The PTA staff has known about the development of the Qln Reference 9 for the last year or two, and we’ve been eagerly anticipating its debut in the US. The Qln Reference 9 is the now the flagship for this Swedish company, inspired by the very same Qln Reference that earned our Product of the Year Award in 2022. Here’s the official press release from Mark Sossa:
Gothenburg, Sweden – April 8, 2024 – Qln is proud to announce the release of the highly anticipated Reference 9 loudspeaker. The new, state of the art 3-way designed Qln Reference 9 will make its world debut at AXPONA 2024 in room 1428.
Qln Reference 9
We at Qln prioritize designing speakers that faithfully reproduce the human voice and natural instruments. It is the balance between driver size, cone material and cone weight that determines how a speaker will sound and perform. The integration between all parts in a speaker is to us the most important thing in music reproduction. We don’t want to listen to any aspect of the speaker; we just want to listen to music and come as close to the original recording as we can. The Qln Reference 9 embodies these principles better than any speaker we have ever made.
Key features:
– 3-way bass reflex speaker with 6 dB crossover between midrange and tweeter.
– Cabinet made off 40mm Qboard®, sandwich design with visco elastic damping layer.
– Custom designed 9” coated, ultra-stiff carbon sandwich cone woofer.
– Proprietary 7” Kevlar cone midrange driver designed by Qln featuring hexagonal copper voice coils for increased dynamic performance.
– Custom designed 25mm tweeter featuring a unique air flow magnet system and new acoustic chamber design eliminating any compression, reflections, and resonances.
– Crossover with copper foil capacitor, low loss copper foil coils and non-inductive high-power resistors.
– Solid core internal cable with acoustic isolation material.
– Adjustable de-coupling footers made of a non-resonant polymer material.
Qln Reference 9 Specifications:
• Sensitivity: 91 dB SPL 2,83V 1m, 100-10kHz
• Low frequency performance: -3dB 25Hz
• Impedance: 4 ohms
• Amplifier requirements: 50-300 Watt RMS
• Cabinet: 40mm Qboard® design
• Terminal: WBT Single wire
• Dimensions (HxWxD): 1050x300x650mm
• Weight: 65,0 kg each
• Standard finish: Walnut Matte, Rose Piano
For more information on the Qln Reference 9, please visit www.qln.se or contact mark@qln.se
I have previously owned the QLN Prestige 3 and Prestige 5 and currently own the Signature. I have a good feeling the Reference 9 in Rose Piano is going to be my next speaker 🙂 Can’t wait to see it and hear it live at AXPONA in just a few days!