Tonally, the 3030i speakers offered a superb tonal balance. Both the upper and lower frequency were not only in sync and matched perfectly but they flowed without dominating one another right throughout the song.

The Q 3020i is a bookshelf or stand mount speaker from Q Acoustics core loudspeaker offering, designed to deliver beautiful sound into your home, using the latest technological enhancements applied to the full 3000i series. Valve amps... totally different kettle of fish to normal amps.. you need high sensitive speakers .. ideally 8ohm and anything above 90db is needed... 95+ is perfect. And, rather like the substantially pricier B&W 607, Q Acoustics decoupled both the 22mm tweeter and the 125mm mid-bass driver from the speaker cabinet with an absorptive surround between the drivers and cabinet. This impedes vibrations from the mid-bass driver which might otherwise upset the tweeter’s delicate high-frequency tones – which bodes well for sound quality. Q Acoustics 3020i review: Sound quality Large Appliances - (Washing Machines, Dishwashers, Fridge Freezers etc). Free Local Delivery Service (Cumbria, SW Scotland and NE England*) 2-3 working days. The 20mm tweeter is decoupled from the baffle using a silicone suspension system, to keep it isolated from the woofer’s vibrations. The 12.5cm woofer’s has a new low-lag rubber surround, which promises accuracy in cone movement.And it’s this balance that makes the 3020i incredibly hard to wrongfoot. It doesn’t matter what you feed them with – noise, opera, electronica, jazz, classical – everything sounds good. Even bad recordings are entirely listenable. All this translates into speakers that belies their budget pricing. As usual, I write most of my listening notes before performing measurements to compare what I hear to the data. CA1, CA2, CA3, CA4, CA5, CA6, CA7, CA8, CA9, CA10, CA11, CA12, CA13, CA14, CA15, CA16, CA17, CA18, CA19, CA20, CA21, CA22, CA23, CA24, CA25, CA26, CA27, CA28. The 3010is may not be the most sonically versatile standmounters around at this price point, but they’re certainly among the most engaging.

From the marketing methods, we can see that Q-Acoustics are very different from other speaker brands. Q Acoustics is not composed of romantic music enthusiasts or musicians but was founded by pure engineers and businessmen, who are the most realistic representatives. There is no wordy, no story, no magic. This feature can be seen clearly in the company’s self-introduction. For the money, this is about as complete and rounded a musical performance you can get. If you’re looking for a serious set of speakers with a limited budget, look no further. The heart of any home cinema system, the Q 3090Ci has been developed to compliment the 3000i series perfectly, bringing crisp and clear dialogue and onscreen sound to life, using the latest technological enhancements applied to the full 3000i series. The new 3090i - part of the 3000i Series is an evolution of the 3090, which has undergone a number of innovative improvements intended to bring about significant enhancements in both sonic performance and aesthetics from the already established and highly awarded range. Q3060S Slimline Subwoofer The overriding aesthetic of the 3000-series speakers hasn’t changed much. The Q Acoustics 3000i range retains the blend of straight and rounded edges, giving the speakers a contemporary feel. I instantly recognised the familiar Q Acoustics sound: a rich, warm character with a surprising level of dynamism and agility considering the weighty delivery. I wasn’t disappointed.The Q 3020i builds on the success of its multi award winning predecessor. Boasting 125mm (5 in) and 22mm (0.9 in) precision drivers, the Q 3020i speakers deliver deep bass and room-filling sound. The Q 3020i maintain the same acoustically optimal front profile but have been made slightly taller and deeper giving an overall cabinet size increase of 25%. This increased internal volume has enabled the Q 3020i to gain an extended low frequency response from the ported design so that more-than-ever the smaller enclosures in the range belie their diminutive stature with an impressively large-scale sound. KEF, Dali, Triangle, Mission, and B&W are not speakers I would consider "warm and relaxed". Older Wharfedale speakers and the current PSB Alpha range are warm, in my opinion. The new 12 series by Wharfedale are a bit of departure from their typical "house sound". Personally, Q Acoustics would be my choice for warm and relaxed. The audio engineers at Q Acoustics have already proved themselves in the bookshelf speaker arena. The smaller 3010i’s wowed us last year and the 3020i take everything that made them great and turn it up to 11 – except for the price. If you’re looking for great sound on the cheap, you’re in the right place. We reserve the right to refuse installation should our engineers think that the existing electrical or plumbing points are unsafe and in need of maintenance or if they are unable to install to existing furniture. The overall design of the Q-Acoustics 3020i speaker is very reasonable. When you try to reduce the cabinet resonance, you can make it louder. When the tweeter is not affected by the vibration of the lower mid-bass monomer, it can also make louder sounds. Therefore, I can turn it on loudly and maintain clarity. I do not feel that the clarity of the sound will be significantly reduced due to the increasing volume.

