Audioengine A5 White (Pr) 2-way Powered Speaker System

by AudioEngine

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 20 x 12 x 15 inches ; 15 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 30 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000OB16ZI
• Item model number: A5 White
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 12, 2007

Product Description

Small Speakers, Big Bass. You won't hear any enhanced super-mega-hyper-monster boomy bass from these speakers. The low end from the Audioengine 5 is real bass, very near to the originally recorded music. From rap to classical to movies, you'll get tight, punchy bass with an awesome growl that will make you smile - regardless of the volume level. Kevlar woofers for powerful bass, silk dome tweeters for smooth highs, built-in power amplifiers, truly useful connections, and a clean industrial design all allow the Audioengine 5 to integrate perfectly in your living room, bedroom, or desktop. Custom-designed and handcrafted wood cabinets with high-gloss professional piano finish make the Audioengine 5 a true work of art. All these (and more) have been carefully considered to create an authentic soundstage for your valuable multimedia components - the sound as it was originally mixed in the studio. Vocals are clearly placed and each instrument occupies its own space. BR> It works with: Flat panel TV Mobile phones and PDAs CD and DVD players Videogame players Digital radio and satellite receivers All other products with 1/8 mini-jack or RCA outputs! The 2-way speaker system employs a 5 Kevlar Woofer coupled with a 20mm silk soft-dome Tweeter to deliver a wide frequency response range from 50 Hz up to 22,000Hz. The 1 thick MDF cabinet offers excellent audio support to deliver an authentic, rich soundstage that rivals much larger speaker systems. ipod power charger port 2 audio inputs Built-in power amplifiers, no receiver needed - 45 Watts RMS per channel Wireless-ready! Power outlet for Airport Express Front panel volume control Custom Kevlar woofers for super low end / Silk dome tweeters for smooth highs Subwoofer output for adding an optional powered subwoofer High-quality speaker connectors Auto-sleep power saving mode Hand-built and finished cabinets Video shielded Au

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Budget audiophile level sound. Really., October 3, 2007

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Paul Liesenberg "pablo" (bay area, california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Audioengine A5 White (Pr) 2-way Powered Speaker System (Personal Computers)

These speakers represent a mindblowing, inconceivable price-performance proposition for the true music lover. The clarity, neutrality, musicality, staging and transparency is simply unreal for a <$400 speaker. If someone had told me these speakers were 5 times their price as I listened to them, I would have believed it.

2 caveats for potential buyers: if you are looking for asocial amounts of raw power and over the top bass, this was not designed for you. This is for music lovers that appreciate a crystal clear, musical and neutral delivery of material. Considering their size, their ability to deliver very satisfying bass umph and play at levels that will overwhelm your ability to discern detail is pretty amazing, though.

For those who utterly need more bass, AudioEngine was thoughtful enough to provide a subwoofer port, and I can tell you it works, but if I had to do it all over again I'd save myself the subwoofer expense. It has to be turned way down in volume and truly kept under 60Hz to not spoil the Audioengine's balance delivery.

And I don't praise the AudioEngine speakers too easily: I regard myself as a bit of an audiophile snob, listening to my music at home through a $25k stereo consisting of Accuphase CD and amplifier and B&W speakers.

I got a transfer that has me living in a one bedroom apartment for the next year or two. No way the big stereo, speakers (and over 2,000 CDs) could come with me. After doing some research and asking some people whose opinion I respect on less snobbish audiophile forums, I decided to buy the AudioEngine speakers. The setup is remarkably easy: my entire collection resides on a redundant network drive. I stream it wirelessly to a small box (the Slim Devices SqueezeBox) that does the DA conversion at very high quality, and it gets fed into the active AudioEngine speakers. The total cost of this minimalist and clean setup (perfect for a one bedroom apartment that I like neat and open) is of less than $700 for electronics, plus a few additional hundred for stuff that filters and cleans power, plus good quality cabling (but nothing esoterically expensive). The result? Pretty amazing. Do I still miss my home stereo? Yes. But it's amazing how close this gets, and how satifying this is, at a fraction of the cost.

This is a great time to be an audiophile.

Thank you, AudioEngine!

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The speakers Apple should have designed., June 26, 2007

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Beemer903 (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Audioengine A5 White (Pr) 2-way Powered Speaker System (Personal Computers)

Bottom line: if you use an Airport Express and want to deliver astonishing quality wireless music throughout your house, then get these. They are thoughtfully designed to accommodate the Airport Express in a port on the back. Their industrial design is reminiscent of the iPod Hi-Fi, but delivers a more robust, fuller spectrum sound, in my opinion. Also, being separate speakers, you can place them some distance apart for much better stereo separation. Given that they are roughly the price of the iPod Hi-Fi, deliver better quality sound, and have a nice Apple-esque/Braun design aesthetic, I highly recommend these as probably the best powered speaker solution available for Airport Express / iTunes users. Couldn't be happier.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very impressive speakers for the price!, September 8, 2009

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Fortuna1 (Boulder) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Audioengine A5 White (Pr) 2-way Powered Speaker System (Personal Computers)

I owned Thiel speakers, NAD monitor series preamp and an Acurus amp but needed to consolidate due to new living situation. Sold my previous gear and bought these based on the glowing reviews. Literally every review said BUY THESE! LOL. So I did and am very pleased. For a tenth of the price, I am listening to alot more music and loving it!

I do recommend an outboard digital audio converter ( DAC ) rather than the headphone output of your computer. These are good enough that it might be worth if for you.
I hear the Apple airport express does a decent job with this and is better than the headphone jack.

Lots of other details in the other reviews so I won't go into it.

They of course are in a different class than the high end audiophile systems, but that's the beauty of these speakers. They are VERY good and not just for the price, which is ridiculously cheap. They are just a fine piece of stereo equipment. I hear detail I haven't heard before.



Get them. They can be returned for free refund.