When connected to proper amplifier with good watts, these speakers sing. I hooked the to marantz PM75, very clear vocals, well controlled treble and bass.All the necessary details in music are clear as well as the soundstage is very good. I was really impressed that it made me smile in a very long time. I have tried other good brands but not like the kefs. last week I tried connecting it to a home cinema receiver just to compare and i find them to be shy. Not as detailed and open as in the amplifier and some of the mids are vague. if you want them to rock, connect them to a proper integrated or powered amp and you will see what im talking about. Excellent speakers for the price range. Highly recommended.

excellent

Bass, loudness of them.

Front want to fall off after a few hard working years. but hey there for listing not for watching

Hook these badboys to the right system and the sound is just sheer quality.I've had them for a few years now and they keep on impressing to this very day.

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the mid-range

the cabinets-as others have noted, they cheap looking.

I have been using these speakers for 3 months now--I originally bought them to supplement a wharfedale/klipsch 5.1 setup as rears in 7.1. But these KEFs are
so superior in the mid-range and with dialogue that they have move to the front of my system displacing my beloved emerald 97s. KEF simply rules the mid-range. These are ideal speakers for reproducing the human voice.

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Maybe Klipsch comes close, but don't know that I've ever heard a 3in1 speaker so keyed to the midrange..

Detail, soundstage, warmth, good all round performance.

Material of cabinet. Front baffle comes loose after a few years and need to re-glue to the cabinet

I had the Coda 9 since 1996(app.maybe'95?) It was an up-grading process from bookshelf to floor-standing speakers. The magic of all the KEFs are that if you couple them with good cables and components, and with the right tweaks, they produce wonders. I used the Coda 9 mostly with CD-53 mkII cd-player, Audio Alchemy DAC in the Box & later PS audio DL-3 HDCD DAC, Conrad Johnson PV-10AL Pre and a Velleman Mosfet 100w class A Power Amp built from a Kit. Van Den Hul 102 MkV purple from DAC to MF X-10D, Belden Silver plated Home-made interconnect to Pre and Nordost Black Knight to power. Kimber 8TC speaker cables or MIT terminator3. I used two special copper adjustable spike riased rectanglar birch chopping boards under the Coda. After the initial burn-in, the Coda sounded as good if not better than any audiophile speaker several time its price. Although I have up-graded my components and speakers several time, I still keep the Coda and listen to them occasionally. It is great to use the Coda 9 to listen to something like Pat Coil's Schemes & Dreams from Sheffield Lab. Where the range from very low volume single keyboard/piano to full blast dynamics with a lot of details. I read some previous reviews that said the bass of the Coda is not enough. With enough power from the power amp to drive them the coda 9's bass can be quite impressive. The only draw back is the front baffle made of plastic comes off easily in time. But it is very easy to glue back using a glue gun or silicon glass glue.

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Great with Stereo soundtracks and with home cinema applications. I use them with a Marantz PM66 ki sig amp, a Marantz CD63 mk2 ki sig cd player, Cable talk 3.1 with gold plated bananas, and SONIC LINK VIOLET interconnects.

avoid toing in.

I purchased these loudspeakers by reccomendation by a friend, and i must say that for the money paid, they are truly outstanding. Any other loudspeaker now seems like a sidestep.

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Details, warm sounding, deep bass

Dependable of speaker wires

KEF Coda 9 are really amazing speakers, especially for jazz music and classic. I used speaker wires Qued Qudos silver and was very satisfied, but best speaker wires for Coda 9 are Nordost Flatline Gold II and NAD C340 Apmlifier. Gloriously open, fast, clean and detailed sound with defined and deep bass. Sound stage is great.Subwoofer gets down to 29 Hz. So, this speakers a little short of a miracle, but dependable of wires and other components.

Are these enclosures reactive or what?. Made from cardboard I guess.KEF would have been better off scrapping that extra bass unit and spending that money on the cabinets. Remove that hidden base unit and get a decent sub!

The Coda 9s may not be excellent, they don't have the depth or drive to pin you to the back of the seat with aggressive rock or thumping dance tracks, but they do alright with most material. They sound pleasantly smooth with jazz or mainstream pop. Bass can be lightweight, but are sufficently warm for most music. They work well with NAD or Arcam amplifiers. Smooth and good detail with good midband and an expressive treble. Just don't crank it up too much. Thre Coda 9s are good enough for most modest systems. Soundstage can be quite expansive if you use good cables, such as the Nordost Flatline Gold Mk II I'm using. Be warned though. Use poor cables and the speakers sound soft, dumpy and harsh. I have been using them for some three years and intend to upgrade the Coda 9s. But they have served me well as entry level floorstanders.

After living with these black boxes from England for a year, I have yet to find anything serious enough to hold against it. Utilizing the same drivers used in the smaller Coda 8 with the addition of a downward-firing driver to handle the lower frequencies, the Coda 9's perform a wide range of musical duties with ease. It is as much at home with contemporary jazz as it is to R&B or pop. Lower frequency limit is rated at around 40Hz which is decent enough for most kinds of music except maybe heavy rap. With good recordings the KEF's reveal layers of musical detail with an expansive soundstage which belies its size. A little more forward than most British speakers, including KEF's own Q series, they can occasionally hint at being just a tad too crisp in the treble region. While their looks are kind of a 'love it or hate it' issue, I feel that their overall build could do with some improvement. But, petty complaints aside, this is a very competent speaker for the price and worthy of a serious audition.