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AUDIOENGINE - A2 POWERED MINI SPEAKER (PR)

Audioengine's Mini A2 Powered Speakers Rock!

The A2s are the perfect small speakers, powerful and unobtrusive.  They throw a large soundstage, with excellent dynamics and a warm tonal balance. These pint-sized marvels are real speakers; MDF cabinets, excellent finishes, custom-made silk tweeter and Kevlar midrange.  A built-in powerful Class A/B amplifier with a low-noise toroidal transformer gives the A2s a level of immediacy that most small speakers cannot achieve.

“I have never been more impressed with a component I’ve reviewed than I was with the Audioengine 2, (the) level of sound quality and its ratio of value to cost borders on the criminal. What shocked me most about the Audioengines was how LARGE they sounded.  The A2 was able to recreate room ambience and low-level dynamic articulation at levels of quality I’m used to hearing from far more expensive speakers.”  Robert Reina Stereophile

When mated with the Sonos ZP-90, the A2s create the best inexpensive small system we’ve ever heard.  Perfect for a desk, dorm-room or any room, the A2s fill all but the biggest rooms with great sound.

Audioengine designs and manufactures their own tweeters, woofers, and many other critical components. These speakers are not built with off-the-shelf parts but entirely custom-designed to Audioengine's specifications. The few parts that Audioengine does not build themselves is custom-made to their specs (parts such as toroidal transformers, magnets, and wiring harnesses, for example). The cabinets, drivers, bass port designs, amplifiers, and crossovers are all painstakingly tuned together for each Audioengine model. This, in turn, makes for a much more efficient system that requires much less power than other designs.

Drivers
Audioengine uses audiophile quality, ferro-fluid cooled, silk dome tweeters with Neodymium magnets. Silk tweeters hold up well under high power and the edge-driven design gives very smooth response. The woofers are Kevlar woven glass aramid composite with rubber surrounds. Kevlar is a very strong material, which means the woofer retains its shape well even when being driven at high levels. The speaker materials and construction are robust enough to stand up to some serious thrashing, so speaker grills aren’t needed.

Cabinets
To minimize unwanted resonances and distortion, Audioengine cabinets have thick high-resin MDF walls with extensive internal bracing. Heavy internal sound-damping material is used to reduce unwanted sound reflections inside the cabinet. All cabinet edges are rounded which not only looks great, but also reduces high-frequency diffraction effects on the front baffles. Each cabinet contains tuned, rear-firing ports. Both speakers are tuned and tested together and sold in pairs.

Power Amplifier
The amplifiers in Audioengine speakers are located in the left speaker and are a very conservatively rated all-analog design. All components are tuned together for each model, which provides a much more efficient system requiring less power than passive speakers and separate amplifiers. Circuit boards for the power and preamp sections are vertically mounted for maximum mechanical shock protection.

Shielding
Both drivers are directly video shielded and allow the user to place the speakers within a few inches of a video monitor. This shielding also offers protection for hard-drive digital music players.

There are two finishes available for the A2, Gloss White and Silky Black; Gloss White mates best with Sonos and Apple products, Silky Black is very unobtrusive, almost a matte finish but with just enough glow to not look dull.

Features:

• 2 audio inputs (RCA and mini-jack)
• Built-in power amps (left speaker powers the right)
• Kevlar woofers for super low end and sweet midrange
• Silk tweeters for smooth highs and great extension
• High-quality speaker connectors
• Auto-sleep power-saving mode
• Hand-built cabinets with high-gloss or silky matte finish
• Video-shielded
• All cables included!

Included Accessories:

• Power supply
• Speaker cable (16AWG), 2 meters (~6.5 feet)
• 1/8" mini-jack audio cable, 2 meters (~6.5 feet)
• 1/8" mini-jack audio cable, 20cm (~8 inches)
• Drawstring power supply bag
• Drawstring cable bag
• Drawstring speaker bags (2)
• Setup Guide

Specifications:
Type: 2.0 powered (active) multimedia desktop speaker system  
Power Output: 15WPC
Inputs: 1/8" stereo mini-jack and RCA jacks
Voltages:100-240V, 50/60Hz auto-switching
Amplifier Type:Dual Class AB monolithic
Drivers:
  20mm silk dome tweeters with neodymium magnets
  2.75" Kevlar woofers with advanced voice coils
Signal-to-noise: >95dB (typical A-weighted)
THD: <0.05% at all power settings
Crosstalk: <50db
Frequency response: 65Hz-22kHz +/-2.0dB
Input impedance:10K ohms unbalanced
Protection: Output current limiting, thermal over-temperature, power on/off transient protection
Dimensions (each): 6”(H) x 4”(W) x 5.25”(D)
Weight: LEFT speaker: 3.55lbs RIGHT speaker: 3.15lbs
Shipping weight: 10lbs per pair
Shipping box HWD:10.5”x 7”x 15”
Materials and Construction: 18mm thick MDF cabinets
Toroidal power transformer