Audiovector QR Special Edition Loudspeakers – Quick Look
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Danish HiFi Brand Audiovector has launched its new Audiovector QR Special Edition Loudspeakers, replacing the original seven models in the current QR range and giving the new model numbers the QR Series SE designation. Available standard finishes include; White Silk, Dark Walnut and Black Piano, all with included matching grill cloths. All models are still passive except the QR sub that employs a 350watt power amplifier.
Each of the new SE models sports a gold badge with the inscription SPECIAL EDITION.
Improvements to drivers, crossovers and cabinets are common to all models. Audiovector designs all their own drivers in conjunction with their associated crossovers, with the mid-range and bass drivers acting as pure piston drivers and incorporating; powerful magnets, low-hysteresis coil technology, a 3-layer damped sandwich membrane cone using aluminum skins, and turbulence-suppressing baskets. These new drivers are said to act like a “perfect piston” over their working frequency range allowing the use of “amplifier friendly filters”.
The Audiovector QR Special Edition series employs Air Motion Transformer (AMT) tweeters. These HF drivers use a very lightweight gold leaf mylar-membrane that resembles harmonica bellows allowing it to support frequencies exceeding 40,000 Hz with optimal dispersion. It is complemented by a gold-plated front grid that enhances dispersion and integration with the midrange driver while reducing unwanted sibilants. While the tweeter now benefits from Audiovector’s new “highly specialized double cryogenic polypropylene tin flash copper capacitors” that the company claims provides; “the best conditions for sounding even sweeter, more detailed, and more open”.
Providing optimal crossover performance between units, the company has reduced crossover losses and heat build up, enhanced the bass/mid response frequency characteristics and uses proprietary double cryogenically treated capacitors and high precision components (<0.8%), combined with the minimum number of components to achieve a high precision linear phase roll-off profile for all drivers. Audiovector also claims that the cryogenically treated internal wiring helps improve dynamics and detailing.
Housing all this special edition technology, the SE cabinets are made from high-density hardwood HDF and are extensively braced to provide high strength and high internal loss in order to achieve low resonances. NanoPore dampening materials are used to enhance midrange openness, while the higher internal damping of the SE’s Q-port and a realigned bass reflex system is claimed to result in more precise, deep and detailed bass performance.
Finally, stainless steel spikes with knurled nuts allow for simple adjustment of floor standing models.
Specifications:
Availability:
- US/Europe – now
- UK – January 2024
MSRP (US/EU/UK):
It is understood that these are introductory prices until January, after which they will rise by 3%.
- QR 7 SE – $6,500/€5,700/£5,250
- QR 5 SE – $4,650/€4,100/£3,750
- QR 3 SE – $3,000/€2,600/£2,350
- QR 1 SE – $1,7225/€1,500/£1,350
- QR C SE (each) – $1,300, €1,150, £1,050
- QR Sub SE (each) – $TBA/€1,600/£1,450
- QR Wall SE – $1,725/€1,500/£TBA
For more information visit the Audiovector web site.
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