Prestige Stand

Introduction
Qln One was the start of truncated cabinet design for Qln. When it was launched 1981 at CES in Chicago One was the first truncated bookshelf speaker in the world. The shape is a unique Qln design with combination of visual timeless and functional design. Now 40 years later with still use the same design concept, just refining it. This the optimum cabinet design in terms of performance.
We don’t show our technical solutions, we try to hide them and just present a piece of musical furniture that can be nicely placed in your living room. All the technical solutions are present, but the only role for them is to recreate the recorded music from your source. We must not forget, that the purpose of a speaker is to recall an original sound event, making it live again and providing the same emotions we feel when listening to a big orchestra, a string quartet, a rock band, a jazz trio or just a vocal with a piano.
This is why Qln thinks of speakers as musical instruments. We know that good sound depends on the acoustic chamber just like an acoustic instrument. But opposite to music instruments we don’t create sound, we just reproduce it.
Qln has always searched for cabinet shapes and proportions that will guarantee exceptional control of internal resonance, perfect acoustics, excellent driver stability, phase response and easy integration in rooms.

As always, here at Qln the total functional design is the result of the demands for the resulting sound.

History
The designer’s approach and challenge when seeking out to refine the Qln One platform was to improve an already eloquent performance in a number of challenging performance areas including further reduction of distortion and increasing presence, timing, timbre, level of detail and micro/macro dynamics, regardless of level, scale and complexity of program material.
These endeavours have once again after Qln One was introduced 40 years ago, resulted in a timeless and perfected combination of impeccable form and function, offering an uncompromised and unique insight into any program material.

Design details

Cabinet
A slanted baffle provides perfect time alignment between woofer and tweeter. The truncated pyramid cabinet with its minimized baffle area suppresses any standing waves inside the cabinet also offering improved 3D imaging.
By again basing the cabinet construction around Qln’s unique Qboard® technology, structural resonances are eliminated. The bass reflex port with its trumpet shape eliminates air turbulence.
Cabinet is heavily braced to give stiff cabinet and the damping pads make in non resonant so the cabinet don’t store sound in the time domain. Natural wool is used for internal acoustic damping because it sound best and have a wider frequency damping  of the internal sound. It is loose packed so we don’t store sound in the damping material. We use minimum damping material and apply it where it make the most use, in center and middle of the cabinet where air speed is at maximum. Then we can apply minimum damping material to achieve  maximum damping of the internal sound.