I first heard the ZA5 at a friends flat, being a student at varsity she was very tight with space so having such a compact speaker system as this was perfectly ideal. Curious to here the quality, I popped in an ipod via the zound's dock and scrolled to one of my favourite stacey kent song's "they can't take that away from me" Raising the volume I was amazed by the warmth and depth that flowed from the midrange. The overall timbre integration between the silk tweeters and mid woofers was spot on. The sound filled the apartment effortlessly without any harshness or that ear fatiguing shrill that is often heard with other equipment. Highs were silky smooth capturing every detail, in fact, sitting back and closing my eyes, the soothing vocals made as if stacey really appeared! Instruments were well placed in space attributing to the excellent build quality of the internal crossover. On tracks that contained a little more bass coupled with snaps of a snare drum these Zound speakers never waivered, they were fast and quick capturing the very soul of the track itself. Pushing the volume even higher was addicting, the ZA5's just simply sounded better and better. So good in fact that it forced me to scroll to old favourites, and even brought a few 'dead' songs back to life especially with the multitude of details I had never heard before.  

In a nutshell, this truly is an impressive package, One that easily is worth far far more than its asking price. Its simply Audio nirvana what this little package brings.