Altec Lansing MX5020 2-piece PC Speaker System
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List Price: $99.95
Features
• MaxxBass technology creates deep bass without a subwoofer
• 12 watts RMS total continuous power
• Dual inputs allow connection to a second audio player
• Headphone jack for private listening
• Color-coded cables for easy installation |
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Altec Lansing MX5020 2-piece PC Speaker System Customer Reviews
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Good "plastic" speakers
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I bought MX5020 wanting to be able to listen to the music form portable CD out of my stereo system. I must admit that i do care about the sound quality, so my expectations were not high, however after reading several reviews i decided on Altecs MX5020.
Turning them on was a surprise: plenty of sound with quite apealing tone. Suspicious i took them home to compare with real sound from stereo. The moment of truth was somehow sad.
There is plenty of sound, but this sound has nothing to do with original!! One cannot expect much from small plastics, however for some kind of music it simply kills it.
I mean:
- guitar of Paco DeLucia does not sound like guitar, sounds like guitar imagined by engineers from Altec - terrible.
- female vocals of Particia Barber are acceptable, if one can accept distortions and basically lack of proper midrange.
- male vocals (Tom Waits) are distorted by maxbass, hardly acceptable.
- trumpet of Miles Davis sounds like in a jar.
- saxophone of Sony Rollins sounds like child toy
- rock (Pink Floyd, Sting etc.) is acceptable.
- piano of Keith Jarret is not a piano, especially in lower registers.
One can expect these kind of distortion form toy speakers, however bad think is the maxbass cannot be switche off! Turning down bass kills midrange, so one must accept permanent "bum bum" of so called bass.
I did compate Altecs to Bose, Logitech they were the same if not worse.
Overall i can recomen them to those wanting to listen "bum bum" music, jazz or clasics lovers would be disapointed, but what one can expect from small toy? Other brands and models does not seem to be better, unlike you go for expensive real stereo. |
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Altec Lansing MX5020 2-piece PC Speaker System home electronics.