Audiovector QR 5 Floorstanding Speakers - Handmade in Denmark & Like New

by anandfm Fri Jun 28, 2024 11:31 pm

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Audiovector QR 5 Floorstanding Speakers - Handmade in Denmark & Like New

Just a few months old and a complete set of boxes, papers, accessories, etc. Underutilized thus planning to let go of this pair soon.

Brand new condition and still inside the boxes.

The QR 5 is a superb loudspeaker proposition. It's a true three-way design with a sense of energy and detail retrieval that's reminiscent of the best electrostatics, but with added warmth, depth and scale across its midrange and bass frequencies, which makes it an outstanding package.

Despite being in the loudspeaker game since 1979, it’s only in the last decade or so that Audiovector has become more established as one of the main Scandi speaker players with UK audiences.

The QR 5 model is the penultimate model in the Q-Series line, being a three-way speaker with twin 6″ bass drivers, a 6″ midrange driver and a distinctive tweeter.

And what makes the latter so distinctive also immediately highlights that you’re in Audiovector territory, being a ribbon type tweeter which the brand is famous for. To be more precise, it’s Audiovector’s own Air Motion Transformer (AMT) with an aerospace grade aluminium fascia plate framing a rose gold plated dispersion mesh. This mesh is specifically designed to act as an ‘S-Stop’ filter, inspired by pop filters from the professional recording industry, which control sibilants and make for a sweeter sound.

At a glance you’d be forgiven for thinking the mid and bass drivers are identical, but close inspection reveals differing driver surrounds, hinting at what lies inside with differing voice coils and weight. Inside the QR 5’s cabinet, the midrange unit works within its own sealed asymmetric enclosure and handles frequencies above 400Hz before handing over to the tweeter at 3kHz.

Completing the speaker’s audio output is a discrete slot shaped bass port at the front of the speaker’s underside, which fires against a fixed plinth, with an 18mm air gap. This makes the speaker less sensitive to room and rear wall placement, while ensuring a more consistent performance with a variety of floor surfaces.

Also included is a set of nicely coned and not floor-wreakingly sharp spikes to raise the speaker’s plinth from your floor. And because the 25mm thick plinth is a little wider and deeper than the speaker cabinet’s footprint, it also makes the speaker more stable.

THE 3 WAY FLOORSTANDER

The design goal of the QR 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 QR 5 floor standing loudspeaker fits well into any home environment, regardless of style. The QR5 is the largest speaker in the QR series and consequently the best performer. The perfectly detailed and sweet treble promises endless hours of musical enjoyment without fatigue. The powerful and dynamic bass will allow any recording to sound exciting and realistic. The QR 5 is a 3-way loudspeaker design with Q-port downward firing bass reflex system and matches its smaller siblings perfectly.

Specifications:

· The Audiovector QR 5 is a 3-way loudspeaker with Q-port down firing bass reflex system and Gold Leaf AMT 2 tweeter with S-stop filter

· Specifications:

· Construction type: Basrefleks - Q-port i bunden

· Impedance: 4 - 8 Ohm

· Crossover: 400 / 3000 Hz

· Frequency response: 25 - 45.000 Hz

· Rated power, peak: 280 Watt

· Sensitivity: 91 dB

· Tweeter: Gold Leaf AMT 2 med S-stop

· Bas/midrange driver: 1 x 6" Pure Piston

· Bas driver: 2 x 6" Pure Piston

· Connection type: Skrueterminaler

· Dimensions, product (LxWxH): 27 x 21 x 105,7 cm.

· Net weight: 25,7 kg.

Highly reviewed series of Audiovector speakers, please check the reviews below.

https://audiograde.uk/review/audiovector-qr5-loudspeaker-review/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY1kNi7h_QA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqvU99X_Xo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xPasZwP80Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW8cQV2FHUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXPNHDZxEP8

With the volume cranked up, I can also hear the tweeters’ S-Stop mesh in action. This track is laced with high frequencies and lyrics that would push many a loudspeaker into harsh, sibilant territory, and the way that the QR 5s perform is a testament to their tech. For example when Adam Granduciel hisses “place” at around six minutes in, you experience every nuance and the emotion in full, but it’s not a challenging listen due to how these speakers master the detail without harshness.

At the other end of the sonic spectrum, the Audiovector’s bring equal levels of control and finesse to their bass delivery. On Counting Crow’s Ghost Train from a 24-bit/96kHz Master of their 1993 debut album August And Everything After each bass guitar note is projected with just the right amount of impact, punch and sustain to ensure there’s plenty of power underpinning the song but without any sense of it sounding bloated, as it can on lesser loudspeakers.

Copenhagen-based Audiovector isn’t the kind of speaker maker you can pigeon-hole. Not as large as more familiar Danish brands in the UK such as DALI and Dynaudio, it has a core product range that stretches all the way from the £1,025 QR1 entry-level standmount (HFC 418) to the uber-high-end R11 Arreté, which will set you back in the region of £200,000.

And yet you could argue that Audiovector is also the most pragmatic speaker maker on the planet. One tier down from the R11 and R8, the lower-numbered R lineup, while still ostensibly high end, certainly flies closer to the real world and, uniquely, allows purchasers to buy-in with a base model and, rather than chop it in for a more expensive one when the upgrading itch strikes further down the line, send it back to the factory for an incremental upgrade with better drivers, superior crossover and even an up-rated cabinet.

Effectively the same Gold Leaf Air Motion Tweeter (AMT) used in the R11 flagship, it really is a thing of beauty, replete with compression-reducing double rear chamber and exposed gold mesh ‘S-Stop Filter’ to smooth sibilance, rather like the filters placed in front of microphones for singers in the studio.

The unit sits in a housing that’s made from a single piece of aerospace-grade aluminium which has been precision machined, glass blasted and brushed, and then anodised with a tungsten/titanium finish to have a reassuringly up-market sheen that exactly matches the aluminium trims of the remaining three drivers. The combined effect is extremely crisp and smart.

Less use and kept for 2nd HiFi room setup in the near future but had to let go due to some reasons.

The market price is still around RM23k++ now, so letting go cheaper around RM18k (still negotiable for serious buyers).

Condition: 9/10 Like new and complete set inside box, just a few months old with shop warranty still available for 3 years.

Prefer face to face deal if possible, testing and audition preferred once the sales price is confirmed.

Can deliver for free by hand around Penang, Ipoh, Johor, KL or Kedah areas.

Thank you and feel free to contact me for any questions ya.

Please contact me at O12-588 527O (WhatsApp) for more details & photos.

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