I have a set of MX5021 s and they are the best 2.1 system for the buck.
The speakers have two midrange drivers and a tweater. It takes less power to get sound out of these as they don't have to be long throw drivers.
Up to the point of clipping they deliver a much fuller sound vs ever the Klipshe 2.1s. Some speakers have a great sub but there is a huge frequency hole between what the sub can do and what the satellites can do. These fill in the gap much better. Love them would buy again.
The Altec Lansing MX6021 just got released in the month of August 2009. It is a 200W RMS 2.1 speaker system. Try to google it. Just wanted your opinion about MX6021 compared to MX5021.
Just got some new altec lansing speakers for Christmas and man they are awesome. Not as powerful as the ones in this video but still has a cool subwoofer
It's more like FX-5051 then MX-5021. If the FX-5051 will beat the Z5500 sub, I don't know I never saw it or even listen to them. But since it not THX certified I doubt it, that it's even better than mine mx-5021.
I don't know, it depends of what 6.5" dual sub you're talking about, anyway my single 6.5" Altec sub in my opinion already beats the z5500 driver in bass quality, now in volume performance there's is nothing around it's price that beats it.
I wonder how the bigger altec lansings are. I saw a altec lansing that was the same sort of idea of the z5500. I wonder if these would have good sound quality and be as loud as the logitech. The best of both systems.
For sound quality in my case I prefer Altec Lansing. My Altec Mx-5021 sats are much bigger than any sat of logitech. The sub is not as bigger as z5500 but it's still bigger for a pc sub, but since it kicks like a bigger boy, no prob :D.
There is something wrong with your Z5500 then, because i know that my Z5500 does a perfect job and it also seems that the bass is coming out of the sattelites too, and it does it really good, so were is your z5500, you gonna do a vid on it?, i seen your mx-5021 in currys, i really dont think its anywere near as good as the z5500, but then again, everyone has different oppinons and hears differently to someone else.
Z5500 don't do a perfect job, nor very good. They do a good job only, because the sub pumps out rock solid bass and our ears can detect from here the sound is coming. The mx-5021 sub pumps out more deep bass (not rock solid bass) and our ears can't detect from here the sound is coming, thats why our ears assume the sat as the real bass output, since the sat is purposed for directional sound. INFO: deeper bass means less directional sound.
When i listin to music, i have the sub on a normal volume that just compliments the music, its nothing to do with the sub why people thing its good, the sub doesent dround out the speakers, infact i want it to go louder, the z5500 aint loud enough for me were the sub is concerned, i turned the sub to 0 so there was no bass, and the sattelites are still awsome quality sound.
yeah I already did that, putting sub at 0 and listen only the sat and I concluded, they can't go much higher without stress the sound and the mids sometimes sounds like pure sh!t. I usually uses the z5500 for gaming or movies because for overall kinds of music thay don't sound good, only for trance/bass based musics. Now where did you get the specs of the z5500, 13rms for sat and 70w rms for sub?
For Music, i really dont see how they dont sound good, there awsome for music, i looks around the internet, seen that the z560 aint what they really right, and also the z5500 sats are clearly 12w rms and tangband, you seen them in the link, but i think 62w rms is for its maximum excursion.
Watts means audio performance, so it really matters a little. That specs of z5500 are false, maybe the speakers of logitech are maded by tangband, altec lansing produces it's own products, since they produce too, profissional audio if you don't know :)
No really, watts mean nothing, i witnessed a 200w system totall destroy a 500w system, you cant say altec are better coz they make there own speakers, tangband makes good speakers and subs, and really, the z5500 3" driver is better quality, its your thought, you heard the altec and z5500, you think altec is better, i heard both too, for me, the z5500 is better and i dont really like the altec at all, infact i would proberbly choose the z2300 over them.
In fact I was to buy the z2300 instead of the mx-5021, but I bought the mx-5021 it has less power, is more expensive but better sound quality (based in some reviews, I never listened to them). Well if the z2300 sound like z5500 in 2.1, it sure is crap anyway, again only for bass is good.
Just because you think the Altec is better than the Z5500 dont mean it is, everyone has different tastes and to see which one really is better they would both need to be tested in a special room and measured and stuff, personly i think the Z5500 is allot better, thats my thought. i was at currys, heard your altec, i was like 1 meter away from it...
