KEF LS50 Wireless system adds Spotify Connect

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It's time to update the firmware of your LS50 Wireless system and the companion control app...

Support for Spotify Connect looks set to arrive on the LS50 Wireless system, allowing Spotify Premium subscribers to stream the service’s 30 million song catalogue straight from Spotify, using the app as a remote control.

The new feature expands the KEF’s impressive connectivity list, which already includes DLNA streaming, Tidal integration and Bluetooth, as well as playback via its physical inputs: stereo analogue, optical and USB Type B connectors.

We already thought the LS50 Wireless was impressive enough to give it a 2017 Award, but with Spotify often the first go-to streaming service integrated into a network hi-fi system, what with its 60 million subscription base, Spotify Connect on the LS50 Wireless certainly further broadens the system’s appeal.

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Becky Roberts
Becky Roberts
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Becky is a hi-fi, AV and technology journalist, formerly the Managing Editor at What Hi-Fi? and Editor of Australian Hi-Fi and Audio Esoterica magazines. With over twelve years of journalism experience in the hi-fi industry, she has reviewed all manner of audio gear, from budget amplifiers to high-end speakers, and particularly specialises in headphones and head-fi devices.

In her spare time, Becky can often be found running, watching Liverpool FC and horror movies, and hunting for gluten-free cake.