Kharma Exquisite Midi 3.0
The Kharma Exquisite Midi 3.0 brings deep, natural soundstage depth and timbral realism to a lavish four-way floorstander. TAS Staff highlights its emotionally absorbing refinement, tonal structure and richly textured musical presence, while the multilayer HPL cabinet is engineered to suppress vibration and diffraction. It is an exceptional statement speaker for listeners who prize spatial immersion and nuanced tone.
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Sound Quality
89/100
Build Quality
94/100
Value for Money
85/100
Pros
Exceptionally deep, natural soundstage with immersive spatial realism.
Refined tonal structure, timbre, and texture create a highly emotionally engaging musical presentation.
Ambitious multilayer HPL cabinet construction is designed to minimize mechanical vibration, diffraction, and phase anomalies.
Cons
Its $115,000 price places it firmly in the ultra-high-end category.
Available listening coverage provides limited direct evidence on bass behavior and large-scale dynamic impact.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 89/100
The available review describes an exceptionally refined, emotionally involving presentation, with particular praise for tonal structure, timbre, texture, and a remarkably natural sense of space. Low-frequency performance and outright high-level drive receive little direct listening commentary, so the strongest evidence concerns its midband realism, treble refinement, and immersive staging.
Bass
80/100
The review provides no direct assessment of bass extension, weight, control, or texture. Its dual 8-inch woofer complement suggests substantial capability, but reviewers do not describe how the speaker performs in the low frequencies.
Mid
96/100
Matthew Clott praised the speaker's subtlety, refinement, tonal structure, timbre, and texture, finding the music itself wonderfully present. This points to an unusually convincing and richly resolved midrange, with a strong capacity to communicate instrumental and vocal character.
Treble
94/100
The review repeatedly emphasizes refinement, subtlety, and textural nuance rather than aggression or edge. While there is no isolated discussion of the diamond tweeter's top-octave extension, the reported presentation suggests a highly polished and natural treble character.
Soundstage Imaging
97/100
Clott described the presentation as one of the deepest and most natural soundstages he had ever heard. That is unusually strong praise for the speaker's ability to create depth, spatial realism, and an enveloping musical perspective.
Dynamics
82/100
The review says little directly about transient attack, large-scale slam, or composure at very high volumes. Its emotional engagement and sense of musical presence are encouraging, but there is not enough listening evidence to make stronger claims about dynamic authority.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
94/100
The cabinet uses CNC-machined, multilayer high-pressure laminate plates designed to damp mechanical vibration to almost zero while tightly controlling internal geometry. The review calls the enclosure sumptuous and highlights its attention to diffraction and phase behavior, indicating unusually ambitious cabinet execution.
Value for Money
85/100
At $115,000, the Exquisite Midi 3.0-S is firmly positioned among ultra-high-end loudspeakers. The review conveys exceptional admiration for its sound and enclosure engineering, but it does not directly compare its value with competing speakers at this price.
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Specifications
- Type
- EXQ-MD-3.0
- System
- 4-way
- RMS power
- 250 Watt
- Program power
- 400 Watt
- Frequency range
- 23 Hz - 90 kHz
- Nominal impedance
- 4 Ohm
- Efficiency 2.83V/1m
- 90 dB
- Maximum SPL
- 113 dB
- High-frequency
- 1x 1" Diamond concave tweeter
- Mid-frequency
- 1x 7" Kharma Omega-7 driver
- Low-frequency
- 2x 8" Nomex Kevlar driver
- Height
- 1030 mm / 40.60 inch
- Width
- 390 mm / 15.35 inch
- Depth
- 645 mm / 25.47 inch
Manufacturer's Description — Kharma
Introduction
Creating a Kharma Exquisite loudspeaker is a long process. Looking for the perfect shape, materials and sound for that sense of graceful elegance you would expect from a handcrafted loudspeaker. The Kharma Exquisite Midi is the smallest speaker from the Exquisite Collection but can easily fill a room with it’s musical performance. A timeless design and technological details beyond imagination are the fundaments of the Exquisite Midi, resulting in a loudspeaker that is worldwide known and loved.
New stand design
Details create the bigger picture..
We have given many thought to the details of this ‘new’ model. Taking everything into account and making no compromise. When looking at a loudspeaker, we see drivers, tweeters, crossovers, cabling but another important aspect is the place where the loudspeakers make contact with the surface – the stand.
We’ve done a lot of research to find a way to minimize the contact surface in order to improve the clarity in the music representation. On this picture you see the details of the stand. However, the most important part is on the inside. Four Tungsten balls 8mm that keep the loudspeaker at a minimum contact surface.
Diamond concave tweeter
Without a doubt the quality is guaranteed by using a Diamond tweeter as a standard in the Exquisite Collection. These high-frequency drivers are true technological wonders. The tweeters have a diamond cone which have been realised by the so called CVD process. With this process incredible stiffness is reached with a minimum of thickness of only 50 μm. Notice a human hair is in the range of 17 to 180 μm. The cone is the most essential part of the tweeter and because this cone is made of Diamond the tweeter is capable to create impressively pure high frequencies.
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- Ajasom — online and in-store — Amadora, Lisboa, Portugal (website)
- Alen Audio — in-store — Extramurs, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain (website)
- Audio Gallery — online and in-store — Las Rozas de Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain (website)
- Bliss Acoustics — in-store — Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (website)
- Contrado Audio — online and in-store — Nieuwleusen, Overijssel, Netherlands (website)
- Elite Audio Systems — in-store — San Francisco, California, United States (website)
- Metafi AUdio — in-store — Tualatin, Oregon, United States (website)
- Musical Artisans — in-store — Skokie, Illinois, United States (website)
- Presence Audio — in-store — Paris, Île-de-France, France (website)
- SOUND & COLORS/GT AUDIO — in-store — Paris, Île-de-France, France (website)
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