Q Acoustics 5020 Standmount Speakers - Satin Black

5020
Innovative design, uncompromised engineering and extraordinary performance from a standmount loudspeaker that dominates your space with its sound, not with its size.
Experience all the scale and power of your favourite music without letting your loudspeaker dominate your room. The 5020 standmount speaker by Q Acoustics will put your right in the heart of the music without putting itself at the heart of your space - its understated looks are at odds with the assertive and convincing nature of its sound. A pair of 5020 speakers + a pair of speaker stands = endless audio gratification.

5000 Series: Ahead Of The Curve
The new 5000 series from Q Acoustics is a range of stereo and home cinema loudspeakers that will recalibrate your perceptions of how a speaker can look and sound. By embodying genuine and significant advancement in driver design, the game changing C3 Continuous Curved Cone™ mid/bass driver elevates the 5000 series beyond any nominal rival. By incorporating the innovative cabinet technology first deployed in the company’s flagship Concept range, the 5000 series is as uncompromised on the inside as it is sophisticated and contemporary on the outside.
Positioned between the latest highly acclaimed Concept models and the serial award-winning 3000i range, the 5000 series consists of the 5010 bookshelf speaker, 5020 standmount, 5040 floorstander, 5050 large floorstander and 5090 centre channel. Whether used in stereo or home cinema applications, the new 5000 series sets entirely new standards.
The new 5000 series of stereo and home cinema speakers from Q Acoustics set entirely new standards of appearance and performance. By taking the class-leading cabinet construction technologies that help make the company’s acclaimed Concept range of loudspeakers so successful, and by introducing a wholly new, technologically innovative design in the hugely significant C3 Continuous Curved Cone™ mid/bass driver, Q Acoustics liberates flagship loudspeaker performance from an affordable and attainable range of loudspeakers.
The five-strong range features a model suitable for every audio application and every size and shape of room. Each is equally adept as a stereo pair or as part of a home cinema multi-channel system. And each model looks contemporary and minimalist in design, bringing fresh sophistication to the space in which it lives.

Sophisticated And Contemporary Design
The reductive nature of the C3 Continuous Curved Cone’s™ appearance is also reflected in the 5000 series minimalist design, with its sophisticated but contemporary lines leaning towards the elegant form of the latest Concept speaker series.
The baffle fronts are laminated with a layer of butyl rubber and black acrylic trim, not only to provide a damping layer to suppress vibration occurring in the baffle, but to offer an eye-catching counterpoint to the cosmetically clean front presentation uninterrupted by any fixings.
All speaker models arrive in a choice of four modern but classic finishes that complement any living space, including the introduction of a new stylish lighter wood veneer. High-quality finishes include Satin Black, Satin White, Santos Rosewood and Holme Oak.
The 5040 and 5050 floorstanding models come with stylish solid aluminium stabilisers that feature top adjustable spikes for easier levelling adjustment, while durable low-profile speaker terminals provide a tidy appearance, enabling the speaker to be placed closer to the back wall if required.

C3 Continuous Curved Cone™
A genuine advancement in elements of mid/bass driver design, the C3 Continuous Curved Cone™ profile is the result of extensive research and expert engineering to combine the bass performance benefits of a traditional straight conic cone with the high/mid-range frequency control of a flared cone.
By creating a single, smooth, continuous curve profile, the advantages are manifold. Firstly, its excellent dispersion, alongside its well-controlled frequency response, enables smoother integration with the tweeter. Deep bass dynamics are also superior, with this and tighter, damped low-end sound allowing more flexibility in placement of speakers near the wall boundaries of the listening room. Harmonic distortion is also reduced, ensuring the 5000 series delivers a sonic performance and wide soundstage that belies its ranking. The C3 Continuous Curved Cone™ profile has successfully addressed shortcomings in one of the basic geometrical elements of drive unit design to deliver the best characteristics of both straight and flared cones.

Mid/bass driver design
At the heart of the ground-up mid/bass driver design is the C3 Continuous Curved Cone™. The cone’s geometry requires good motor strength for optimal performance. Substantial magnets are coupled to large voice coils to increase motor strength - the result is a 50% increase in power handling and control over a comparable driver with 25.4 mm voice coil. The result is an improvement in the dynamic range of the speaker, especially in the bass region.

High-frequency driver design
Based on the tweeter design principle found in the newest Concept series, the high frequency driver unit is hermetically sealed and mechanically isolated (floating) from the baffle to prevent internal pressure modulations from within the cabinet and adjacent mid/bass driver. The inner chamber is also carefully vented for lower distortion, with a lower crossover point for seamless integration through the crossover region.

P2P™ (Point to Point™) bracing
To keep the cabinet as rigid as possible, P2P™ (Point to Point™) internal bracing is employed. First introduced in the Concept 500, reinforcement is fitted to interior areas of the cabinet susceptible to low-end frequency reverberations.
Using Finite Element Analysis to examine the performance of the cabinet down to a microscopic level, P2P™ bracing has been applied to the speaker cabinet.
Implementing this state-of-the-art technology, Q Acoustics have been able to identify and apply bracing to only the precise points of the cabinet that require additional support and unwanted energy is dissipated rather than transferred throughout the cabinet.

HPE™ (Helmholtz Pressure Equalizer™)
Tall loudspeaker enclosures are vulnerable to increased internal pressure caused by standing waves.
These generate unwanted resonances that colour the sound. Originally developed for the top-of-the-range Concept 500 floorstanding speaker, HPE™ (Helmholtz Pressure Equalizer™) tube technology is designed to convert this pressure into velocity and reduce the overall pressure gradient within the speaker enclosure.
Tubes inside the tall cabinet eliminate these performance-effecting vibrations to maintain a transparent soundstage.

Bass Unit: 1 x 125 mm
Treble Unit: 1 x 25 mm
Frequency Response: 53 Hz - 30 kHz (- 6 dB)
Impedance: 6 Ω (Nominal); 3.3 Ω (Minimum)
Sensitivity: 87.9 dB/w/m (2.83 V @ 1 kHz)
Recommended Amplifier Power: 25 - 100 W
Crossover Frequency: 2.5 kHz
Effective Volume: 6.8 L
Dimensions: 284 (H) x 180 (W) x 293 (D) mm
Weight: 7.0 kg (each)

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