KEF was founded on innovation and new technology. They are recognized in the history of loudspeaker development as one of the most important contributors and a great deal of there research has been published at well respected professional institutions, including the Audio Engineering Society and the Institute of Acoustics. KEF’s research legacy includes contributions from some of the greatest and most respected loudspeaker designers of the last five decades. Today, KEF is the company to beat in computer analysis of loudspeakers. The software that they use to run their analyze is also used to power eighty-five percent of the world’s supercomputers. They strive always to better understand the instruments that they design and manufacture.