KEF LSX II Active Wireless Loudspeaker

By Drew Kalbach

Performance Meets Convenience

I first reviewed the original KEF LSX back in 2019 and had nothing but good things to say about it. True, wireless speakers were relatively new at that point—there weren’t a ton of competitors on the market, and at the time I felt like KEF nailed the sound, look, and experience. Since then, I’ve nominated the LSXes multiple times for Golden Ear awards, and I still think they hold up as fantastic streaming speakers with great sound. Obviously, when asked to review the KEF LSX IIs ($1399), I basically dropped everything, told my family I would not speak with them for at least a month, collected canned goods and bottled water, and began to hibernate with nothing but an Internet connection and some acoustic treatment panels. Were they worth this self-imposed and totally needless (also not real) break from reality? Probably, but it never happened, so we’ll never find out.

Like the original version, the LSX IIs are compact bookshelf speakers. My rev…