Altec lansing MX5021

Have been eying this speaker for quite some time but have put piority in upgrading other stuff.But now, with some extra cash to burn, a damage tweeter on my old audio system and best of all the price fall to 215SGD recently, i went ahead with the purchase.
Firstly, the manual is crap giving you vague information and they did not mention how to install the remote control battery at all.The wire setup is clear cut but better elaboration is definetly a must for more inexperience users.The connection is used using red and black wire being clipped tightly with a spring which is used widely in hi-fi and home theatre system.With 1 tweeter and 2 full range each for a satellite and massive subwoofer, it look like its gonna rock some quiet neighbor hood to hell.
Upon the first time i fire up the speakers, it isnt that much improvement from my old speakers which is 2 years old and is the same calibre and price range as this speaker.Distrotion is still present during loud playback, the bass is rather weak for my preference.With some tweaking, i isolated the distortion from the overemphesize of the treble which probably over work that poor little tweeters.Reduced treble by about 20% and increase bass by 10% yield the best listening pleasure.After this, listening is heaven and hell difference when compared to my old speakers.You could listen small details that could not be heard,but also start making 128kb mp3 sound horrible.About 192Kb/s audio files is now prefered.This speaker is THX certified but i could not find any source that have THX, so i couldnt benefit or know wad so fucking great about that=.=

Huge & heavy packaging...


means massive speakers...


and subwoofer which make me a happy man.