The Q Acoustics Concept 300 is a revolutionary loudspeaker. Not because of the cabinet or the drivers or even the tripod stand, although that is radical from a design perspective. Its a game changer because this is the first loudspeaker that incorporates a damped spring isolation system in the world ever. For a decade or more I have been banging on about the benefits of isolating loudspeakers from the floor and thus everything else in the system, including the other loudspeaker, and I have been doing this with Townshend Seismic Podiums which sit underneath the speaker or stand.
It has taken a long time to get to the point where anyone has built a loudspeaker with isolation onboard, the long term dominance of the idea that nailing a speaker (or stand) to the floor with spikes has ensured that few have dared consider that there might be a better way. But I suspect that Townshends Seismic bases have slowly been making it clear that there is an alternative, the fact that established brands like PMC use those products in demonstrations being just one indication of the change in attitudes. Former Q Acoustics public relations man Steve Harris is of the opinion that the damped spring isolation approach only works well when a loudspeaker is developed with that type of support system as part of the design. An idea he presumably posited during his tenure and which may or may not have influenced the Concept 300, but either way we have ended up with a rather good loudspeaker as a result.