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What reviewers are saying
We read all the reviews. Here's what reviewers feel most strongly about:
- Qln speakers are voiced for a natural, organic sound that prioritizes a coherent and seamless presentation across the frequency range, offering an inviting listening experience.
- The brand employs its proprietary Qboard technology, utilizing a viscoelastic-damped sandwich construction, to minimize cabinet resonances and provide a quieter, less colored background for the music.
- Qln's speaker designs feature time-aligned driver configurations, often using a slanted baffle, to improve phase coherence and create a more focused and immersive soundstage.
Our favorite reviewer quotes:
- "I heard a planar or electrostatic type of cohesiveness and a lack of coloration but with a cone driver type of authority and sense of dynamic contrasts. Music seemed to issue forth off of a totally colorless canvas with no apparent obstacles between me and the recording." (https://pt.audio/2020/05/15/qln-prestige-three-loudspeaker-review)
- "The Qln Prestige Five hang music in the air in a wonderfully fulfilling way, in a manner that allows the thoughts of the day to evaporate replaced by a living, breathing cloud of sound floating in space as if it was being created by a holographic projector, all life-like rich and dimensional. The Prestige Five also offer up a full bodied and richly textured music image, walking that fine line between resolution and tone like an old pro who knows that too much in one direction or the other can shatter the allure and illusion." (https://twitteringmachines.com/review-qln-prestige-five-loudspeakers)
- "They have infectious rhythmic capabilities and a pure, open, communicative and direct and decidedly non-filtered and non-electronic sound. Even though the midrange does not come across as being ruler-flat, the speakers manage to create an acoustic that feels highly natural." (https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/review/loudspeaker-reviews/loudspeakers-passive-reviews/prestige-one)
- "Every pair of Qln speakers I've heard offer some of the smoothest and perfectly saturated sound I've experienced but the Reference 9s add a refined richness, greater reach, and a more physically involving sound that acts like an open-armed invitation to losing one's way in music. And Wild God is a record you want to dive into all the way without any strings of past favorites, and for me Nick Cave offers a rich mine, attached." (https://twitteringmachines.com/review-qln-reference-9-loudspeakers)
- "Scale, some brute force, and the ability to remain calm and resolving through even the heaviest squalls are all required traits for the hifi in charge of delivering all of Romance's largess and the Qln Reference 9s, now driven by the very capable Octave Audio V 70 Integrated Amplifier and its very hearty 50 Watts of output power (into 4 Ohms), projected a stadium-sized and highly refined sound image in Barn. The Qln's, whether driven by the Vinnie Rossi BRAMA or Octave V 70, offered full range sound with deep hefty well defined and formed bass and a kind of rich silkiness all the way up to the highest strings and things adding up to some of the most inviting sound I've had here in Barn." (https://twitteringmachines.com/review-qln-reference-9-loudspeakers)
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Products
Lineup comparison
We think it's helpful to understand how their products compare. To learn more about each, scroll to the section above to click through to individual product pages.
PRESTIGE ONE
- Positioning: A compact 2-way monitor designed for small spaces and budget-friendly setups.
- Description: Uses a carefully matched Scan Speak driver with a slanted baffle and minimal cabinet design to provide clear imaging and balanced sound reproduction. In contrast to the larger floor-standing models, its simple design makes it ideal for small rooms and users with moderate needs, though it lacks the extended bass and advanced features seen in higher-tier products.
PRESTIGE THREE
- Positioning: A 2-way floor-standing speaker that builds on classic design with enhanced performance.
- Description: Features a custom-coated Kevlar woofer and advanced tweeter paired with a time-aligned cabinet for improved dynamics and clarity. Compared to the Prestige One, it delivers fuller bass and better dynamics.
PRESTIGE FIVE
- Positioning: A high-performance 2.5-way floor-standing speaker aimed at delivering refined dynamics and resolution.
- Description: Offers a custom 184mm Kevlar mid-woofer with an under-hung magnet system and non-resonant cabinet technology to achieve improved detail and controlled bass response. When compared to the Prestige One and Three, it provides a step-up in performance.
THE SIGNATURE
- Positioning: A flagship 2-way speaker that showcases advanced design and state-of-the-art driver technology.
- Description: Uses a specially coated Kevlar mid-woofer with Qboard cabinet construction to reduce resonance and deliver precise timing across the spectrum. In comparison to the Prestige series and even the Reference model, its refined driver and crossover technologies offer a higher level of clarity and engagement.
REFERENCE 9
- Positioning: A statement 3-way speaker engineered to set a new benchmark in detailed sound reproduction.
- Description: Integrates dedicated 7" midrange and 9" woofer drivers with proprietary Qboard technology to yield enhanced timing, low distortion, and precise dynamics. Compared with all other models in the lineup, it delivers the most advanced technological features and extended bass performance.
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About the brand
Our interview with the brand
What are two key technological innovations or strong opinions that differ you from other brands?
What's your approach to customer support?
What are your favorite tracks for showcasing the strength of your products?
What other products pair best with yours?
Featured products
About the brand
Our interview with the brand
What are two key technological innovations or strong opinions that differ you from other brands?
What's your approach to customer support?
What are your favorite tracks for showcasing the strength of your products?
What other products pair best with yours?
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About the brand
Our interview with the brand
What are two key technological innovations or strong opinions that differ you from other brands?
Unlike the vast majority of our competitors, who simply use others' active components, we have, from inception, March 2001, designed and manufactured our very own bespoke, proprietary drive units. The resultant filter networks are ridiculously simple. By controlling the whole process, we are able to derive the exact response from each in it's system. A little appreciated advange too, is we are able to provide spare parts for an extended period.
Any vibrating device will impart that vibration to the substrate to which it is fixed. At Vivid Audio at no time do we couple drive units to the cabinet directly, each is decoupled by a carefully selected soft, 30 shore silicone, memory free O ring. In the case of bass units, we go one step futher - in addition to the decoupling O ring, each driver is apposed by another identical bass unit in a reaction cancelling configuration. Expensive, resulting in an inert cabinet. Note the lack of visible fixing harware.
A perfect acoustic solution.
(No matter how heavy you make a loudspeaker cabinet, all one is doing is shifting the damped resonances in band. Place your ear against any loudspeaker to appreciate this. The worst case example is the ubiquitous eccentricly loaded sub woofer.)
We strive for as lower mass as possible in an extremely stiff configuration. The lower the mass, the lower the energy strorage. The same requirement as aircraft, race cars etc. There are many other unique technologies we employ, jointly presenting the cleanest window into the music. Our web page details these.
What's your approach to customer support?
What are your favorite tracks for showcasing the strength of your products?
What other products pair best with yours?
It would be foolhardy of me to send you a short list - by definition would exclude many excellent brands of which we have no knowledge. Suffice to say: Unusually, we expend an exorbitant effort in perfecting the loudspeaker / room interface, no sharp perturbations, corners, discontinuities, etc., and the loudspeaker / amplifier interface, ensuring at the minimum impedance, the current and voltage waveforms are close to being in phase - an ideal situation. Our loudspeakers present an easy load to the amplifier. Quality rather than quantity is emphasized.
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About the brand
Our interview with the brand
What are two key technological innovations or strong opinions that differ you from other brands?
What's your approach to customer support?
What are your favorite tracks for showcasing the strength of your products?
What other products pair best with yours?
Featured products
About the brand
Our interview with the brand
What are two key technological innovations or strong opinions that differ you from other brands?
What's your approach to customer support?
What are your favorite tracks for showcasing the strength of your products?
What other products pair best with yours?
