Well, since we're in the audiophile forum here we go... The A5's are not audiophile, and not so by far. Why so? Because they don't possess any audiophile characteristics. They fail miserably on stuff like clarity, imaging, centering, precision, freqnency response, tightness in bass etc. Well OK, they can play loud, but only for short periods of time before the thermal protection kicks in.
What they are is a competitive compromise. They relatively pleasant to listen to, being a one, OK two box, solution they are quite compact, they're not that ugly, they're not that expensive, and they can play loud and in doing so poor out plenty of bass. However if your going for audiophile you can certainly get better stuff for about the same money. One way to do this is to sacrifice some of the ompf and pure spl. That will put you in the marked for something like the smallest Fostex which are more audiophile, but in many ways not as impressive. Or you could go for something used. For that kind of money you could get some OK bookshelf speakers and an integrated amp which would easily dance around the table with the A5's. Of course its not as compact and used gear in that price range may have some bumps and scratches, but it'll sound better for sure. Or you could get some used active speakers, but where I live those don't seem to come up very often. My 2c etc. -- bhaagensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54559 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
