I recently purchased my newspeakers - the Altec Lansing BXR 1221. These speakers are the ones i finally zeroed on after a long hunt of three hours at the Asia's largest computer market - Nehru Place.
Priced at Rs1000, that is roughly US $45. Pretty cheap for a new branded pair of high performance speakers. The feature that i loved the most about them is their design. Small, kinda canon'ish, ready to blow out power but yet highly melodious. The small size makes them easy to place, and the long wires doesn't make it difficult to install anywhere slightly distant from the computer.
And i am right. Here are a couple of videos that i've recorded of them. One of the videos plays jay Z's 99 Problems. The other video plays D.O.A(Death of Autotune), and shows how the subwoofer blows .
Their performance is good. They give the in-house and in-hall experience well. Infact, i found them to be much better than Creative's S235, which some of the storekeepers had suggested. Personally, i didn't like the design of the Creative speakers, though i've heard good performance reviews for them. If one thing Altec Lansing does good , it is the product designing. The company seems to have spent a lot on designing its products well.
I had first seen these Altec Lansing babies at the Croma, Ansal PLaza store. They were at display and ready to be tested. I plugged them into my 5130XpressMuzic handset, and they gave really good sound output. Every sound was to its finest detail. And since that day, i became their fan.
It would be real fun for anyone to listen to rock and hip-hop/rap/RnB on them. Bass and Treble are perfectly balanced on them. I tried listening to Jay Sean's 'Stolen', and it sounds better than ever before. Stolen was released in the time when nothing called High Definition existed, and DVD was the highest possible audio-visual media standard.
My rating for Altec Lansing BXR1221 - 8 out of 10. Great design, great form factor(size) and a great value for money.
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