QLN Prestige One

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It was warm, it was open, it was holographic, and it sounded incredibly natural in every way.

The Qln Prestige One monitors were one of the most endearing and talented two-way monitors I’ve heard.

After I was told the price, the checkbook would pop out almost automatically.

                                                                                                                                                             Part Time Audiophile

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It’s a top performer that’s one of the best in its category,

and given the nearly $7k asking price, that nearly takes it to one of the best overall.

In the two-way standmount arena, the QLN Prestige One is one of the very few that pulls off this kind of synergy, bass performance and natural resolution.

                                                                                                                                                             AudioHead

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I was expecting something good and I wasn’t disappointed.

However, I wasn’t expecting something this good.

The sound is so intrinsically ‘right’ and ‘enjoyable’

and that holds whatever music you play through the Prestige One.

Put simply, if you like music, you’ll love the Qln Prestige One !

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Truncated pyramid cabinet top with its minimized baffle area suppresses any standing waves inside the cabinet also offering improved 3D imaging.

• Qboard® technology, structural resonances are eliminated [more on this below].

• Cabinet is de-coupled from the floor via solid feet with cones and pucks constructed out of hard, high damping materials.

• The constant impedance crossover is hardwired with non-inductive capacitors for the tweeter and high-end oil-filled capacitors for the woofer with flat foil inductors used at the most critical places.

• All components are fastened with damping glue and remaining coils are baked to avoid any internal component and filter resonances [more on this below]. Resistors with high power handling capabilities offer lower noise and temperature stable performance, altogether resulting in perfect timing within the crossover and with low noise throughout the entire frequency range.

• Internal cabling is proprietary and feature solid core pure copper wires wrapped around a polypropylene core with polypropylene isolation.

• Custom Scan Speak drivers. The Kevlar® bass/mid-range driver has built-in copper rings in the magnet system and a 19mm long voice coil; Tweeter has a large roll surround and textile dome diaphragm which provides a flat frequency response above 30 KHz. The unique AirCirc magnet system and its rear chamber eliminate any reflections and resonances.

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What  is Qboard Technology?

Qboard Technology is to convert vibration (energy) to heat (energy). Energy can never disappear. Some use spikes, pads, different de-coupling devises. They just transfer vibration-energy to some other places or by reflection smear out the vibration energy.

In all cases it always better to go to the source. If the cabinet vibrates, cure it there. If you have a headache, instead of taking a pain killer try to figure out why you have it (not always possible but try). This is done by sandwich design with viscoelastic glue or viscoelastic/high damping pads that is placed in right amount at right places.

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