KEF unveils all-new Q Series speaker range
Eighth-generation Q Series uses trickle-down technology from KEF Concept Blade speakers

We can this morning exclusively reveal details of KEF's new, eighth-generation Q Series.
The new range uses technology originally designed for KEF's Concept Blade speaker first shown at the Munich High End Show in 2009.
At the heart of the new Q Series is the latest Uni-Q driver array. This has a larger, high-performance vented tweeter mounted at the acoustic centre of a new resonance damped, metal cone LF/MF driver.
The new Q Series' advanced bass driver is also a key part of the design. A die-cast aluminium chassis rigidly locates the high-efficiency vented magnet assembly to prevent unwanted resonance, and the larger 50mm voice coil "ensures impressive power handling and output levels", claims KEF.
First to arrive in the new line-up are the £380 Q100 and £450 Q300. Both are two-way standmounters, the Q100 having a 5.25in Uni-Q driver array and the Q300 a 6.5in Uni-Q. They're available in English cherry, black oak or European walnut finishes.
KEF says the Q100 is ideal as a 'mini monitor' for stereo music playback, or as rear effects speakers in a home cinema set-up. The Q300 is designed as a larger hi-fi speaker, a front speaker in smaller home cinema systems or a rear speaker in larger ones.
The new, more traditional rectilinear cabinet design gives 30 per cent more volume enclosure for deeper bass, adds KEF.
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Further floorstanding, centre speaker and subwoofer models will join the new Q Series range later this year.