Q Acoustics is now shipping the eagerly awaited Q Active 400 loudspeakers, joining the Q Active 200 bookshelf model that began shipping in January 2021.
17 February 2021
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The G10 is the Swedish brand’s first speaker to come with Google Assistant onboard, which pits it squarely against the likes of the Sonos One and those with more hi-fi chops than Amazon’s Echo or Google’s Nest Audio.
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Q Acoustics builds mighty-fine loudspeakers, and for its first self-powered offering, the company could have modified any of its existing designs by bolting on an amplifier and calling it a day. What it has wrought instead is a complete high-end audio system that can accommodate nearly any source: analog or digital, wired or wireless, streaming or locally sourced; one that can be incorporated into any of the most common home-audio and smart-home ecosystems.
The Q Active 200 system consists of a pair of self-amplified, wireless two-way bookshelf speakers and the Q Active Control Hub (the company will soon offer the same technology in a tower speaker system, the Q Active 400). The broad range of audio sources the Hub can handle range from a server on your network, to most of the popular streaming services, to a turntable equipped with a moving-magnet cartridge. It can then send that music both to its own speakers