标签： Kii Audio THREE

With the financial and technical resources of major film studios, the sophistication of many soundtracks eclipses average music productions. Dialogue embedded in location ambiance and mood music opens the doors to intense sonic layering. Here the Thrii’s laser-specific localization powers maximized their awesome impressiveness. Because eyes dominate over ears, the on-screen action tends to distract from paying ultimate attention to its sonic accompaniment. Here eyes-closed experiments are useful to subtract the visual action entirely and relocate the sonic guides and mapping to the inner screen of one’s mind. Now one can really notice the full breadth of soundtrack trickery. Again, the Kii was a space explorer par excellence and utterly liberated from having to navigate through bass boom resonance and uneven room pressurization. Given moviedom’s reliance on LF—most scenes of dread involve very low-level sub bass and then there’s the typical bombast of explosions, battle scenes and such—subwoofers are nearly de rigueur for video. Outside of hardcore surround-sound freaks perhaps, the Kii Three eliminates their need categorically. This reduces system complexity, integration issues and real-estate grab. Good off-axis behaviour even meant that the speakers could fire straight out and still centre on the television screen from the outermost sofa positions. Grand cinema? You better believe it!
Gavel time. Back to the question of sequenced priorities, did living with the Three reshuffle anything? Yes. It added a new quality which moved right to the very front of the line: predictable repeatable performance. That’s really the most important quality a loudspeaker ought to possess yet so few do. In the hifi chain, it’s where the signal escapes the tightly controlled confines of electrical circuits to face the proverbial Wild West of unknown acoustics, placement and arbitrary amp mates whose impedance, power and distortion behaviour may or may not be ideal. Consequences to the buyer are serious. That impressive show audition or dealer demo refuses to repeat once a speaker installs in an ordinary living room/spare bedroom. With adaptable DSP, inseparable Ω/power-optimized amps and dispersion which removes the front wall to virtually remodel any room’s acoustics, the Kii Three’s performance travels wherever it goes. Versus even the best-case magnitude of MQA playback over ‘ordinary’ files—a hot press topic some even called “revolutionary” at the time of writing—that predictability is an earthquake compared to a sneeze. Yet how many seismic readings take note? To put it even more succinctly: sound unheard, the Kii Three could be safely mail-ordered! What other speaker even at ?100’000 could claim that with a straight face?