06-Jun-2021, 13:25
I'm driving A5 with an original, unmolested, D-Premier. They make beautiful music together.
Absolutely staggering speaker. Hard to imagine how they will ever be improved upon. An engineering tour-de-force, all the audiophile attributes (not that I care), floorshaking playback level potential (I care occasionally), but profoundly musical (I care a lot).
The A5s replaced the A3s, which were also very well-driven by the DP. I'll give my opinion on the difference.
The A3s were only the second box loudspeaker I heard which I thought was good enough to displace the Quad ESL. (The first, incidentally, was the Q1)
The A5s are an incremental uplift over the A3s only in physical size, weight, driver count, and power handling. Sonically they are from/on another planet. Most importantly, the midrange is of an electrostatic level of purity and coherence, with all the musical benefits that result.
Absolutely staggering speaker. Hard to imagine how they will ever be improved upon. An engineering tour-de-force, all the audiophile attributes (not that I care), floorshaking playback level potential (I care occasionally), but profoundly musical (I care a lot).
The A5s replaced the A3s, which were also very well-driven by the DP. I'll give my opinion on the difference.
The A3s were only the second box loudspeaker I heard which I thought was good enough to displace the Quad ESL. (The first, incidentally, was the Q1)
The A5s are an incremental uplift over the A3s only in physical size, weight, driver count, and power handling. Sonically they are from/on another planet. Most importantly, the midrange is of an electrostatic level of purity and coherence, with all the musical benefits that result.
1000 Pro / Magico A5 / REL Studio III
