XIO

Okay, so... Yeah, I find it very, terribly ugly (especially if compared to Stage or something like the Devialet Dione or KEF XIO - personally I'm not a massive fan of the Theatre design either but it's waay better than this). But I'd be okay with that. Thing is, it is basically only as powerful as S

Why did you buy active speakers if you went with the Wiim? The KEF LSX II allow an analog input, so it would be standalone + the turntable. It also has built-in Airplay1/2, Chromecast and more. In terms of sound there's no comparison, since switching I haven't looked back. If you position them corre

Final update: I removed the KW2 completely and connected the KC62 to the XIO using the subwoofer cable I bought. And now everything works. The subwoofer is properly recognized, the setup behaves normally, and the KC62 works as expected. No pairing issues, no lost sync after idle, no weird wireless b

I finally got the KW2 to pair, but in a really weird way. Resetting the XIO didn’t fix it. The KW2 kept blinking cyan/white. What eventually triggered the sync was going into KEF Connect > Subwoofer > KW2 firmware update. The update itself is broken and spins forever, but launching that update someh

Airplay 1 does cast 16-bit/44.1Khz lossless. All KEF W2 speakers with network connectivity support this. Does Apple let you choose to use this when they also support Airplay 2? Nope. Airplay 2 is indeed fixed to 256Kbps AAC or DD+ Atmos for the Atmos audio, which is not supported by many players or

After having used Samsung's high-end soundbars over the past decade, I purchased the KEF XIO soundbar along with a KEF KC62 subwoofer and connected them via a KW2, and I can attest that the XIO soundbar is in a class unto itself, but I've had nothing but problems with the KC62/KW2 combo compared to

It doesn't sound anything like the Devialet in a positive way. And to me it doesn't look alike at all, otherwise many soundbars look alike 😅. Not much variation you can have with the boxy "bar" look. There are several others that can be wall mounted the same way. If you check the pictures of the ins

I reset the XIO soundbar, but that didn’t solve the issue by itself. The KW2 was still blinking cyan/white and would not pair normally. However, I eventually managed to get it to sync in a very strange way. I went into KEF Connect > Subwoofer > KW2 firmware update. The update itself never completes

The XIO eventually went into idle mode, and after that I lost the KW2 sync again. I tried the same “workaround” as before — launching the KW2 firmware update from KEF Connect — but this time it did not bring the sync back. So at this point I honestly have no idea how this system is supposed to work.

I appreciate this insight! Hearing about their soundbar is very interesting and has me thinking my future needs may be met by a soundbar setup in the future instead of moving to a receiver based separates system. I noticed What HiFi named the XIO soundbar their top premium pick so I'd believe it sou