Q Active is an entire high-resolution wireless audio system that delivers thrillingly uncompromised sonic performance from any source of music, while fitting seamlessly and conveniently into your lifestyle.
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Introducing Q Active
Q Active is our series of versatile, high-resolution wireless audio systems contained in a pair of strikingly attractive speakers. Q Active 200 is a standmount design, and Q Active 400 is a floorstander. Both are extraordinarily accomplished in every respect.
Explore the SeriesConvenience meets performance
Designed from the ground up to deliver an uncompromised, versatile high-resolution system that can play music from any source – TV, network music streamer, smartphone, tablet, computer, and even a turntable or CD player.
Explore the SeriesHeritage meets technology
By combining our rich heritage and audio expertise with numerous advanced technologies in a wireless streaming system, the Q Active series represents the ultimate combination of convenience, style and audiophile-quality sound way beyond its price-point.
Explore the SeriesFlexible placement
Q Active is tuned to perform to its maximum potential no matter where in your listening room it’s positioned, remaining remarkably forgiving of less-than-ideal placement. Its driver configuration means it’s one of the most flexible speakers on the market.
Explore the SeriesEvery source, of course
As well as supporting your favourite music streaming service and being Roon Ready, Q Active has a hub that supports physical formats of every type and converts them into a 24bit/96kHz digital file. It streams this high-resolution content to the speakers, so any format you want to hear can be dealt with wirelessly by Q Active. Which means high-end wireless audio no matter the source of your music.
Dynamic widescreen sound
Q Active uses balanced mode radiators to deliver widescreen sound with no compromise in stereo focus, along with a much wider ‘sweet spot’ than traditional drivers can generate. Their peerless midrange performance means they sound natural and articulate, and their super-low crossover point of 150Hz means there’s no audible distortion as they hand over to the subwoofers.
Bass with power and control
Q Active 200 features a rear-firing 114mm subwoofer that delivers fast, deep, organised and endlessly varied low-frequency activity. Q Active 400 features a pair of subwoofers to double down on bass punch and presence. In both systems, the subwoofers fire onto a fixed boundary with a wave guide to ensure that bass is always perfectly controlled no matter where in your room your Q Active system sits.
Active amplification
The six drivers in Q Active 200 and the eight in Q Active 400 are each controlled by a bespoke amplifier - Q Active is a 280-watt system and Q Active 400 has a mighty 440 watts. Each driver receives its own carefully regulated amplification and performs with class-leading accuracy and finesse. Which means Q Active sounds bigger, more powerful and more precise than you might think possible.
Perfectly balanced
‘Dart’ bracing is used in both the Q Active 200 and Q Active 400 systems to provide essential cabinet stiffness and equally useful mechanical stability to the rear-firing subwoofers. In Q Active 400, careful positioning of the pair of subwoofers means standing waves inside the cabinet are, effectively, neutralised to give powerful, linear bass response without colouration.