You may say I am comparing apples with pears across a silly price range, but to me money or lack of it spent on speakers is not the key thing (if you can afford the higher price of course!) - its whether I like the sound that matters and some cheaper speakers can out perform their price. So my question is not which of these do you recommend, but what you think each's style of sound is. I may prefer something different to you!
Some pointers from my listening experience so far:-
I like bass extension, but I found the A5's tiring on first listen because the bass to me sounded "flacid" and lazy. I compared some CM5's and while I found the sound less revealing and less tonally accurate, I preferred the bass - it seemed to keep up with the music better - toe tapping and not headache inducing. I will be trying again at another emporium - it may have been the room acoustic.
What I really want is something that is tonally accurate, soundstage to die for, clean and punchy bass, good with all music; if it has a bias, it has to be for mid and upper mid range to give an airy sound. And good volume. ideally around the £1000 mark, but if the sound knocks me over, I'd stretch to the A6 price range (And after that, I'd like peace in the middle east please!!)
I am using a Quad 909, so can drive most speakers to good volume if they have the power handling themselves. Source/pre-amp will be the Audiolab 8200CDQ.
Some pointers from my listening experience so far:-
I like bass extension, but I found the A5's tiring on first listen because the bass to me sounded "flacid" and lazy. I compared some CM5's and while I found the sound less revealing and less tonally accurate, I preferred the bass - it seemed to keep up with the music better - toe tapping and not headache inducing. I will be trying again at another emporium - it may have been the room acoustic.
What I really want is something that is tonally accurate, soundstage to die for, clean and punchy bass, good with all music; if it has a bias, it has to be for mid and upper mid range to give an airy sound. And good volume. ideally around the £1000 mark, but if the sound knocks me over, I'd stretch to the A6 price range (And after that, I'd like peace in the middle east please!!)
I am using a Quad 909, so can drive most speakers to good volume if they have the power handling themselves. Source/pre-amp will be the Audiolab 8200CDQ.