The best one can authoritatively say is that a certain speaker delivers enough apparent cosmetic, sonic, and functional appeal to merit a given price tag.Īltec Lansing’s new Expressionist series multimedia speakers are an obvious effort by the company to move beyond sonic, price, and functional considerations into cosmetic ones. There are now hundreds, perhaps thousands of models released every year by companies both big and small, and it’s extremely difficult to draw any big picture, comparative conclusions about a given model’s performance relative to its price.
Unlike iPod and iPhone audio systems, computer speakers-multimedia speakers, to use the more common term-are only occasionally of interest to our editors.