The satellite units are about a foot tal and two inches in diameter. They
are round with the touch controls for volume on the right hand speaker.
They appear to be two columns or sticks on your desk. They are good and
heavy with about a 3 to 4 inch cylindrical base to them.
The woofer looks quite like a small bee hive and sits on 3 or 4 small feet
that allow sound to escape from under the unit. It really should be placed
under a desk.
The design is visually appealing and they are a part of the industrial
design display at the NYC Museum of Modern Art. I believe they were
originally intended to be used with one of the early Macs.
I just read an ad/review of some new bluetooth/air play speaker/sound units
from Cambridge Audio called MINX. The review made them sound interesting.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wood" <k8...@att.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: My Computer Speakers Died
Why do they call them sound sticks?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 12:57 AM
Subject: My Computer Speakers Died
Hi!
Subject line displays the grim reality, was working away here when there
was a crackle and the smell of smoke rising from the sub-woofer of my
Altec Lansing Expressionist Ultra speaker system so that looks to be the
end of those.
I looked around for another pair but can't find them anywhere which is a
shame as this system has been the best Computer speaker system I've
owned.
I then decided to do a little research, "Google Is My Friend" so I typed
"Best Computer Speakers" in and found to my amazement a web page that
lets you compare all sorts of atributes for computer speakers, size,
wattage, controls, features and so on.
From the little time I had to look at this page I found that the nearest
competitor to the Altec Lansing Expressionist Ultra speaker system seemed
to be the Harman Kardon Sound Sticks, audio specs seem the same except
that the Sound Sticks only have a low end of 44HZ instead of 40HZ for the
Expressionist Ultra speaker system, nothing to worry about then in that
area, both speakers have a top frequency of 20KHZ.
The only other annoyance about the Sound sticks was that the controls
were on the speakers themselves - volume was on 1 speaker and volume for
the sub-woofer was on the woofer -, yes an annoyance but not a critical
point, something that wouldn't turn me off buy this speaker setup.
So has anyone had any experience with the Harman Kardon Sound Sticks and
what do you think or perhaps you have another recommendation or - even
better - perhaps you know of where I can get another Altec Lansing
Expressionist Plus speaker system <smile>.
**********
Dane Trethowan
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