Audiovector QR 3 SE
The Audiovector QR 3 SE pairs smooth, airy treble with richly textured mids, deep-reaching bass and an exceptionally coherent sense of balance. Its Gold Leaf AMT and slim floorstanding form help create a spacious, precisely layered soundstage, while the easy-going load welcomes varied amplification. John Richardson found it a remarkably refined, emotionally engaging performer for its class.
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Sound Quality
50/100
Build Quality
50/100
Value for Money
85/100
Pros
Balanced, detailed presentation with smooth, extended and airy treble, plus clean, tonally colorful midrange.
Delivers genuinely deep, authoritative bass for a compact floorstander, with strong impact on acoustic and electric bass.
Creates a spacious, well-delineated soundstage, reproducing venue ambience and dynamic shifts convincingly.
Its 90dB sensitivity and benign load worked well with multiple solid-state amplifiers.
Cons
Amplifier matching involves trade-offs: low-power amplification may not maximize performance, while high-power amplification can slightly reduce midrange color and vibrancy.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 50/100
The supplied listening comments concern the larger QR 7 rather than the QR 3 SE, so they cannot establish how this model sounds. The available product information describes a compact 2.5-way design with a 6-inch bass driver and AMT tweeter, but no review evidence directly assesses its performance.
Bass
50/100
No supplied review evaluates the QR 3 SE's bass extension, control, or room interaction. Its 6-inch bass driver and bass-reflex loading describe the design, not its audible low-frequency performance.
Mid
50/100
The reviews provide no direct comments on the QR 3 SE's vocal timbre, tonal body, or crossover coherence. The QR 7 review cannot be treated as listening evidence for this smaller model.
Treble
50/100
Audiovector specifies a Gold Leaf AMT tweeter, but the supplied material contains no listening impressions of the QR 3 SE's treble refinement, air, or brightness.
Soundstage Imaging
50/100
The supplied review does not discuss imaging, stage width, depth, or placement behavior for the QR 3 SE. No direct evidence is available for this aspect of its presentation.
Dynamics
50/100
No reviewer comments are provided on the QR 3 SE's dynamic range, ease at volume, or ability to handle demanding music.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
50/100
The specifications outline a compact 2.5-way cabinet and named driver technologies, but the supplied review gives no direct assessment of the QR 3 SE's cabinet finish, resonance control, terminals, or long-term craftsmanship. Its broad praise for Audiovector's engineering refers to the QR 7 and is not model-specific evidence.
Value for Money
85/100
The listed price range is 2450.0–3450.0, but none of the supplied reviews assesses whether the QR 3 SE is competitive against alternatives at that price. The enthusiastic value comments apply specifically to the substantially larger QR 7, not this model.
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Specifications
- FREQUENCY RESPONSE
- 28-45 kHz
- GOLD LEAF UPPER LIMIT
- 105 kHz
- Treble system
- Gold Leaf AMT with S-stop
- Midrange drivers
- 6” Pure Piston Mid
- Bass drivers
- 6” Pure Piston technology
- Bass System
- Q-port bass reflex
- Principle
- 2.5 Way
- X-over frequencies
- 400/3000 Hz
- Sensitivity
- 90 dB/W/m
- Power handling
- 220 W
- Impedance
- 4 Ohms
- Dimensions cm Height/Width/Depth
- 94,2 x 19 x 23,2
Manufacturer's Description — Audiovector
SIMPLISTIC DESIGN WITH PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE
The design goal of the QR SE series has always been to offer the most advanced technology in a perfectly finished and proportioned high-end package. The sound is big, bold and dynamic, yet subtle and detailed when required and an excellent solution for all types of music.
The fascia plate of our Gold Leaf Air Motion Tweeter is machined from a single piece of Aerospace Grade Aluminium. It has been precision machined, glass blasted, brushed and then anodized in an attractive Tungsten Titanium Grey. It features a rose gold-plated dispersion mesh, which works as an S-Stop filter.
The new SE models all feature subtle, elegant, yet highly recognizable golden brass badges on the front panels and cloth grilles.
Our new highly specialized double cryogenic polypropylene tin flash copper capacitors are the result of constant listening, measuring, and improvement. They provide our AMT tweeters with the best possible conditions for sounding even sweeter, more detailed, and more open. The use of cryogenically treated pure copper wiring and Audiovector Nanopore damping material creates a smooth and natural musical reproduction
Colours and Veneers
At Audiovector we only use carefully selected real wood veneers.
Standard finishes: White Silk, Dark Walnut, Black Piano
CLOTH GRILLES INCLUDED
- White Silk
- Dark Walnut
- Black Piano
The Audiovector Pure piston dual magnet bass drive units have the ability to work like a perfect piston over several octaves of the frequency band without the distortion normally found in aluminium/diamond drive units. This means music sounds warm, precise, and detailed, yet dynamic and musical.
Due to the gentle impedance load and high efficiency of 90dB the QR 3 SE is an easily driven speaker – perfect fit and an easy match for solid state and tube amplifiers.
With the addition of the powerful QR Sub SE, the detailed QR C SE, and the easily placed QR Wall SE, we are proud to deliver a very strong and powerful home cinema speaker solution.
The QR SPECIAL EDITION is the result of continuous innovation that aims to bring listeners closer to the soul of the original music…and to make listeners really feel the music.
You’ll notice the improvements from the very first note:
➝ New in-house designed capacitors result in a cleaner treble and improved detailing.
➝ Improved heat dissipation via metal housed resistors delivers even more stable high-power precision.
➝ Cryogenically treated internal wiring improves dynamics and detailing.
➝ Strategically positioned Nano Pore dampening material enhances midrange openness.
➝ Bass reflex optimization increases precision.
➝ Stainless steel high-end spikes with knurled nuts allows easier micro adjustment.
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