For me this Altec Lansing product (MX-5021)is the best for sound quality. Since I am a owner of the two systems, well I can value more this than you. Actually I own the cambridge soundworks (CREATIVE) FourPointSurround 1000, CREATIVE G380, Logitech Z-340, Altec Lansing MX-5021 and Logitech Z-5500, just to show you that my only product of altec lansing is this one, and right now at home only have the z340, z5500 and the altec. In the end both products are kick ass.
Lol, it must be a big curry's store. They don't sell systems like this at curry's in aberystwyth or shrewsbury... Which town do you live in over here in the UK?
I like the mx-5021 too.. They're very stylish //but personally, i'd choose the z2300. the quality for sure is not better than the mx 5021..but i just want a subwoofer with more wattage...120 watts rms man..i would choose that over the mx 5021's sub.
This little sub, is pretty and impressive, it goes really lower for a 6.5" subwoofer; and better than that it's a very dynamic sub, it knows when it needs to be quiet and furious. I Love this mx-5021 and of course love my z-5500, but mx-5021 sounds better in overall.
You to say that the z5500 sound better than the mx-5021 means that you never had the pleasure of listen to them right in front of them, because they sound much, much better in overall (not talking about the bass only). see my other vids, subscribe me :)
You know there is such thing as overwattaging speakers. If the satelites on the Logitech Z-5500 are 120 watts, they can possibly make it to 162. Just like the Pioneer Premiers that are rated 1000 wrms and some went as far as 2000 wrms. The subwoofer is 180 wrms but they can over it to more than 188 wrms atleast. But they made it to 188 wrms.
The specs that most companys show is the wattage of their amps and not the speaker power capabilities itself. Althought z5500 can't deliver more than 350W, due to source power limitations.
Its not surprising those sattelites have better sound quality than the Z5500 sattelites since they have 2 drivers and a tweeter too, so the high and mids will sounds better.
Sat are better and subwoofer does a nice job too pumping out very deep bass that our ears actually thinks that the bass comes all from the sat, and this is other thing that the z5500 can't do at least as good as the mx-5021. And I'm a owner of the two systems so I'm not being a fanboy or thing like that.
I bought it for 209€ (+/- $210), the sub can't go as high as the z5500 but it pumps very deep and confortable bass; the satellites archive an awesome sound clarity and impressive high volumes without distortion, to give you an idea the 2 mx-5021 satellites are better than the 5 satellites of the z5500 pumping out sound together. mx-5021 sound like a true very expensive hi-fi system.
Oh also, no PC speakers sound like a true Hi-Fi, i can gaurantee they wont sound anywere near as good as some nice B&W bookshelves or Floorstands, and i cant see the 2 speskers pump out more SPL than the Z5500 coz it has 5 3" drivers, all capable of high excursion for there size.
but actually the MX-5021 satellites are better than the z5500 satellites by far, since they had one tweeter and two midranges (one of them for mid/high and other for mid/low frequences) this satellites pump out more SPL without stressing the sound, z5500 sat stress to quickly. And this mx-5021 sound like a hi-fi and thats the reason they are very expensive for a 2.1 system with it's power (20W rms x2 and sub 50W rms).
No PC Speakers sound like Hi-Fi systems, i can gaurantee yours does not, i tell you now, your mx 5021 does not sound like any good bookshelve speakers, for one, the drivers in the sattelites are far too small, and the tweeter only makes it perform better on highes than the z5500 as all a tweeter does is the highers.
Also, really, return your Z5500's, they really dont stress at lower volume, these things get to super high volumes before they stress ears, infact i opened the windows, could hear the z5500 from 50 meters away, went abck to my room, no stressing, just too loud for normal listning.
the z5500 sat starts to get stressed at about >75%, and not a low volumes. But again a 3 way speaker is better than 1 way with a phase plug in the middle that simules a tweeter but it doesn't act like a real one. Most of the volume crazyness in the z5500 sat is provocated by the stressing factor, they are good, but it doesn't perform like mx-5021 in any kind of music.
The Z5500 dont stress at high volumes, yours must be faulty, mine goes to 100% no problem, also the Z5500 sattelites are using higher quality and also go lower than the altec, (150hz for altec, 120hz for z5500), the drivers in the z5500 sattelites are also rated at only 12W RMS, so the wattage for the altec is also proberbly not true aswell, (z5500 sub really 70w rms)
where did you saw that specs from the z5500? I can go to the 100% with no prob, but for listening normal music (pop/rock)the sat don't distort but it sounds stressful, my mx-5021 stress too, but it only stress when volume is really focking high.
