Kii Three HiFi Loudspeaker
Simply connect your analogue source, CD player/drive, server, streamer, TV or set top box to enjoy a breathtakingly audiophile full range system in a stunningly small footprint.
Each Kii THREE contains a multi channel DSP, multiple DACs and power amplifiers. Few companies could pull off such a densely packed design with truly world class performance electronics. But then again, few active speakers are designed by people who have previously turned high end power amplification and digital conversion around.
Each Kii THREE holds 1.500 W amplification power. Designed by Bruno Putzeys using the latest iteration of class D technology. Unique to the implementation used in the Kii THREE is a combined voltage/current control loop that goes beyond merely a better amp – it actively improves the distortion performance of the drive units which contributes significantly to the extreme resolution of the speaker.
Naturally, this means that the performance of the AD/DA conversion has to match that of the amps. This task fell to Bart van der Laan who has a long track record designing DSP and converter boards for high-end professional audio equipment. Kii Audio’s implementation is a runaway success: a complete pass through the AD/DA circuitry of the THREE’s signal processing board is entirely inaudible, a feat not duplicated by the most expensive audiophile standalone units.
Alongside the Active Wave Focusing filters the DSP is responsible for keeping the drive units within their safe operating range by gently adapting the filters instead of brutally limiting the signal, allowing the THREE to play significantly louder and cleaner than much bigger traditional designs.
On the input side there is a choice of analogue, digital inputs. All digital inputs are re-sampled and reclocked using Kii’s own jitter rejection algorithm that guarantees actual “bits is bits” audio performance for any digital source.
The electronics package alone sets a milestone. What it does in concert with the unique acoustic design defies imagination. You have to hear it to realise the magnitude of the revolution the Kii THREE represents.
The THREE speaker is small and powerful, built to give you the deep bass.
The Kii THREE is an amazing speaker that is small enough to fit easily into modern living spaces. It doesn’t take over your habitat like a huge old audiophile setup, there are no racks, no big towers, no cables to trip over.
Active Wave Focusing
The THREE is the first compact speaker that exceeds the clarity of a full size sound system in a large room while its small size means it’s equally at home in much more modest spaces.
In fact, smaller rooms will benefit most from the THREE’s controlled bass. Better than big speakers at sounding big and better adapted for small rooms than other small speakers.
The Future of Music Reproduction is Here
Kii’s mission for the THREE was to break the sonic mould of compact speakers. Powerful small speakers with deep bass have been around for a while now but none so far sounded like a big speaker. The THREE is built to fix that.
Kii Control
The Kii CONTROL turns the Kii THREE into a complete playback system of highest sonic quality and usability. It offers a user interface for your speakers and works like a digital preamplifier.
Only connect your analogue source, CD player/drive, server, streamer, TV set or set top box to enjoy a breathtakingly audiophile full range system in a stunningly small footprint.
The Kii CONTROL offers three additional digital inputs for the Kii THREE: Coax SPDIF, Optical TOSLINK and USB (up to LPCM 24/384kHz or DSD64/128 on USB).
- 6.5” woofer
- 5” midrange
- 1” waveguided tweeter, all individually driven
- Amplification: 1.500 W full-custom Class D
- Active Wave Focusing crossover filter
- Frequency response: ± 0,5dB - 25 kHz, 20Hz -6dB (*)
- Integrated tone control
- Phase response: selectable, linear phase or minimum latency
- Protection limiters
- Controlled Directivity: 4.8dB (54Hz - 1kHz, slowly rising thereafter)
- Size: 20x40x40cm, 8”x16”x16” (WxHxD)
- Weight: 19kg (40lbs)
- Inputs: Analogue, AES/EBU, KiiLink
- SPDIF, TOSLink, USB on Kii Control
- Available in:
- Dark Grey Finetouch Matt
- White Finetouch Matt
- Iced Bronze
- Azzurro
- Spring Green
- Nardo Grey
- High Gloss White
- Tempranillo Red
- Phoenix Orange
- Rosso Corsa
- Iced Green
- Iced Sapphire
- Graphite Satin
- Iced Titanium
- Any custom colour