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News KEF Cues up a Brilliant New Series of Home Loudspeakers (1/8/2005) The Q Series of Home Entertainment Loudspeakers Features Eight Models Redesigned from Top to Bottom for High-Definition Home Theater Sound and Music Continuing with its heritage of outstanding audio performance and ingenious engineering, KEF is introducing fully redesigned versions of its award-winning Q Series audiophile loudspeakers. This complete line features eight new models, each of which is built to produce stunning movie sound and music while beautifully complementing a variety of home interiors. Each speaker in the new Q Series has been upgraded with new driver materials and surrounds, as well as proven technologies from the flagship Reference line. This new family, available in mid-August, represents the cutting edge of audio entertainment with a design concept that is based on both superb function and aesthetic elegance. "Our new Q Series exemplifies our achievement of 'acoustic intelligence,' which results from the combination of our proprietary technologies and inspired us to name the models 'iQ,' " said Alec Chanin, president of KEF America. "The improved performance of the new family can be heard immediately. The power handling and sensitivity are improved, and the bass response is tighter yet more robust. And since we use the latest incarnation of our hallmark Uni-Q(R) driver array, there is a new clarity to vocals that is truly stunning. The new Q Series will impress the most discerning audiophile." KEF's Q Series is comprised of eight speaker models, with varieties of floor-standing and bookshelf models, as well as center channel and surround speakers. KEF engineers created a variety of models to allow for total freedom in customizing a complete home theater sound system and to complement the décor of virtually any home. Every speaker in the line features the newest version of KEF's proprietary Uni-Q(R) driver array. This breakthrough design places a high-frequency driver in the acoustic center of a bass/mid-frequency driver, achieving the near-perfect, single-point-source driver that acoustic engineers have sought for decades. The result is sound that is precisely dispersed from each driver, on a single axis and over a much broader area. This greatly expands the "sweet spot" to include more seating positions and give listeners throughout the entire room a lifelike and detailed soundstage. The Q Series Uni-Q(R) arrays have been upgraded with new aluminum dome tweeters and titanium-coated bass/midrange cones. The materials not only look stunning, they ensure silky response at high frequencies and full yet well-defined sound in the low range. Beyond the drivers, each Q Series speaker's outer design is built to elicit maximum performance. Each Uni-Q(R) 'pod' is housed by an elliptical-section cabinet that minimizes distortion and had previously been available only in KEF's flagship Reference Series speakers. Each speaker also has massive internal bracing to tailor each enclosure's volume to the parameters of its individual driver complement, as well as reduce unwanted outer-panel vibrations. KEF offers each Q Series speaker in four finishes, Black Ash, Dark Apple, Maple, and Ð new for the iQ models Ð American Walnut. All eight speakers will be available in mid-August of 2005. The New Q Series Home Entertainment Loudspeakers Series Includes: iQ1 iQ2C iQ3 iQ5 iQ6C iQ7 iQ8DS iQ9
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