“Our immediate first impression was “wow.” The rear channel mix was handled just fine by the A2s, but it simply didn’t do them justice. We’d characterize the sound of them as rich as opposed to the lean and super-clean studio monitor kind of sound. There’s quite a bit of midbass, but it’s doesn’t cross the line to being tubby and poorly-defined. The bass response was remarkable — passersby always asked to see the requisite subwoofer box (there was none). We ran some test tones through the A2s and reached an honest 50Hz, albeit a bit attenuated. On the high end, things sounded good as well — most importantly, things didn’t get too “hot” in the upper registers, which we find very tiring.” —— engadget.com