KEF is a British speaker manufacturer developing industry-leading products for over 50 years. KEF has received a host of awards and stellar reviews and currently offers a wide range of hi-fi speakers and AV speakers. 

The flagship KEF Blade and smaller KEF Blade 2 speakers are renowned for their excellence and superb reproduction, and their advanced pioneering technologies and Uni-Q Driver Array designs have filtered down into lots of KEF’s consumer-end products, such as the KEF LS50 wireless speakers.

In 1961, KEF was founded by Raymond Cooke OBE an ex-BBC Electrical Engineer and headquartered the company near Maidstone, Kent. The company was set on the banks of the River Medway in the premises of a former metal working company, Kent Engineering & Foundry. Overtime by experimenting with new technologies and materials, Cooke aimed to produce superior acoustic quality with recordings reproduced to the exact nature of the original performance. 

KEF became the first company to utilise the stability of Bextrene as a cone material, which has since been incorporated in many drivers for many leading audiophile speakers. Another major breakthrough a few years later, KEF became the first to design and test loudspeakers with computer modelling leading the industry in the digital analysis of speakers. Their revolutionary work resulted in KEF being able to match speaker pairs to within half a dB for flawless audio reproduction. 

KEF eventually went on to produce their signature technology, the Uni-Q point source driver array in the next decade using NASA-developed magnets that were ten times more powerful than conventional ones. KEF stayed ahead of the game in the nineties with the advent of 5.1 home cinema recording by creating the first dedicated centre speaker in the UK, the Model 100 benefiting from Uni-Q. 

Through the years, they have been developing impressive expertise in the use of advanced acoustical, magnetic and mechanical modelling techniques such as Finite Element Analysis resulting in an accuracy that was not previously achievable. Kept under wraps since the 1980s, KEF revealed their ACE technology in 2005 demonstrating the advantages of activated carbon inside a compact speaker enclosure and its effect on internal volume and bass extension.

Now five decades from the company’s inception, KEF's scientific innovation and hands-on experimentation cements their ultimate audiophile reputation and allows them to continue to lead in developing products ahead of the market. We stock the complete KEF range, from the multimedia range (that includes active speakers, headphones and earphones) to the Q series range, LS50 range, both the wired and wireless LS50, R series range, KEF Reference range and KEF Blade, along with custom install speakers and 5.1 speaker packages for a home theatre experience.

Trinnov Audio designs and produces preamplifiers and processors utilising patented loudspeaker room optimisation and 3D sound technologies for premium Hi-Fi & Home Theaters, Professional Studios and Movie Theatres.

Trinnov Audio develops innovative solutions for a wide range of media, entertainment and research audio applications. The company is famous for its cutting-edge loudspeaker/room optimiser including the exclusive remapping technology and research work in the area of 3D Audio. The French manufacturer has always been committed to producing high-performance and reliable products for its demanding customers across the professional, high-end and commercial audio markets.

In 2000, Arnaud Laborie, Sebastien Montoya and Remy Bruno joint forces to launch a research focusing on 3D sound which lead to the first working test of a fully functional 3rd-order 3D audio chain. Within 2 years, Trinnov Audio won an award from the French Ministry for Research as one of the most innovative young companies of the year. They went on to publish their first scientific paper for the AES Convention in Amsterdam: A New Comprehensive Approach of Surround Sound Recording and introduction of the SRP surround recording solution at the AES Convention in Berlin (2004). In 2005, the revolutionary Optimiser surround monitoring solution was introduced featuring Trinnov’s loudspeaker/room optimisation technology at the AES Convention in Barcelona.

Between 2006 to 2009, some of the world's largest post production facilities such as Fox Studios (LA), Cinephase, Teletota, Cine Stereo, Dovidis, Jackson (Paris), Cineplus (Cologne) installed the optimiser. Music studios globally also began to adopt the Optimiser like Mc Gill University, Studios La Majeure, Vienna Fine Arts Academy, Sinus AV, Studio Odéon 120 and Tonstudio Beusch. In the following two years, Trinnov introduced the ST2 Pro and ST2 HiFi Stereo Processor and speaker/room optimiser as well as the MC Processor multichannel monitoring platform and Orion & Pegase Digital Cinema Processors. The first installation of the Supervizer broadcast audio quality probe took place at TF1 and Trinnov welcomed many high profile customers including Toho Studios (Tokyo), Technicolor, Boulogne Mixing Theaters, Joinville Mixing Theaters, RFI (Paris), Swedish State Opera (Stockholm), VBW, GTHP OB vans, KBS and SVT.

In recent years, Trinnov has continued to develop innovative solutions that improve the quality of sound throughout the production chain until the end listener introducing the new Altitude series, the Amethyst preamplifier, magnitude 32 for premium hifi set-ups and Ovation audio processor for digital cinema. They also expanded their customer base to include more well-respected names in the industry including Super Audio Mastering (UK), UGC movie theaters (France), Dubbing Brothers and Titra Films (Paris) and Prime Focus (London).