KEF Q300, Q100, Q600c, Q200c, Q800ds User Manual
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Q Series
For decades audiophiles around
the world have revered KEF (Kent
Engineering and Foundry) for
its innovative, high-performance
loudspeakers. The company was
founded in 1961 by Raymond
Cooke OBE (1925-1995),
a former BBC electrical engineer,
widely acknowledged in the audio
industry as a leading authority in
transducer technology.
an unrivalled pedigree
The pioneering inventiveness of KEF
loudspeakers was undeniable. During
the 1960s and early 1970s, KEF’s
reputation was fur ther enhanced by
its outstanding performance. From the
mid 1960s, KEF collaborated with the
BBC in developing new materials for
high-end loudspeakers - the results
being embodied in the classic LS3/5a
monitor which generated worldwide
sales of more than 100,000 systems.
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KEF’s Uni-Q® technology was
introduced in 1988 and since then
KEF has maintained its position at the
forefront of loudspeaker and home
theatre systems.
The core values of KEF: innovation,
quality and performance have ensured
that KEF has one of the best
international reputations for audio
excellence.
The multiple award-winning Q Series has always
exemplified KEF’s conviction that new materials and
technologies can, when applied with intelligence
and imagination, reproduce recordings so perfectly that
they sound indistinguishable from the live event. This is
more true now than ever before. As the latest expression
of this design philosophy, the new range immerses you
in three-dimensional imagery of a richness and clarity that
until now has been the exclusive preserve of speakers
costing many times more.
a class above
The all new Q Series from KEF
represents a quantum leap in terms
of listening pleasure.
At its heart is a brand new Uni-Q
driver array. Derived from the
Concept Blade project, with a new,
larger, high performance vented
tweeter mounted at the acoustic
centre of a new metal cone LF/MF
driver, it combines lavishly extended
bandwidth with effortless dynamics,
imperceptible distor tion and
outstanding acoustic clarity.
These are speakers with the power
to strike a chord in your heart.
Off-axis dispersion is unrivalled, so
everyone in the room enjoys the
same exceptionally realistic sonic
imaging, wherever they sit. And with
30% larger capacity cabinets for even
gutsier bass and minimalist crossovers
assuring deliciously uid transitions,
new Q is both more eloquent and
more emotive than its illustrious
predecessor.
Movies or music, Mahler or Massive
Attack, what you experience is the
captivatingly sweet, accurate and
natural live sound of the original
performance.
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All new
Uni-Q array.
Sweet, spacious and true,
wherever you sit.
The brilliantly innovative engineering of the new
Q Series surrounds you with a spacious sonic
image of astonishing purity.
technology with soul
A groundbreaking new Uni-Q array
that conjures up a uent, spacious and
incredibly realistic 3D sound stage
you can enjoy wherever you sit. A
spectacular new high performance LF
driver that delivers deeper, cleaner
and more accurate bass.
And a ‘total design’ approach, with
obsessive attention to detail and the
pleasures of ownership. These are the
qualities that set the new Q Series
apart.
Thanks to the latest computer
modelling techniques, years of
painstaking development and a dash
of design genius, the new iteration of
the Uni-Q concept packs a
formidable complement of design
innovations. Based on the state-ofthe-art HF driver developed for
The vented tweeter design allows
upper registers to be reproduced
with star tling clarity and smoothes
the transition to midrange
frequencies. The dome assembly is
cleverly braced, pushing the rst
breakup beyond the audible range so
that the sound you hear is awlessly
accurate. And to make sure everyone
in the room enjoys the benet, KEF’s
distinctive ‘tangerine’ waveguide over
the dome maximises Uni-Q’s
exceptionally wide dispersion
characteristics.
Concept Blade, the new Q boasts a
much larger (25mm/1 in. dome)
tweeter for increased sensitivity and
distortion-free power handling. It
plays as loud as it plays true.
At lower frequencies, the superlight
new aluminium cone of the LF/MF
drive unit delivers noticeably faster,
cleaner response. This is enhanced by
KEF’s unique Z-ex surround, which
allows the extreme excursions
needed to deliver a truly visceral
thump while also maintaining a
seamlessly smooth surface to disperse
the high frequencies from the tweeter.
The ensemble is a masterpiece of
modern acoustic engineering. Vocals
suddenly seem much more immediate
– more open and natural. Surrounded
by sound of such clarity, you star t
hearing things you never did before.
Nuances in the way an instrument’s
played. The sound of a distant cricket
in an outside scene. A breath, even.
And best of all, you don’t have to be
in a little ‘sweet spot’ to experience it.
With KEF Uni-Q, you can sit where
you want and not miss a thing. All you
hear is what the artist intended.
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