Audioengine A2 vs Creative T40 vs Bose Companion 20 vs M-Audio BX5a D2 - Page 3

boxy and muddy describs the a2's best, consider these http://www.samsontech.com/samson/products/studio-monitors/media-one/mediaone3a/ , better than the a2's and t40 but they are a bit bigger depth wise.

 

Many peoples thinks the A2s is great, include Me.

 

But other peoples think they sucks, and i'm know why.

 

as a said, my friend have a pair of A2s and they sound horrible. I have a pair of A2's that sounds great!

 

It's very strange. My friends A2s really sounds like you two are saying, very dark, dull, muddy, boxy sounding.

I have heard t40 and they sounds very bad in comparison to my A2s.

 

I have mailed Audioengine support about this, and they sound that much things can interfere with the A2s, that can be the problem. The power supply should be some feets away from you computer, you should not use halogen lamps in the near of the A2s, and so on.

 

Sorry again for my bad english.

 

So keeping the power supply away from the tower allows it to properly function?  Interesting...

It's a bit strange...  It seems like the power supply has very bad quallity.

It is, but it does make some sense since it could cause an electric interference and prohibit the speakers from receiving the full power they need.

you arent the only one, will be sticking up reviews of the 2 and 5+ shortly.

 

maybe i need to try the a2 again. You see space is a real limitation for me, so these come into consideration.

But i remember them sounding less superor to the creative t20 even. Neither are impressive to me though.

By some of the reviews it does sound like were all listening to completly different speakers, maybe the quality control on these is poor or the power supply mega crappy.
I compared them to what else you could get for the same money around £150 here, and compared them not directly to some £150 passive set-up the lower end wharfedale, gale, mission and polk speakers they sound really boxy and muddy in comparsion, compared to cheaper actives like the samson media one 3a which I recommend as an excellent alternative they once again sound boxy, muddy and really mid bassy. If they were priced at £50 then I wouldn't be able to find anything better and I would recommend them as a good pair of speakers for the money.

Yeah, if you want!

 

It also takes a while to break-in the A2s (due to the high quallity speakers elements i think) and they also sounds much better with the DS1 desktop stands. You can use books or something to raise them up otherwise.

 

 

 

Glad to hear, I will be waiting for the reviews

 

Edited by simonwellander - 2/15/12 at 9:39am

they are both up if you havent already seen them

I just bought A5B. I had didn't have chance to listen to any creative T20 or T40 but there are bose stores in my city. I drove to one of stores and listened companion 2 and 5 both. 

The representative started to demonstrate directly c5 and which didn't impress me at all and asking price is a big JOKE and nothing else. For given price tag only a fool can buy them. 

They even denied to tell specifications of any speakers they sell.

 

Then I asked to play c2. What a crappy sounding speakers c2 are. Even my stock chinese cheapo speakers sounded sweater than c2. Bose should be feel ashamed to even 

put c2 in their stores for demo. Considering sound quality I could buy C5 for 1/4th price. 

 

I hated bose after visiting their store and knowing their marketing tricks to sell crap at premium price.

Honestly, I think their only good computer speakers were both the C20s and C3s.

What!? Are you serious? I have listen to Comapion 5 and they didn't sound good AT ALL i think... I have the Audioengine  2s and even them sounds much better i would say

How long did you have the Audioengine 5s? Did you let them break in?