Inside VECO—KEF’s Breakthrough Active-Speaker Technology

2025-07-08

This week, SoundStage! Audiophile Podcast host Jorden Guth is joined once again by Jack Oclee-Brown, VP of Technology at KEF, to discuss the company’s new VECO technology, what inspired it, how it works, how it was developed, and the new products that rely heavily on it. Sources: “Xio with VECO: KEF’s Revolutionary Velocity Control Technology in Its First Soundbar Explained”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K842LVG1Ur0 “KEF's Breakthrough VECO Speaker Technology to Lower Distortion–Explained by Its Inventors”:

This week, SoundStage! Audiophile Podcast host Jorden Guth is joined once again by Jack Oclee-Brown, VP of Technology at KEF, to discuss the company’s new VECO technology, what inspired it, how it works, how it was developed, and the new products that rely heavily on it.

Sources:

“Xio with VECO: KEF’s Revolutionary Velocity Control Technology in Its First Soundbar Explained”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K842LVG1Ur0

“KEF's Breakthrough VECO Speaker Technology to Lower Distortion–Explained by Its Inventors”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pXeETlY4uU

Chapters:
00:00:00 Announcement
00:00:31 What is VECO
00:07:54 The inspiration for VECO
00:20:15 The ups and downs of voltage amplification
00:24:05 New soundbar, who dis?
00:31:53 Building a better playlist
00:33:44 Outro music: “Nao’s Lullaby” by Rafi B. Levy

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