Love the look of these…simple, modern and sustainably made – when the folks at New Zealand’s Q-Speakers decided to go horizontal with their all-wood speaker design they consulted The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ sound engineer, Dave Levine,  “We want to make a gorgeous horizontal speaker system that doesn’t look like every other system, can we?  Like a water drop in a pool, the sound waves reflect off the metal base and thus Q, with Daves help, created what they call “reflective” audio.

Designed by Grier Govorko and hand-crafted in New Zealand from sustainably grown maple, each Q-speaker uses an internal 70W stereo Class D amplifier and a mono 30W  woofer amplifier.  No wasteful use of plastics by Q – the speaker boxes are solid and perched atop a powder coated aluminum base in white or charcoal.  The piano lacquer white speakers are made in toxin free MDF and hand lacquered.  These speakers aren’t cheap and are only available at specialty audio dealers – they’re designed with architectural attention to detail and built to last.  Now if I could only give them a listen.