Also, about watts, they dont mean anything at all, decent Hi-Fi speakers like real ones with 5" cones can do decent spl with only a few watts, most never reac there maximum wattage anyway. just think the drivers in the z5500 sats are rated at 12w rms, and how loud they go, just shows watts dont count.
For overall volume output the z5500 wins, because the subwoofer can get really higher, to tell you the true I think that z5500 sub can go more higher than the it's satellites. The altec lansing mx-5021 is not purposed for higher volumes, because it's subwoofer limits the overall volume, mx5021 sub to be on pair of the performance volume of it's satellites I need to put the sub at 1/5. Now for sound quality the mx-5021 is really fantastic I love them.
I have a set of MX5021 s and they are the best 2.1 system for the buck.
The speakers have two midrange drivers and a tweater. It takes less power to get sound out of these as they don't have to be long throw drivers.
Up to the point of clipping they deliver a much fuller sound vs ever the Klipshe 2.1s. Some speakers have a great sub but there is a huge frequency hole between what the sub can do and what the satellites can do. These fill in the gap much better. Love them would buy again.
MRHankyTheTanky 1 year ago
The Altec Lansing MX6021 just got released in the month of August 2009. It is a 200W RMS 2.1 speaker system. Try to google it. Just wanted your opinion about MX6021 compared to MX5021.
But thanks anyway :D
gamerboy249 2 years ago
Hey dude, I'm looking to buy the MX6021. Is it any better than the MX5021 in terms of sound quality and bass?
gamerboy249 2 years ago
I dunno, never heard MX6021 or the FX6021
PlayLifeX 2 years ago
mx5021 is no good in mid ranges??
noruego17 2 years ago
mx5021 is good in everything
PlayLifeX 2 years ago
i just got these speakers!!! There the sickest things ever!!
akshaythe1 4 years ago
Just got some new altec lansing speakers for Christmas and man they are awesome. Not as powerful as the ones in this video but still has a cool subwoofer
jp7545 4 years ago
you do know im talking about the mx-5051 5.1 right. not yours
pizzaisgood14 4 years ago
It's more like FX-5051 then MX-5021. If the FX-5051 will beat the Z5500 sub, I don't know I never saw it or even listen to them. But since it not THX certified I doubt it, that it's even better than mine mx-5021.
PlayLifeX 4 years ago
the dual 6.5 inch subs would beat the z5500s 10 inch, right
pizzaisgood14 4 years ago
I don't know, it depends of what 6.5" dual sub you're talking about, anyway my single 6.5" Altec sub in my opinion already beats the z5500 driver in bass quality, now in volume performance there's is nothing around it's price that beats it.
PlayLifeX 4 years ago
pizzaisgood14, the Logitech Z-5500 would beat the dual 6.5 inch subwoofers. The dual ones are 28wrms and Logitech is 188wrms.
calvinyuenblinke 4 years ago
I wonder how the bigger altec lansings are. I saw a altec lansing that was the same sort of idea of the z5500. I wonder if these would have good sound quality and be as loud as the logitech. The best of both systems.
pizzaisgood14 4 years ago
For sound quality in my case I prefer Altec Lansing. My Altec Mx-5021 sats are much bigger than any sat of logitech. The sub is not as bigger as z5500 but it's still bigger for a pc sub, but since it kicks like a bigger boy, no prob :D.
PlayLifeX 4 years ago
There is something wrong with your Z5500 then, because i know that my Z5500 does a perfect job and it also seems that the bass is coming out of the sattelites too, and it does it really good, so were is your z5500, you gonna do a vid on it?, i seen your mx-5021 in currys, i really dont think its anywere near as good as the z5500, but then again, everyone has different oppinons and hears differently to someone else.
willhub 5 years ago
Z5500 don't do a perfect job, nor very good. They do a good job only, because the sub pumps out rock solid bass and our ears can detect from here the sound is coming. The mx-5021 sub pumps out more deep bass (not rock solid bass) and our ears can't detect from here the sound is coming, thats why our ears assume the sat as the real bass output, since the sat is purposed for directional sound. INFO: deeper bass means less directional sound.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
When i listin to music, i have the sub on a normal volume that just compliments the music, its nothing to do with the sub why people thing its good, the sub doesent dround out the speakers, infact i want it to go louder, the z5500 aint loud enough for me were the sub is concerned, i turned the sub to 0 so there was no bass, and the sattelites are still awsome quality sound.
willhub 5 years ago
yeah I already did that, putting sub at 0 and listen only the sat and I concluded, they can't go much higher without stress the sound and the mids sometimes sounds like pure sh!t. I usually uses the z5500 for gaming or movies because for overall kinds of music thay don't sound good, only for trance/bass based musics. Now where did you get the specs of the z5500, 13rms for sat and 70w rms for sub?
