Yuri Gargin was the first man in space. Four young men played in a smoky basement club in Liverpool. Bob Dylan and the Berlin Wall both became overnight sensations. And an astute and innovative loudspeaker engineer named Raymond Cooke left his native New Yorkshire and set up his own company on the premises of a metalwork firm called Kent Engineering and Foundry.

KEF was born. From the very beginning KEF led the field in loud- speaker technology. Our first loudspeakers had revolutionary plastic cones and a remarkably compact tweeter. Things that were unheard of by the British listening public at the time. To this day KEF continues to improve and upgrade its loudspeakers while the press, the public and major recording studios continue to use them as a benchmark by which others can be judged.

When you choose a KEF product, you’re investing in over 50 years of innovation dedication and inspiration.

‘Of all art, music is the most indefinable and the most expressive,
the most insubstantial and the most immediate, the most transitory and the most imperishable.

Transformed to a dance of electrons along a wire, its ghost lives on.
When KEF returns music to its rightful habituation, your ears and mind, they aim to do so in the most natural way they can … without drama, without exaggeration, without artifice’.
Raymond Cooke, KEF founder