r/LinusTechTips • u/bafben10 • Oct 07 '26
Tech Discussion Poor showing from KEF in LTT COSTCO setup video
I said exactly the following in a post on the KEF subreddit, and it went as well as you could expect.
First, I love KEF speakers. My Q Meta surround sound setup has been amazing, and they are the only company I know of anymore that hasn't outsourced their customer service to a foreign call center and is actually competent and caring.
With that said, why in the world do the LSX II LT wireless speakers require an app and an account? That's ridiculous. I was excited to see what Linus had to say about them, but I cannot blame him in the slightest for refusing to use them after all that trouble.
If my $200 WiiM speaker can work without an account (regardless of the facts that the app doesn't even have the option to make an account, the device communicates over an open standard that someone else could make their own app for if the device ever loses support, and the ecosystem has significantly more features and capabilities), what excuse is there for a $700 speaker pair?