How does this make sense, any sense? Any sense at all??

*L*   As for the 'Chewbacca Defense', I'd rather relate to 'letting the Wookie Win Option"...as in 'they might tear your arms off if they lose.'

Not applicable to the Stereophile bi-polar review rankings, but certainly funnier....

Additional (perhaps, 'addict-tional') musings about audio, and how things 'sound'....

Do or have any of you seen the movie "Phantom of the Paradise"?
An entertaining remake of the Phantom/Opera, in the R'nR 'daze'...*G*

There is a segment where The Devil (played by Paul Williams!) has our anti-hero in a studio, singing his 'hit' song.  The man can barely croak in key musically....
Although it pushes the concept a large amount (considering the era the film was made in), the Devil 'restores' the original voice of our poor abused artist with the application of 'modern tech'....Eq, Dolby, etc.

Ever since....I've regarded 'reviews' of various 'devices' as.... 

"Suspect".....Subject to my Own ears, taste...and Desires.

...but I'm just 'fringe' in this 'observation'.....'IMHO', 'n all that... ;)

I think the little KEF is class A within the context of very small monitors.  If you compare it to the field of comparably sized monitors it was judged as good as any of them.  

Click bait thread titles don't make sense either, yet here we are.

FWIW the kef ls50s sound is similar to me to the other Stereophile Class A small monitors they replaced, Triangle Titus, so at least they are consistent in this case with what they consider to sound good.
I do think however that though similar the KEFs are noticeably better at least with my gear.  The Triangles however are much better suited for use with tube amps.