Latest acoustic design work:

• Q Acoustics - Q7000 5.1 speaker system serves up a giant-killing performance and is awarded What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision Speaker Package of the Year 2011.
• CML Audio - Etude 1, a 10 litre sealed box stand-mount design that utilises newly developed balanced mode radiator drive units.
• HiFi Critic - The Rhythm King (TRK), a high performance BMR kit speaker for the DIY market, now on sale at Wilmslow Audio.
• Q Acoustics - Q-TV2, an ultra discrete BMR 2.1 TV speaker system.
• Curvi Hifi - Curvi Model 1 Version 2, a single drive unit, full range transmission line loudspeaker.

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Q Acoustics - Q7000 What Hi-Fi? Speaker Package of the Year 2011

Award winning system - What Hi-Fi announces the Q Acoustics Q7000 as their speaker package product of the year 2011 (What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision Awards 2011).

"Q Acoustics serves up a giant-killing performance. Beautifully made and finished, performance hits the bulls-eye. The Q7000 serves up all the nuances - low frequencies start and stop promptly, the midrange information is packed with detail and the entire frequency range is integrated with a casual unfussiness more commonly the preserve of much more expensive packages."

"Timing, and the co-dependence of instruments on each other, is outstanding, with the result that the Q7000 organises and delivers music as naturally as any similarly priced package we’ve heard. Its soundstage is expansive, coherent and rigorously focused, effects are sited with absolute assurance and detail levels are sky-high. The stylish, gutsy Q7000 is an authentic contender for head of the class". [What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision October 2011]

"On first glance this looks like a typical style 5.1 speaker package, but on closer inspection the Q7000 is something much more special. This package features four satellites, all of which are full range speakers with custom designed 7.5cm mid/bass drivers and ring radiator tweeters. Thankfully they include integrated brackets for wall (or ceiling!) mounting, each of which integrates cable management. Along with a dedicated centre speaker, this package includes a powerful active 250W subwoofer that features a 25cm driver firing against a sound board that deflects bass sounds around the room." [Audio Affair] 

CML Audio - Etude 1

"By virtue of recently introduced balanced mode radiator (BMR) full range drive units, together with careful cabinet design and painstaking voicing, it has an exceptionally high audio performance in relation to its retail price. As with CML Audio’s Curvi range, the Etude 1 has been voiced in partnership with Christien Ellis of CE Electroacoustics." [Chris Liauw]

http://www.curvi-hifi.com/CML-Audio/Etude-Hifi/

HIFICRITIC - TRK

"In response to what amounts to something of an invitation and a challenge, aided by industrial designer Miles O'Carroll, CE Electro-Acoustics is working with Martin Colloms at HIFICRITIC on a home constructor loudspeaker called TRK, to be published in their audio review magazine. In particular, because the usual constraints of commerce are absent, we are set free to indulge our design instincts to create something unusual and interesting, while aiming to deliver a high standard and good value to the amateur enthusiast." [Martin Colloms]

Progress can also be followed on the HIFICRITIC forum and in the magazine:

http://www.hificritic.com/scene/news.aspx

Now on sale at Wilmslow Audio:

http://www.wilmslow-audio.co.uk/the-rhythm-king-loudspeaker-kit-1084-p.asp

Q Acoustics - QTV2

The Q-TV2 is a fully active, DSP loaded 2.1 system. This utilises ultra slim BMR drive units, in both the satellites and in an incredibly thin force cancelled subwoofer. The system elegantly and effortlessly clips to the rear of a flat TV:

"As TV screens have got thinner, so unfortunately has the sound they produce in a lot of cases!
Born out of a passion for perfection, the Q-TV2 will transform the way you enjoy your TV. The first truly discrete, 2.1 HD Sound upgrade for flatscreen televisions, the Q-TV2 delivers dynamic, room-filling stereo sound with real bass, yet is completely clutter-free with almost no visual intrusion into your living space.

Unobtrusive and supremely easy to install, it boasts 100 watts of amplification, driving eight advanced technology loudspeakers in stereo enclosures and an integrated vibration-free, ultra-slim subwoofer. For 81-107cm 32-42” televisions."  [John Lewis]

 "Almost invisible but sonically impossible to ignore". [Stuff April 2010]

 "The improvement over your flatscreen's own audio performance is huge. You have to hear Q-TV2" [What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision November 2009]

Curvi HiFi - Curvi Model 1 V2

Curvi Model 1 Version 2 loudspeakers. A stunning example of a full-range, single drive unit transmission line loudspeaker:

“Curvi loudspeakers are a synergistic blend of visually stunning design, skilful use of materials and rigorous electro-acoustic analysis. The single driver approach leads to unrivalled imaging, coherence and timing qualities that elude multi-driver loudspeakers. Clever cabinet design and driver choice, together with an analytical approach to diffraction compensation and transmission line damping ensure very high tonal neutrality and bandwidth that has hitherto been unheard of in single driver loudspeakers.” [Chris Liauw]

http://www.curvi-hifi.com/CURVI/

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