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But the first 30 minutes of the film depicts one of his pre-crash missions as a crewmember in a B-24 bomber. When the film was released in 2014 this opening sequence became prime demo fodder at home theater shows everywhere. It’s alive with the roar of four noisy aircraft engines, wind from the open bomb bay doors as the crew attempts to close them, machine gun fire, exploding anti-aircraft flak, and a near tragic crash landing. While in some respects the KEF, in my room, didn’t attempt to deliver the sort of ear-searing experience the above description might suggest. It was instead totally believable—realistic without pushing over-the-top simply for effect. Never having been in the same situation as the bomber crew, I can’t say for certain exactly what real machine guns and flak explosions sound like. But I was impressed enough by the KEF’s crisp, bottom-end clarity and startling punch to convince me that I’d rather not volunteer as a crew member on a B-24 bomber to experience the real thing!

Of all the films in my collection, however, Blade Runner 2049 offers possibly the most challenging bottom end. While the KEF can’t quite match the sheer bass weight at high levels of the two ported, spatially displaced subwoofers that usually handle the deepest bass in my room, it came remarkably close at roughly one-eighth the total size. The KEF also surprised me in how it revealed to me (for the first time) some very deep and extremely low bass in both the abandoned factory scenes (as officer K/Joe searches for clues to his past) and, later, a sequence in a similarly abandoned Las Vegas.

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