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
For Music, i really dont see how they dont sound good, there awsome for music, i looks around the internet, seen that the z560 aint what they really right, and also the z5500 sats are clearly 12w rms and tangband, you seen them in the link, but i think 62w rms is for its maximum excursion.
willhub 5 years ago
Watts means audio performance, so it really matters a little. That specs of z5500 are false, maybe the speakers of logitech are maded by tangband, altec lansing produces it's own products, since they produce too, profissional audio if you don't know :)
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
No really, watts mean nothing, i witnessed a 200w system totall destroy a 500w system, you cant say altec are better coz they make there own speakers, tangband makes good speakers and subs, and really, the z5500 3" driver is better quality, its your thought, you heard the altec and z5500, you think altec is better, i heard both too, for me, the z5500 is better and i dont really like the altec at all, infact i would proberbly choose the z2300 over them.
willhub 5 years ago
In fact I was to buy the z2300 instead of the mx-5021, but I bought the mx-5021 it has less power, is more expensive but better sound quality (based in some reviews, I never listened to them). Well if the z2300 sound like z5500 in 2.1, it sure is crap anyway, again only for bass is good.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
Just because you think the Altec is better than the Z5500 dont mean it is, everyone has different tastes and to see which one really is better they would both need to be tested in a special room and measured and stuff, personly i think the Z5500 is allot better, thats my thought. i was at currys, heard your altec, i was like 1 meter away from it...
willhub 5 years ago
For me this Altec Lansing product (MX-5021)is the best for sound quality. Since I am a owner of the two systems, well I can value more this than you. Actually I own the cambridge soundworks (CREATIVE) FourPointSurround 1000, CREATIVE G380, Logitech Z-340, Altec Lansing MX-5021 and Logitech Z-5500, just to show you that my only product of altec lansing is this one, and right now at home only have the z340, z5500 and the altec. In the end both products are kick ass.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
Lol, it must be a big curry's store. They don't sell systems like this at curry's in aberystwyth or shrewsbury... Which town do you live in over here in the UK?
XxRowanTheMonkeyxX 5 years ago
I live in York, I think it was Currys, it was either Currys or Comet. PC World had the Z5500's in once.
willhub 5 years ago
I like the mx-5021 too.. They're very stylish //but personally, i'd choose the z2300. the quality for sure is not better than the mx 5021..but i just want a subwoofer with more wattage...120 watts rms man..i would choose that over the mx 5021's sub.
calvinyuenblinke 5 years ago
This little sub, is pretty and impressive, it goes really lower for a 6.5" subwoofer; and better than that it's a very dynamic sub, it knows when it needs to be quiet and furious. I Love this mx-5021 and of course love my z-5500, but mx-5021 sounds better in overall.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
You to say that the z5500 sound better than the mx-5021 means that you never had the pleasure of listen to them right in front of them, because they sound much, much better in overall (not talking about the bass only). see my other vids, subscribe me :)
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
the z-2300 is pretty crap lol
ThisIs2009 2 years ago
You know there is such thing as overwattaging speakers. If the satelites on the Logitech Z-5500 are 120 watts, they can possibly make it to 162. Just like the Pioneer Premiers that are rated 1000 wrms and some went as far as 2000 wrms. The subwoofer is 180 wrms but they can over it to more than 188 wrms atleast. But they made it to 188 wrms.
calvinyuenblinke 4 years ago
The specs that most companys show is the wattage of their amps and not the speaker power capabilities itself. Althought z5500 can't deliver more than 350W, due to source power limitations.
PlayLifeX 4 years ago
oh really? Can you tell a bit about the power limitation?
calvinyuenblinke 4 years ago
well if you multiply the Volts with amp you will get the Watts.
PlayLifeX 4 years ago
120v x...? 505??
calvinyuenblinke 4 years ago
230v x 1.5a= 345W
PlayLifeX 4 years ago
Well, it's 120v here.
calvinyuenblinke 4 years ago
what says on the back of your sub volts and amperes?
PlayLifeX 4 years ago
oh alright nvm, so what's the wrms for the Logitech Z-5450?
calvinyuenblinke 4 years ago
I don't know it, only the amps total power (315W), now true power sure is not superior to the z5500.
