Details exactly as my dealer told me last week, even the red driver.
I'm going to pay visit to the guy about R7 upgrade. Probably going to be way too expensive, next best thing would be to switch back to bookshelves with R3 Meta.
R3 Meta is in my opinion the best R Speaker option. I always felt the R series towers to have the uniQ Unit below the ear level which makes it sound nice if you are lying down a couch but while sitting despite very little shit in tonality, the image of the singer is always below ear level. Stand mounting a R3 which has the uniq above this level if that’s important to you.
I think the reference 3 is taller than the R7 and therefore you get the image shifted slightly above on them making them feeling different in sound during the demo.
On graphs from midrange up, they are similar in lot of ways but in person they sound different may be for this reason.they measure it in the midrange axis. If a proper listening comparison is to be made, the heights should be matched I think.