![]() ![]() Cooke acquired the site of a foundry, makers of agricultural machines, and initially worked in Nissen huts erected on the site in Tovil, Maidstone. Following corporate change at Wharfedale, Cooke left to see his own ideas put into action. He was later Technical Director at Wharfedale, then a leading British loudspeaker manufacturer. Ĭooke was a Royal Navy WWII veteran who was a design engineer at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for a year. KEF Electronics was founded in Kent in 1961 and was physically situated on land adjacent to the River Medway in Tovil which at the time was owned by Kent Engineering & Foundry (a company owned by Robert Pearch and founded by his father Leonard) who at the time manufactured agricultural equipment and industrial sweeping machines. Raymond Cooke and Robert Pearch founded KEF Electronics Ltd., with a view to creating innovative loudspeakers using the latest in materials technology. KEF also published more than 50 academic papers and has received two Queen's Awards for Export Achievement. KEF has received over 300 awards and holds more than 150 patents. KEF is the first company to use metamaterial to absorb the unwanted sound from the rear of speaker driver in HiFi industry, the technology is called Metamaterial Absorption Technology (MAT). KEF introduced the world's first coincident source speaker driver called Uni-Q in 1988 which has evolved to 12th generation since then, and it is still featured in almost all its speakers today. KEF was the first loudspeaker manufacturer in the world to implement the use of computers in loudspeaker design and measurement. Since the company's establishment, KEF has always driven innovation in sound. KEF's ethos is based on the continuing quest to find new and better ways of reproducing sound. Product development, acoustical technology research and the manufacture of signature products still occurs at the original Maidstone site in England. KEF is named after its original site, Kent Engineering and Foundry. It was founded in Maidstone, Kent in 1961 by a BBC engineer Raymond Cooke OBE (1925–1995). KEF is a British company specialising in the design and production of a range of high-end audio products, including HiFi speakers, subwoofers, architecture speakers, wireless speakers, and headphones. GP Acoustics International Ltd., a subsidiary of Gold Peak Technology Group Limited ![]() Hi-Fi Speakers, Wireless Hi-Fi Speakers, Loudspeakers, Subwoofers, Headphones, Bluetooth Speakers, Portable Speakers ![]()
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