I took advantage of the $229 sale on the Q100's. They are on 24" steel stands from a company called Vega AV that I think primarily sells on Amazon and Ebay. I filled the stands with play sand that I had dried in the oven for a while. The Q100s are being helped out on the low end with a Pioneer Andrew Jones SW-8 powered subwoofer.
I'm amazed at how good such a petite speaker can sound. Compared to the Pioneer Andrew Jones tower speakers they replaced, acoustic instruments and percussion sounds more real, vocals sound richer. Sibilance is much improved. I thought the Pioneer speakers were pretty decent for the small money (they certainly sounded more natural than the boxy sounding BOTL Polk and Klipsh speakers that I compared them to at the big box consumer electronics store) but the KEF Q100s are on another level. I think I paid the same amount for both (without factoring in the cost of the speaker stands). One quirk of the KEF Q100s though is that they don't sound very good until they are pushed a little bit. For me, these are Friday night sound level speakers all week long, which is not a problem. I suspect that they'd be less than ideal for near-field monitoring at a computer desk.
KEF direct is still selling Q100's, even at the current $299 price they are a good deal.