BSG Technologies qøl Signal Completion Stage

Doug Blackburn has posted a review of the BSG Technologies qøl Signal Completion Stage ($3995) at SoundStage! Hi-Fi. His conclusions:

“BSG’s qøl processing is not available from any other component in your system. If you upgrade from a $1000 amp to a $20,000 amp, you still won’t get the expanded and enhanced sound you get from the qøl. If you want this sound, there’s only one place to get it, and that’s from the qøl Signal Completion Stage. I would probably be wildly enthusiastic about the qøl processor if it were a much simpler, $1000 product without a thick aluminum faceplate, a remote control, and multiple inputs and outputs. At $3995, it had damn well better be able to deliver something special you can’t get elsewhere, and it does. But I can’t rave about it when it costs $3995.

That said, what the qøl does is very difficult to give up once you’ve heard it. I’ve never heard anything that does what the qøl Signal Completion Stage does at any price. Some will consider $3995 a bargain — they might upgrade from $15,000 speakers to $50,000 speakers and still not hear the things the qøl does. But for many, the price of admission is high enough to put the qøl out of reach. That’s a shame, and something that might change in the future. BSG Technologies reps told me that they’d like to license the qøl technology to other manufacturers to incorporate in preamps, or even in multichannel audio products. Bring it on! qøl processing is so good that it deserves to be in everyone’s system.”

You can read the full review here.