PlayLifeX 4 years ago
Its not surprising those sattelites have better sound quality than the Z5500 sattelites since they have 2 drivers and a tweeter too, so the high and mids will sounds better.
willhub 5 years ago
Sat are better and subwoofer does a nice job too pumping out very deep bass that our ears actually thinks that the bass comes all from the sat, and this is other thing that the z5500 can't do at least as good as the mx-5021. And I'm a owner of the two systems so I'm not being a fanboy or thing like that.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
Lol, i saw those on sale once for $100 cdn and i was almost going to get them but the nexy day i went back, they were sold out!
logitechsubs 5 years ago
I bought it for 209€ (+/- $210), the sub can't go as high as the z5500 but it pumps very deep and confortable bass; the satellites archive an awesome sound clarity and impressive high volumes without distortion, to give you an idea the 2 mx-5021 satellites are better than the 5 satellites of the z5500 pumping out sound together. mx-5021 sound like a true very expensive hi-fi system.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
Oh also, no PC speakers sound like a true Hi-Fi, i can gaurantee they wont sound anywere near as good as some nice B&W bookshelves or Floorstands, and i cant see the 2 speskers pump out more SPL than the Z5500 coz it has 5 3" drivers, all capable of high excursion for there size.
willhub 5 years ago
but actually the MX-5021 satellites are better than the z5500 satellites by far, since they had one tweeter and two midranges (one of them for mid/high and other for mid/low frequences) this satellites pump out more SPL without stressing the sound, z5500 sat stress to quickly. And this mx-5021 sound like a hi-fi and thats the reason they are very expensive for a 2.1 system with it's power (20W rms x2 and sub 50W rms).
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
No PC Speakers sound like Hi-Fi systems, i can gaurantee yours does not, i tell you now, your mx 5021 does not sound like any good bookshelve speakers, for one, the drivers in the sattelites are far too small, and the tweeter only makes it perform better on highes than the z5500 as all a tweeter does is the highers.
willhub 5 years ago
Also, really, return your Z5500's, they really dont stress at lower volume, these things get to super high volumes before they stress ears, infact i opened the windows, could hear the z5500 from 50 meters away, went abck to my room, no stressing, just too loud for normal listning.
willhub 5 years ago
the z5500 sat starts to get stressed at about >75%, and not a low volumes. But again a 3 way speaker is better than 1 way with a phase plug in the middle that simules a tweeter but it doesn't act like a real one. Most of the volume crazyness in the z5500 sat is provocated by the stressing factor, they are good, but it doesn't perform like mx-5021 in any kind of music.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
The Z5500 dont stress at high volumes, yours must be faulty, mine goes to 100% no problem, also the Z5500 sattelites are using higher quality and also go lower than the altec, (150hz for altec, 120hz for z5500), the drivers in the z5500 sattelites are also rated at only 12W RMS, so the wattage for the altec is also proberbly not true aswell, (z5500 sub really 70w rms)
willhub 5 years ago
where did you saw that specs from the z5500? I can go to the 100% with no prob, but for listening normal music (pop/rock)the sat don't distort but it sounds stressful, my mx-5021 stress too, but it only stress when volume is really focking high.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
Also, about watts, they dont mean anything at all, decent Hi-Fi speakers like real ones with 5" cones can do decent spl with only a few watts, most never reac there maximum wattage anyway. just think the drivers in the z5500 sats are rated at 12w rms, and how loud they go, just shows watts dont count.
willhub 5 years ago
For overall volume output the z5500 wins, because the subwoofer can get really higher, to tell you the true I think that z5500 sub can go more higher than the it's satellites. The altec lansing mx-5021 is not purposed for higher volumes, because it's subwoofer limits the overall volume, mx5021 sub to be on pair of the performance volume of it's satellites I need to put the sub at 1/5. Now for sound quality the mx-5021 is really fantastic I love them.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
I will upload soon a vid of the mx-5021 shaking everything in the room expecially doors. music is benny benassi - time.
PlayLifeX 5 years ago
well hell ya.. 90 rms watts..mine isonly 70 :( THE SUBWOOFER IS ONLY 25 freaking watts..and urs is 50..but my 5 speakers are total of 45 watts...
calvinyuen115 5 years ago
damn didnt know it was thx certified. im jealous..congratualations on ur FIRST VIDEO lol..whats the song called? seems like some amazing bass.
calvinyuen115 5 years ago