KEF Introduces New THX Certified Home Audio Architectural Speakers

As immersive audio continues to gain popularity in home cinema applications, more home owners want to update or create custom home theaters with high-impact in-wall speakers. The latest additions to KEF's Extreme Home Theatre range - the Ci5160RLM-THX and Ci3160RLM-THX - are in-wall architectural speakers that deliver sound with all the detail and depth required by immersive audio content, providing a new emotional level of entertainment when watching movies, playing games, and listening to music.
 
With decades of experience in speaker design, KEF has produced the Ci-R Series installation speakers, a direct beneficiary of the technological innovations developed for the brand's Reference series, KEF's benchmark for loudspeakers and sound reproduction since its launch in 1973. With a paintable metallic grille, these in-wall speakers seamlessly blend into any home decor and allow listeners to immerse themselves in a movie experience, without seeing the speakers and benefiting from a true home theater environment, which can even be creates in living rooms.

According to the British manufacturer, these Ci-R Series speakers incorporate a 12th generation Uni-Q driver array featuring KEF's Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MAT), which ensures the best experience to every listening position in the room. The Ci5160RLM-THX and Ci3160RLM-THX both carry the prestigious THX Certified Ultra designation, having undergone rigorous tests in output levels, frequency response, signal-to-noise ratio, and distortion, ensuring it recreates high-impact cinema sound and best-in-class audio fidelity.
  Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MAT) is a highly complex maze-like structure that absorbs 99% of the unwanted sound from the rear of the driver, delivering a crisper, more natural treble performance - and these Ci-R series have implemented the benefits of this groundbreaking technology also inside the wall.

"Hide your speakers, not your sound" is the concept behind every KEF architectural speaker. True to this ideal, these two new additions are designed to be discreet in appearance and engineered with best-in-class acoustic performance, delivering an immersive soundscape, while the speakers blend into the interior design. The Ci5160RLM-THX and Ci3160RLM-THX are available in Aluminum Silver, an anodized silver aluminum front baffle including tone matched Uni-Q and bass drivers. The speakers also come with a paintable magnetic metal grille, which can be color matched to the interior style. A black cloth grille can be purchased as an additional accessory as well.

The KEF Ci5160RLM-THX and Ci3160RLM-THX retail for $2,999.99 and $1,999.99 respectively.
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