Just got some AudioEngine A5+ speaker and they blow my mind


Ive been listening to headphones, DT 880's and IEM's shure 846's with either the Fiio 17 or the Cambridge Music DacMagic + ( dacmagic wins ). I just got the audioengine bookshelf speakers and running them through the fiio has blown my mind compared to the headphones. Closing your eyes you can point to where every instrument is being player on the stage in front. My mind was and is still being blown. I am now a speaker person 

onkey89

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I recently spent some weeks with the A5+. I agree that they are good, especially for the price - and I found that they sound much better on stands, precisely positioned. Actually it was fun how even small changes shifted the sound picture, and this re-positioning was much easier than with my big speakers at home.

Thanks ozzy62. Just felt the need to say. Audiogon is about people who actually listen, and test - I hope.

"I smell a rat"

what thats to mean? We are idiots, finding some good qualities with the speakers? I actually tested for some weeks. I only wrote, try them on stands.

I don’t like that kind of comment. You seem to devalue actual user experience, like snobs, out of hand. My Aurum Cantus 2 speakers (similar size two-way) are better than the A5+ in many ways, not to speak of my friend’s Magicos, or my own floorstander Audiokinesis Dream Makers. My point was only, these speakers are very "tuneable". No more, no less. No rat.