Q Active 200 £899 Bookshelf Satellite Stereo Pair
Key Features
- High fidelity sound with true wireless connectivity from multiple streaming services: Apple AirPlay 2, Roon, Spotify and plenty more gives access to a planet’s-worth of music.
- Integrate your TV, turntable, games console and more into your wireless, music-streaming system.
- Voice control – works with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa (available soon) or Apple Siri for easy voice control
Versatile. Sound. Design
Versatile
Q Acoustics has designed the Q Active range from the ground up, with the express intent of delivering an uncompromised, versatile high-resolution system that can play music from any source – TV, network music streamer, smartphone, laptop, and even a turntable.
A compact central Control Hub configured either for Google “Chromecast built-in” or Amazon “Works with Alexa” (coming soon) is supplied with each pair of speakers, which allows users to connect to a variety of wired and wireless sources. The Hub can be connected to your home network using ethernet or wi-fi.
Sound
The Q Active range is a true active design, with class D amplification eliminating the need for a bulky external amp or receiver. Q Active 200 speakers feature twin Balanced Mode Radiator (BMR) drive units in an offset configuration that deliver a widescreen sound dispersal and a huge sweet spot: so no matter where you’re sitting in the room, you’ll hear the same rich, detailed and expressive sound from the Q Active speakers.
Design
Meticulous attention to detail has produced a compact, high-performance system that makes a distinctive visual statement – but every element of Q Active has been engineered to deliver the best performance possible.
As well as the panoramic, widescreen sound delivered by the BMR arrangement and the deep, controlled bass served up by the carefully specified and positioned subwoofers, Q Acoustics has paid painstaking attention to the way the Q Active 200 cabinet contributes to the system’s outstanding sonic performance.
‘Dart’ bracing is in the Q Active 200 cabinet to provide essential stiffness to the cabinet and equally helpful mechanical stability to the rear-firing subwoofer units.
Technical Specifications:
Bookshelf Speaker: Q Active 200 Arctic White (x2)
Acoustics
Enclosure type Reflex (ported)
Full range driver 2 x BMR 58mm (2.25in)
Subwoofer (high excursion) 1 x 114mm (4.5in)
Crossover frequency 150Hz
System frequency response (free boundary) 46Hz to 20kHz (-6dB)
Power (per speaker)
Continuous power 100W
Peak power 280W
Power requirement
Voltage range 100 – 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz
Weight and dimensions
Un-boxed weight (per speaker) 7.5kg
Dimensions (per speaker) H x W x D 284 x 170 x 290mm (11.2 x 6.7 x 11.4in)
Dimensions on stand H x W x D 922 x 286 x 338mm (36.3 x 11.3 x 13.3in)
Wireless connectivity
Hi-Res Wireless Link frequency 5.8GHz
Audio playback
Sample frequency 96kHz
Bit depth 24bits
Max Source Resolution 32bit/192kHz
Hub Specifications
Power requirement
Voltage range 100 – 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz
Weight and dimensions
Un-boxed weight (per speaker) 0.5kg
Dimensions (per speaker) H x W x D 40 x 180 x 112mm (1.6 x 7.1 x 4.4in)
Wireless connectivity
Bluetooth v4.2 Low Energy
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n and 802.11ac compliant
Hi-Res Wireless Link frequency 5.8GHz
Remote control 2.4GHz
Audio playback
Codec formats AAC , WAV, FLAC, MP3, Vorbis, WMA & ALAC
Sample frequency 8 – 192kHz (depending on codec)
Bit depth 8 – 24bits (depending on codec)
Wired connectivity
Digital optical 96kHz/24bit Toslink
Digital HDMI 96kHz/16bit ARC (2 channel)
Analogue (set to line level) 300mV/18kΩ
Analogue (set to phono MM) 2.6mV/47kΩ (RIAA Equalised)
Subwoofer output 1.20V (0-300Hz)