In the vast majority of cases we will not be able to install the cabinet doors to built-in laundry products as the fittings very rarely match up. We will try our best however if we are unable to do this we will still install connect to plumbing and put the appliance in situ. Similarly, you can keep the sound clean when playing music, and this feature can be maintained even when playing at a high volume. Therefore, it is enough to allow the speaker to withstand greater power and exert tremendous sound pressure while maintaining clarity and low distortion during design. Q Acoustics covers most of the speaker products used in home entertainment product lines. The engineering and acoustic technology of designing speakers are their strengths. Q-Acoustics also has home theater systems, soundbar, and other audio products and provides fever-level sound performance and affordable prices while achieving product and commercial success. The middle part of this song is full of color, and the level is also tremendous and unique. What’s more, such a small speaker can show the momentum, the details can be heard clearly, and the focus of the music can be played out clearly. Not only does it have a sense of hierarchy, but the dynamics are also more precise, making the sound field a sense of different feeling. Conclusion

Get it wrong however and you will ruin the sound and draw too much attention to the sub and away from the speakers... with things like bass boom.. or the sub being set too high meaning your attention is immediately drawn to looking at it each time it fires and you might just as well go for floorstanders... Q-Acoustics prides itself on being different from other speaker companies. This young brand was founded in 2006 in the UK by professional businessmen and audio industry experts. The team has many alumni from top home audio brands, including KEF, Meridian, Mission, and Tannoy. Q Acoustics hopes to produce the most affordable speakers in the world. Coming from a fusion of both evolutionary and revolutionary thinking, the 3000i Series benefits from state-of-the-art speaker technology, as well as improvements to the cabinet construction. Every 3000i Series model is an outstanding, genuine Hi-Fi loudspeaker with models that can also be combined to deliver a fantastic home cinema sound. I began by playing the vinyl version of Morgana King’s Like a Seed from her Paramount LP New Beginnings, released in 1973, a sort of jazzy, funky and rather earnest ditty displaying remnants of the hippy dream, still dangling its legs in the waters of Aquarius.

At Peter Tyson we pride ourselves on prompt, efficient delivery. Please note that the daily cut off time for all next day delivery services is 3pm. Who better to set themselves that very challenge than Q Acoustics itself then? Which is exactly what it has done, adding a letter ‘i’ at the end of the name, as a flourish. The purpose of an exceptional Hi-Fi system is quite simply to provide a musical experience in the home, which comes as close as possible to the real thing. The 3000i Series boasts a range of features that enable exactly that. Every detail from the cabinet enclosure to the drivers, to the pioneering ‘Concept’ technology has been commissioned to this range. The emphasis on advanced cabinet design principles that preserve the subtle sonic clues which enable the ear to perceive a solid 3D soundstage is evident. Careful component matching and exhaustive listening tests have meant that the partnering electronics will do nothing to detract from the sheer enjoyment garnered by the sense of intimacy in the performance. As a consequence of the vertical response, we see a bit of a scoop in the crossover region of the spinorama, where the woofer transfers its sound over to the tweeter, but it is not as exaggerated as I’ve seen on other models with similar designs; in fact, it appears to be less substantial than the one on the smaller 3020i.That said, there are stark similarities between the mid/bass unit on the 3050i and the new 3030i. This 165mm unit features a new motor with aluminium windings covered in copper and has been tweaked for a stand-mounting speaker unit. During the Q-Acoustics 3020i bookshelf speaker performance test, I used a pair of QED speaker cables. Q-Acoustics recommends using QED cables as the speaker cable connection, writing on tags handing directly on the speaker terminals. You can guess that these two brands must have a very close cooperative relationship. In fact, these two brands are now under the same cooperation group- Armour Home Electronics. Below is a graph colloquially called a ‘spinorama,’ so-called because it involves rotating the speaker to capture its sound at a whole bunch of horizontal and vertical angles — 70 total. The spinorama distills all that data into a more digestible form, giving us a detailed overview of a speaker‘s performance. Q Acoustics 3030i Spinorama, measured from tweeter. Most measurements truncated below 200Hz due to limitations in my measurement technique. Buy Q Acoustics 3030i (400€), but here I am afraid that the bass would be bloated, since they are punchy.