Audiovector QR5

The newest addition to Audiovector’s entry-level range, this great Dane joins a hugely competitive and talented sector

Danish brand Audiovector isn’t the kind of speaker maker you can pigeonhole. Not as large as DALI or 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 £200k R11 Arreté.

The QR range was designed by Audiovector CEO Mads Kilfoth. He explains his thinking: “I wanted a speaker family with build quality and value for money rarely seen at the price point.” And it’s a tweeter practically unseen at the price that gives the clue to the QR5’s ambition. 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 made from a single piece of aerospacegrade 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.