Introducing the QM60
| – My ambition has never been to make loudspeakers that “creates sound” for people chasing spectacular experiences. My ambition has only been to recreate the music caught on the recordings. I’m driven by my own curiosity towards these originals. I have found however, that in the long run, no coloring can compete with creating an opening to the true happening of the past, even in the aspect of being spectacular. It simply does not get more spectacular than opening up an uncolored window to the world of the recording. Ingvar Öhman, Head of R&D |
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The QM60 was originally designed as a laboratory instrument for a project researching the properties of human hearing. Reproducing the acoustic signals used for this project required a neutral wide-band speaker with accurate reproduction of timbre, taking into account and compensating for the inherent colourations in the stereo system itself, generated in the process of phantom projection. It also required a very low distortion as well as a capability to reproduce wave shapes with a very high accuracy. Although this speaker may seem over qualified for hifi-use, the very same properties that enables them to reproduce artificial test signals in the four domains timbre, dynamic, time and space, are to a high degree beneficial when reproducing signals as complex as music. The difficulties in reproducing music should never be underestimated. The nuances are not no be ignored no matter how small and delicate they are. |
| The QM60 tweeter is a marvel in driver design. Its intrinsic high efficiency together with a crossover design that takes into account not only the shaping of the frequency response including HO-function, but also the optimization of the impedance feeding the driver, minimizes the power compression as well as the distortion. On top of that, the speaker can handle many times the input power in the high frequency range, than speakers with normal 1” tweeters can. |
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