My friend is still working on an audio room, he has a set of KEF Ref 3's in the box. I offered to break them in, and, he said alright. We got them into place and hooked them up in my room tonight. They sounded incredible out of the box so it will be interesting to see if break in does much for them. I need to look them up and get more info on them. So far they have excellent midrange and a really engaging overall sound. They are high gloss white but with the color of drivers they look good.