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The KC92 is tight, clean and dynamic, dispelling any fears of bass bloat. Its DSP works cleverly too, so that deep bass remains apparent even at quiet listening levels. I was taken aback by the extra bounce and heft in Raury’s ‘Devil’s Whisper’ [All We Need, Columbia; 44.1kHz/24-bit] with the system volume dialled low. As I was with Kraftwerk’s ‘Electrocardiogram’ [3-D: The Catalogue, Parlophone; 44.1kHz/24-bit], with its stop-start drum programming.

Perhaps the proof of the value of the KC92 (or a pair of them) was hearing Don Henley’s ‘The Boys Of Summer’ [Building The Perfect Beast; Geffen Records GFLD 19267] with its synth intro and famous guitar riff. There was much more expansion, greater scale, a deeper floor and a grander overall sound with the subs in play. Henley sings ‘I feel it in the air’ and I knew what he meant. To mangle a Darth Vader line, the force-cancelling is strong with this one.

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