FLOORSTANDING SPEAKERS

If your listening room is better described as ‘spacious’ than ‘compact’, a floorstander is likely to be your best bet

View offers: whf.cm/BestFloorstandingSpeakers2023 Q Acoustics 5040 £999 At just 97cm high and 18cm wide, these floorstanders can slip into most rooms without being obtrusive. A brand new mid/bass driver design uses what Q Acoustics calls a Continuous Curved Cone, with a new geometry that is claimed to marry the rigidity advantages of a standard conical cone profile with the high-frequency break-up characteristics of a more flared design. The cone material is the company’s favoured impregnated paper, and the diaphragm’s diameter is a pretty slim 125mm. The tweeter follows company traditions by being a 25mm soft dome that is decoupled from the front baffle to reduce any distortions caused by structural vibrations. The three drive units are linked by a relatively simple second-order crossover network that uses metallized polyester film capacitors,…

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