the a5 cabinet is quite resonant, so one needs to pay much more attention to the stands they're sitting on to get the most out of them, putting them directly on desktop table is a bad idea. Anyway, i always felt the setup at cd acoustic is a great example of how not to demo the a5, or aktimate for that matter.
Don't know if things have changed, but using an old dvd player as source and placing the speakers on top of a cd player is laughable. Though that wasn't as bad as jimmy demoing the aktimate for my friend while the big harbeths were completely blocking the aktimate
i think audiotrio (the distributor) is a much better place to audition.