So Kii have just stuck up Martin Colloms' review for Hi-Fi Critic on their website.
To give him credit, Colloms mans up and says he'd avoided reviewing them 'cos he thought they'd be rubbish ("switching" amps etc.).
Also to his credit he admits he was wrong: says they, "sound more like £25,000 worth of gear" and even then does stuff conventional systems can't.
I said on these very pages that I thought the midrange and imaging was electrostatic: He says they, "resemble the Quad ESL63 in the fine coherence, focussed timing, lack of coloration and the near point source focus". I also said previously that in many ways they sounded like headphones, reflected by his comment, "more like a great pair of cans than speakers in a room".
While I don't need independent verification of what I think I hear, it's nice when it happens. Anway, it's there to read if anyone is interested. I was very surprised given his previous affections.
More evidence that people who haven't heard these and who are thinking of spending some £££ ought to give them a listen.
I was originally perplexed by their cost relative to my previous system (which was largely bought used) but have come 'round to thinking that they are an absloute bargain for what they offer. I did hear a better system a couple of weeks ago but it was 65K...
