Description
Concept 300
Q Acoustics Concept 300 is a premium stand-mountable passive loudspeaker system.
Since its founding in 2006, Q Acoustics has built an unrivalled reputation. They design, engineer and manufacture innovative, high-performance and class-leading loudspeakers at every price-point. This ongoing and concerted demonstration of excellence has all led to Concept 300.
The brief for Concept 300 was simple, yet staggeringly ambitious: Try to build upon on the runaway success of the floor-standing Concept 500. Deliver a stand-mounted alternative that is more affordable. Ensure utterly uncompromising performance and stylish, understated elegance.
The days of performance being the be-all and end-all of a loudspeaker are long gone. Aesthetic considerations are perfectly valid and, to this end, in the Concept 300 Q Acoustics have designed a high-end, high-performance loudspeaker that is sophisticated yet able to interact discreetly with any interior design vocabulary.
On the outside, numerous lacquer coats produce a high-quality gloss finish which is combined with real-wood veneers. This results in a cabinet that manages to be clean and understated at the same time as being of obviously high perceived value.
The uncluttered look of the cabinets is further enhanced by innovative drive unit mounting. Both the tweeter and mid / bass driver are fixed, from behind, by strong spring-tensioned retaining bolts. This negates the need for any exposed bolt-heads on the speaker face.
At the rear of the speaker, Concept 300 features an over-specified terminal panel which is designed to resist vibrations from the cabinet. It’s equipped for bi-wiring (or bi-amping) via its electrically isolated terminals. These can accept bare wire, spade connectors or 4 mm banana plugs.
Ideally, the only vibrations a loudspeaker produces are the ones required to generate its sound. Of course it is not possible to entirely rid a loudspeaker cabinet of unwanted vibrations that can interfere with its performance, but as Q Acoustics has demonstrated with the Concept 300, it is possible to keep cabinet vibrations to an absolute minimum in order to deliver entirely uncorrupted sound.
Tensegrity Stands
With a standmounting speaker design like this, of course, the speaker’s relationship with its stand is of fundamental importance. And it’s the design of the new Tensegrity stand, and the new isolation base suspension system that joins Concept 300 to it, that allows Q Acoustics to redefine the level of performance that’s possible from a smaller loudspeaker.
Tensegrity is a tripod – by definition, an extremely stable structure. It’s built It’s built from precision machined stainless steel rods (which are the load-bearing element) and thin stainless steel cables (which maintain the position of the load-bearing rods). The result is an exceptionally rigid and self-supporting structure with a remarkably low surface area and – let’s not pretend otherwise – beautifully elegant appearance. It’s not so much a speaker stand, it’s more an entirely new loudspeaker support concept.
But, of course, it’s of little consequence how efficient your speaker cabinet is, or how ingenious the design of the stand it works from, if the union between the two is unsympathetic or inefficient. Q Acoustics joins Concept 300 speaker to Tensegrity stand with the new isolation base suspension system, which is about as sympathetic and efficient as it gets.
The entire mass of Concept 300 is suspended on the four springs of the newly developed integrated base plate. This isolation base system works in multiple ways: it prevents energy from the speaker leaking into the Tensegrity stand and affecting the sound, it prevents vibrations for the floor making their way from the stands into the speaker, and in every circumstance it provides a rigid coupling between speaker and stand.
Thanks to the combination of Tensegrity stand and isolation base suspension, the performance of Concept 300 is entirely unhindered by internal or external influences.
Features
- Concept 300 redefines the relationship between speaker and stand by using a completely new Tensegrity stand design.
- The Tensegrity stands comprise a structure of load bearing solid stainless steel bars to forming an inherently stable tripod.
- An Isolation Base Suspension System prevents vibrations moving in either direction through the bottom of the speaker.
- Point 2 Point™ cabinet bracing damps the speaker cabinet walls eliminating unwanted energy and reducing distortion.
- Dual Gelcore™layered cabinet converts higher-frequency vibrations into heat for ultra-quiet cabinet construction.
- High quality drivers, also de-coupled from the cabinet, combine with the crossover to give superior wide dispersion.
Specifications
- Enclosure Type: 2-Way Reflex
- Mid / Bass Driver: 165 mm
- High Frequency Unit: 28 mm
- Frequency Response: 55 Hz – 30 kHz
- Nominal Impedance: 6.0 Ohms
- Minimum Impedance: 4.7 Ohms
- Sensitivity: 84 dB
- Stereo Amplifier Power: 25-200 W
- Crossover Frequency: 2.5 kHz
- Effective Volume: 11.4 L
- Dimensions WxHxD: 355 x 200 x 400 mm cabinet
- Dimensions WxHxD: 690 x 492 x 430 mm stand (optional)
- Weight: 14.5 kg (per speaker)
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