Over the last few years, our feelings towards Q Acoustics have evolved from a pleasant surprise to a deep respect. Despite being a young brand (less than ten years old) it has gone toe-to-toe with long-established heavyweights, and we've lost count of the number of Awards we've given to it.

Refined balance; Surprising sonic agility and composure; Impressive build

Slightly polite sonic balance may be a little too smooth for some

The Concept 40s are Q Acoustics' latest flagship floor-standing speakers and they incorporate the same Gelcore technology found in their smaller Concept 20 stand mount speakers. The Concept 20s picked up an AVforums Highly Recommended award when we reviewed them, in part because of their innovative...

Enjoyable and exciting sound; Refined and transparent performance; Excellent bass extension; Nice build and finish; Flexible positioning; Great price

Nothing at this price

The Q Acoustics Concept 40 is an extremely able loudspeaker, and excellent value even at ￡1,000. It is amazingly well rounded, having practically no obvious weaknesses, and a whole lot of strengths.

Superlative imaging; easy musicality; intricate, detailed sound

Treble is less silky or spacious than some rivals

tried countless speakers over the years these q acoustics win hands down as the best bar none fantastic detail brilliant mids and chunky bass and a warm treble

Fantastic loudspeakers that work better in my difficult room on my Naim 172/250.2 setup than any of the many others that I've tried, including various standmount and small floorstanders from Neat, Kudos, Rega, Focal and Dynaudio ranging from ￡1200 up to about ￡3k.

Last month Q Acoustics released the new concept 40 at the Bristol show, answering important speaker related questions. The concept 40 is A floorstanding speaker priced at ￡1000 a pair. It is similar to the concept 20, however this time it is larger and has some unique features such as [...]

Louder; more bassy in comparison to Concept 20

Very expensive; your average worker may not be able to afford this piece of art

Beautiful, Great sounding speakers