KEF Stream

GP Acoustics International Ltd

About this app

This app allows you to play music content up to 192kHz/24bit resolution over Wi-Fi to your LS50 Wireless and LSX. Together with the KEF Control app, you can have full control over your speaker system.

Key features:
• Stream music from your local Library, Media Servers, TIDAL, and Spotify Connect.
• Create and save custom playlists

Note: to play Apple Music purchased from iTunes store (this excludes Apple Music Streaming Service) and your own music collection imported to your iTunes Library, you must first download it offline to your device before you can stream it to the LS50 Wireless.

If you experience any issues with the app, please use the Send Feedback option in Settings > About with a short description of the issue you are encountering.

Ratings and reviews

Trying to use tidal through this app is an utter nightmare. You basically need to babysit your phone and manually initiate each song one by one. Playing an album is nearly impossible as there's about a 25% chance that the next track will play, and if it does, it adds about 20 seconds of silence between tracks.

The app's feature set is promising, but bugs and crashes really bring it down. Over the course of using them for two days the music has stopped between tracks and failed to restart 5 times. In each instance when I force stopped the app and cleared its cache it started working again. This is a real disappointment for an otherwise fantastic set of wireless speakers.

Like the other KEF app (why does it take two, when Sonos works faultlessly with one?), the KEF Stream cripples a potentially good product, to the point that I won't buy anything else from KEF. An utter waste of £1000 LSX speakers. They are only reliably used via optical connection from a CD player. Bluetooth works, but quality is average at best, and the sound/picture lag from either YouTube or TV is so distracting that watching anything with speech is impossible. Can I rate the app as zero?

What’s new

- Added Smart Assistance support for EU, UK, US region
- Various improvements, bug and crash fixes