A Cut Above
Excellent speakers. I originally bought the r3s and r2c (2018) with LS50s as my surrounds. Sounded great but then KEF had a sale on the whole R line so I upgraded to 2-R700s, 1-r200c, 2-r300 for fear, and 4 iqr2000 for Atmos in ceiling, and R400 sub (steal at $4700).
Excellent detail, imaging, life-like mids, surprising bass, smooth and non-fatiguing; Better than B&W 702 and very similar to Monitor Audio Gold200
Power hungry to get them to shine, so quality separate amp is necessary; Sounded good with Marantz 7013, but are on another level with 200plus watts of clean Rotel power