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We are thrilled to share another fantastic, in-depth review of our QBASE Reference<\/a>! 

Roy Gregory, a longstanding audio reviewer in the hifi industry, has appreciated and championed Nordost’s foundational approach to audio. Throughout his article, Roy recognizes the QB10 as the pinnacle of our QRT products, saying that it may be “the single biggest step”, and praises the way we\u2019ve combined and refined our modular approach into a single, meticulously engineered unit. 

In his review<\/a>, Roy highlights the remarkable improvements that the QBASE Reference delivers over the QB8 Mark III, specifically in dynamics, rhythmic coherence, and musical focus. He describes how the QB10 brings new life to your favorite music, offering, “a lower noise floor, which offered a far greater sense of the placement of notes and the spaces between them.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read Roy’s entire QBASE Reference review HERE<\/a>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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