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| | Features | AC Power Cable6.5' (2 m) 1/8" (3.5mm) Stereo Audio Cable2x 8" (20 cm) 1/8" (3.5mm) Stereo Audio Cables1/8" to RCA "Y" Cable12.3' (3.75 m) Speaker Wire (16 AWG)
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| | 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 | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 20.0 inches | | Product Width: | 12.0 inches | | Product Height: | 15.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 15.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 22.0 inches | | Package Width: | 15.0 inches | | Package Height: | 11.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 27.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 33 reviews |
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 33 customer reviews )
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40 of 41 found the following review helpful:
 Budget audiophile level sound. Really. Oct 03, 2007
By Paul Liesenberg
"pablo"
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 found the following review helpful:
The speakers Apple should have designed. Jun 26, 2007
By Beemer903
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 found the following review helpful:
Very impressive speakers for the price! Sep 09, 2009
By Fortuna1
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.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Non-User-Configurable Power Save Creates Problems, Otherwise Quite Nice Oct 05, 2011
By Fork
I actually found these speakers with a Google Image search for for white speakers with gray accents. I was going for a certain "look" in a room, so imagine my astonishment when the best looking choice turned out to be very well reviewed for sound quality, and (relatively) inexpensive. So I bought 'em.
In the past I've used Genelecs and Mackies as powered monitors, which are of course in another league...but priced in another league as well ($600+ per speaker). On the AudioEngine the amplifier lives in the left unit, so you're not getting two powered monitors; you have one powered monitor that can optionally provide signal/power to a passive right speaker. There's no balanced XLR input or even independent 1/4" jacks, you've got a 1/8" stereo input--and that is it. In the past I've enjoyed the greater flexibility of high end monitors, but for this case it didn't matter. I read all the details on the website so I knew what I was getting. I was happy to get a pair of great looking and great sounding speakers that had made these tradeoffs.
What I didn't bargain for was how the AudioEngines handle their power-save mechanics. It is a documented issue that if you don't play loud enough sound for 15 minutes or so, they will make a loud "pop" as the internal amplifier shuts off. After this has happened, you have to feed it a signal of "sufficiently loud" strength for them to come back on again. As someone who occasionally listens to very quiet classical audio at night, I'm annoyed that they decide to turn off in the middle of it...and that I have to manually pump the volume to wake them back up again. The pop itself sounds like it could be a malfunction, and the two-prong power plug these speakers use show they aren't exactly up to date on electrical grounding practices.
I've learned to live with the power save pops, and don't regret the purchase. Anyone complaining about the sound quality who's mostly playing compressed MP3s or streaming YouTube needs a reality check...the sound is perfectly acceptable and biggest issues are probably arising from the DAC in your line out. I use a Novation X-Station's audio output to feed it, which is better than the built in port.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Pretty good Jan 17, 2011
By I. Travel
"Business Engineer / Consultant"
I'm a mid-level audiophile, and I tested as many powered 2.0 speakers that I could find to replace my broken Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX Certified Computer Speaker System (Black) (by the way, excellent sound on the Klipsch but the quality isn't so great). I loved the full sound that the Klipsch provided, but didn't want to have a subwoofer to put under my desk anymore.
I demoed a bunch of competing products, here's a capsule review:
M-Audio Studiophile AV 40 Powered Speakers: Awesome, these are the best ones that I tested and the ones that I bought. Warm sound, bass boost switch makes them sound much larger, but you can turn it off for flatter sound. Quality construction. Not as sexy looking as the others, but tons cheaper and better sounding. You should get these.
Audioengine A5 Powered Multimedia Speaker System (Black): Sounded good, but cost $200 more than the AV 40. Weaker bass, excellent vocals. Big box.
Audioengine 2 - PC multimedia speakers - 30 Watt (total) - 2-way - satin black: Weak, muddled sound. I was very disappointed given the positive reviews on the web. Look very nice though.
Yamaha HS50M (Active) Pair 2-Way Monitors: Very flat sound, but not as warm as the AV 40. Targeted for the musician with TRS inputs.
Bowers & Wilkins MM-1 Active Multimedia Speakers: Expensive, very muddled bass. Look nice, but the drivers and enclosures are too small to make good sound.
I won't comment on the Creative and Logitech PC speakers out there as I didn't test them and based on prior products from each company I don't think they compete with these quality speakers.
See all 33 customer reviews on Amazon.com
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