meaning LS60 Wireless is capable of a beautifully balanced performance at any volume level.
LS60 Wireless also offers you the choice of wired or wireless interspeaker connectivity. You can choose a wired connection with resolution up to 24bit/192kHz or use KEF's low-latency intelligent wireless interspeaker connection, which provides exceptionally reliable cable-free listening up to 24bit/96kHz.
Connectivity - Play Anything, Hear Everything: LS60 Wireless utilises the class-leading W2 wireless platform KEF introduced on the award-winning LS50 Wireless II. Delivering robust, high-quality streaming using any format you can imagine, the W2 platform provides the choice, connectivity and control that is the bedrock of un-rivalled user experience.
No matter how you stream your music, LS60 Wireless has you covered with out-of-the-box wireless compatibility with Wi-Fi, Apple AirPlay 2, Google Chromecast and Bluetooth. Using the KEF Connect app you can stream Amazon Music, Qobuz, and Deezer or tune in to internet radio and podcasts. You can use native apps to stream directly from Spotify Connect, Tidal and QPlay, and it is Roon Ready. LS60 Wireless also supports the streaming of PCM files up to 24bit/384kHz, as well as MQA decoding and DSD.
The connection options don't stop there, LS60 Wireless also supports all your wired sources whether you love to listen to vinyl records on your turntable or want to get the best possible sound from your CD player and games console. There's also an HDMI (eARC) connection for a high-quality link up with your TV, and a dedicated output on each of the two speakers for the addition of one or two KEF subwoofers.
LS60 Wireless is more than a high-fidelity speaker system - it is designed to enhance your everyday life. Seamlessly integrate LS60 Wireless into your smart home to browse and play music, select sources, or use controls such as play, pause, and adjust the volume via your smart home app or control interface.
Usability - Effortless Control: The KEF Connect app walks you through the set-up and features intuitive sound settings so you can fine-tune LS60 Wireless to best suit your room; there are normal and expert modes so you can get the best performance regardless of your knowledge of acoustics. The app first lets you effortlessly connect the LS60 Wireless to your home network, before providing control over every aspect of the performance.
Design - Impossibly Slim, Made Possible: The LS60 Wireless' extremely slim design is only possible because of the advanced technologies contained within the sleek cabinet. The product of a joint design by renowned designer Michael Young and the KEF product design team, LS60 Wireless is an exceptionally elegant loudspeaker that can fit effortlessly into a wider range of living spaces, both because of its looks and thanks to a broader range of placement possibilities.
Finally, LS60 Wireless is available in four elegant matte finishes: Titanium Grey, Mineral White, Royal Blue and Carbon Black. This colour scheme is designed to fulfil two types of approach to interior design. Titanium Grey, Mineral White and Carbon black are made to be integrated and blended into various spaces while Royal Blue, a more striking finish, is perfect for people who are determined to make a statement. All of the finishes feature tone-matched drive units and detailing to round off a truly exceptional loudspeaker.
Our Take On The KEF LS60
The first thing that strikes you is how impossibly tall and slim the LS60's are. And this isn't just a design affectation but rather part of larger plan to make these speakers sound similar to KEF's top of the range Blade models by incorporating the same Single Apparent Source configuration. This means the four side firing bass drivers are arranged around the front mounted Uni-Q concentric driver so that all frequencies, bass, midrange and treble seem to emanate from a Single Apparent Source. So, a clever aim, achieved in spectacular style.
The LS60's not only look great but they are a complete system all on their own. Take a few minutes to set up a pair of LS60's and that there is your whole system, nothing more to add. It almost seems like a trick. Surely you need something else? But no, if you want to stream music from a major streaming service then a pair of these plugged into power and connected to your Wi-Fi is everything you need to enjoy almost all the music in the world. Oh, and if you'd like to invest in an HDMI lead you can also plug your TV in for one of the best stereo AV systems imaginable. The LS60 is a tall, slim, stylish, home friendly streaming system for the modern lifestyle. Just what you've always wanted.
Main Features & Specifications
- Design: Powered Wireless Streaming Speaker System
- Tri-Amped Design with separate woofer, midrange, and tweeter amplifiers for greater headroom and lower distortion
- Uni-Q Driver Array technology makes your entire room sound like the "sweet spot"
- ¾" (19mm) Vented Aluminium Dome Tweeter with Metamaterial Absorption Technology
- Amplifier Power: 100 Watts (Class AB)
- 4" (102mm) Aluminium Cone Midrange Driver
- Amplifier Power: 100 Watts (Class D)
- Four 5¼" (133mm) Uni-Core Force-Cancelling Woofers
- Amplifier Power: 500 Watts (Class D)
- Innovative Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MAT) absorbs high-frequency vibrations to eliminate distortion
- Connection between Left & Right Speakers: Wired (allows 24-bit/192kHz audio) or Wireless (allows 24-bit/96kHz audio)
- Frequency Range: 26-36,000 Hz (-6 dB)
- Frequency Response: 31-24,000 Hz (±3 dB)
- Peak SPL: 111 dB
- MDF enclosure with elegant curved front baffle
- Acoustic Suspension (sealed) MDF enclosure with elegant, rounded corners and matching decoupling plinth
Wireless
- Bluetooth 4.2 high-quality audio streaming performance
- Built-In Dual-Band Wi-Fi® for audio streaming from your network
- Compatible streaming platforms include Apple AirPlay® 2, Google Chromecast and Roon (firmware update required)
- uPnP for playing music files from your local network
- KEF Connect App offers comprehensive remote control via your Apple® or Android™ device
- Compatible with popular music streaming apps, including Spotify via Spotify Connect, TIDAL via TIDAL Connect, Amazon Music, Qobuz, and Deezer
Primary Speaker Connections
- HDMI eARC (accepts signals up to 24-bit/192kHz) for improved sound from a compatible TV
- Toslink Optical Digital Input (24-bit/96kHz)
- Coaxial Digital Input (24-bit/192kHz)
- Analogue Stereo RCA Input
- RJ45 Ethernet Port for a wired network connection
- RJ-45 Ethernet Port for connecting to secondary speaker
- Mono RCA Subwoofer Output
- Supported File Formats (all inputs): MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC, WMA, LPCM and Ogg Vorbis
- Also Supports DSD files up to 12.3 MHz and MQA files via network connection
- USB Type A port for service only
- IEC Detachable Power Cable
Secondary Speaker Connections
- RJ-45 Ethernet Port for connecting to primary speaker
- Mono RCA subwoofer output
- IEC Detachable Power Cable
- USB Type A port for service only
General
- Included Accessories: 2 Power Cables, 3m CAT6 Interspeaker Cable, Remote Control, 2 AAA Batteries, Floor Spikes, Quick Start Guide, Warranty Information
- Available Finishes: Carbon Black, Mineral White, Titanium Grey, Royal Blue
- Dimensions (WxHxD): 130 x 1,042 x 321mm (Without Plinth)
- Dimensions (WxHxD): 212 x 1,090 x 394mm (With Plinth)
- Weight: 62.4kg pair
- Manufacturer's Warranty: 5 Years on Passive Components & Cabinets, 2 Years on Electronics + 1 Extended Year when Registered at KEF.com
Note: Features & Specifications Subject To Change Without Notice. E&OE.