Acoustic Energy AE309

ur abiding memory of Acoustic Energy goes back 28 years, at an interesting time during the company’s history. It was only eight years after the company had been founded by Phil Jones in West London; Jones had grown up sitting in on his father’s big-band rehearsals, and became a bass guitarist himself, as well as an electronics enthusiast, building an AM radio at the aged of nine, and a bass guitar amp at 16. Realising he could do better, he got ever deeper into loudspeaker design, beginning — as did so many speaker designers of that and later eras — with Gilbert Brigg’s classic Loudspeakers: The Why and How of Good Reproduction, first published back in 1948 (and still available on Amazon today!). His preferences