Hot 5.1 Speaker deal?

[salfter]

Originally posted by: OulOat
Why are you still living in FAR? As the name implies, it's far as hell from everything... except the cows.

I spent only one year at Illinois ('89-'90)...spent too much time dialed up and fooling around with the Internet, especially during spring semester, so I ended up not returning the next year. (I had gotten a 2400-bps internal modem for my IIe that Christmas, so I didn't have to go down to the labs in the basement. The 7-hour-per-week time limit on uxa sucked, but you only had to ask for an unlimited-usage account on mrcnext for that to no longer be a problem.) I spent that year in Oglesby Hall (room 712 IIRC, one of the triples)...took forever to get anywhere on campus from there. I don't recall the cow smell being too bad, at least not most of the time.

<old-geezer>

29 Mb/s? Try doing your homework over a 2400-bps dialup and get back to me about the speed problem.

</old-geezer>

 

[jbserra]

I got the Altec 251 's from the cheapest place on PriceGrabber ($76 shipped) and was impressed with the what you get for the money. The cases are nice and the subwoofer is in a pretty large case (which might be a disadvantage I guess). I haven't fully tested them, but I think they're a little weak in the middle range. I'm hoping to use some sort of EQ to pull more midrange out, but we'll see. Any other review of these speakers out there?