Acoustic Energy and Totem


Does anyone have experience with the Acoustic Enegy AE-1, AE-2 or Totem speakers?
If so,what electronics do you use?
Thanks,johnny7
johnny7

Showing 2 responses by justlisten

Celtic66 is spot on, the Ae's will spit out what is put in them, an example is a disc I played last night, I believe it was Tears for Fears, Woman in Chains, (Japanese CD pressing, reissiuse), It sounded so bad I thought there was something wrong with the speakers....I had listened to this song several times before on my Duntechs and it sounded great....thinking I blew a tweeter on the Ae's...I put on another CD, KDLang live by Request, Trail of Broken Hearts...nothing wrong there...the Ae's are produce the source very very revealing yet truthfully.
I have a pair of ae1s and ae2s. I use tubes (Fourier Panthere OTLs) and have used a hybrid amp(Counterpoint Sa20 monoblocks). the speakers love to be driven hard and produce the most natural midrange ive heard. the ae1s have more precise imaging and soundstaging, however the 2s are much more spacious, sort of a small club vs a larger one. I use subs with both and did not like them w/o subs. I am selling my Duntech floor standers since buying the Ae2s.