These little things?
Written: May 07 '01
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Pros: Sound like a great pair of large speakers. Cheap.
Cons: Plastic tweeters are ear piercing but decent. Controls not so good.
The Bottom Line: For a 2.1 system for computer or whatever, these sound excellent and are cheap! Buy them before they stop making them.
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| randypar's Full Review: Altec Lansing ACS 48 2 Speakers |
These little things are making this sound? You must be kidding!
These speakers look laughable especially when you take the little grill covers off. You will see a fairly small mid range and a very tiny little plastic tweeter. You will see 4 cheap looking screws holding in the typical paper cone. The sub is heavy and well made.
Now, turn the sub knob down to 20 percent on the sub (Sub is way overpowering), turn up the volume on your source (TV or Computer or amp).
Now drop your jaw! These little things sound better than most peoples $900 stereo systems! These will carry sound fine through a house and will certainly annoy people if you crank them. They have a rather narrow spread from the sattelites so make sure they are up off the floor but at least 4 feet. Sub is very powerful and thankfully has its own volume knob.
The only downside is that the controls are on the right speaker for volume and power and a seperate knob on the sub for sub level. No headphone jack.
Also, the plastic tweeters are so powerful at the very high highs that you will be running for the mute button when something high pitch comes out. For example, a cell phone ringing or smoke alarm beeping on a TV show. Bells and glass breaking and other sharp sounds are truely frightening! Because of their size they suffer just a tad in the mids but have decent lows and sub and amazing but scary high freqs.
For their price they are a great 2.1 system. They are not new and hopefully they won't change a good thing, at least not much. These speakers have been reviewed over and over again and always get good reviews from Cnet for example.
The system uses stereo mini cables for the 2 main speakers. I had to run to radio shack to get a stereo-mini extension cable so I could put one speak on my TV and the other over on my bookshelf. Speakers are sheilded so you can put everything but the base near your computer monitor. Base unit is unshielded, put it on the floor. A little hissy so you want to keep the speaker volume not too high and turn up your source if you can.
I'm thinking of getting a 5.1 system but I really hate to ruin a good thing. I use these on my TV/CD/DVD setup. No amp needed, I use the TV outs. This means I need to use the TV volume when playing music CDs but hey, it works great!
-Randy
Recommended:
Yes
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