Quote Originally Posted by Lerxst View Post
Hi Steve,

I am pleased with mine too - for the price they are very good. One of mine broke a tweeter after 7 months though, but it was replaced under warranty. The connections at the rear are a bit fiddly too and don't like any of the banana plugs I have tried - they just fall out. I have run them bi-wired but now I don't bother as I can't hear the difference. I think Rob is bi-wiring and experimenting with different cables for hi and low.

I have mine about 25 cm away from the wall and toed in a bit - I didn't get a good soundstage otherwise (my amp's soundstage is not its strongest point). About 2.5 meters apart and a little further away to where I sit.

They are easy to drive and sound Ok when at low volume too. My room is about 6 x 5 m with thick carpet, curtains, sofa and bare plasterboard walls which does get boomy corners at certain frequencies. Not much else. I don't have to use the supplied bungs for the single rear vent.

I would say they are a tiny bit bright, nice mid-detail, a little clinical but quite nice authoritative lower end. When driven hard they don't seem to go flakey. I have run them with a bright amp though and it was awful. So, if you have a neutral-sounding amp you will be OK.

I paid about £550 so for £389 they are even better. I didn't like only the one stabiliser on each speaker so have two on each - the holes all match up, same screws. I only got that idea when I had to send the first set back - DPD had really smashed them up in transit, but I kept the first pair's stabilisers. So mine were free.

I have a concrete floor. They seem to stand solidly enough. Construction is chipboard covered in a (nice) laminate. A heavier construction would have been nice but for the price you can't expect everything.

They are quite tall at 1 meter, but that puts the drivers right at ear-level for me.
Although my room is rather smaller at 4x4.2m it has very high ceilings so there’s a fair volume, there’s also additionally a bay window which the speakers back onto, the speakers are just forward of the 90 degree angle of the wall into the bay, so they don’t really get any reinforcement from it. The amp in the living room is a Cambridge CXA60, the one in the bedroom is a Yamaha AS501 both of them I think are pretty neutral in tonal balance. Which room the 3050s will end up in depends on how they compare to my Jordan Eikona 2 VTLs, quite a tough act to follow particularly as the Jordan’s are a considerably more expensive speaker. The thing I like when comparing the Jordan’s to the 2020i is that the QAs seem to handle less than perfect recordings better than the VTLs which tend to be ruthlessly revealing of such recordings and make them less enjoyable to listen to.
I’ve always thought using a single run of good thick stranded cable was preferable to bi wiring, I use 19/0.45mm 12AWG Teflon coated silver plated copper wire at £3/m for single run cable, it’s a bit inflexible but workable, I keep the wire pairs together with heat shrink and terminate them with Fisual right angle banana plugs which are excellent.
According to QA the sonic signature through their range of speakers is the same in the midrange and treble with differences just being in the amount of bass weight and extension with the larger drivers and cabinets. I certainly don’t find the 2020i to be bright and would hope the 3050 would be similar.
Did QA give any indication as to what caused your tweeter failure ?


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