Rear speakers for the Altec Lansing ACS48

[Neofitt]

Hi,

Does anyone have a set of Altec Lansing ACS48 2.1 speakers, paired with a set of rear ones of similar quality? If so, which ones?

I have an old set of ACS48s, great sound quality. I am also doing quite a bit of gaming, so back in the day I bought a pair of Altec Lansing VS2220 to act as rear speakers. But the sound quality is very different, the rear ones sound very "tinny". The immersion breaks quite a bit when a rather rich sound turns tinny when it moves from front to back. Now after many years I decided to finally do something about it .

I tried a Logitech Z506, a lot of reviewers said it had "good sound". The set gives me the exact same sound quality coming from all the speakers, but now I now have tinny coming from the rear AND front (and of course it didn't sound THAT bad at the store, with all the noise and huge open space, etc.). There are alternatives in the same price range like the Hercules XPS 5.1 70, the Genius SW-HF5.1 5050, the Sony SRS-D511 (with zero reviews for the latter two), but I am a bit wary of buying another set like that without a comparison.

I thought about getting another ACS48 set, turning the bass all the way down and plug them as rear speakers, but it is nowhere to be found, not even on ebay.

Getting another pair of different speakers might be the solution, but it should produce sound similar to the front ones. I know the AL VS2220 are not good for this job, so maybe someone has already found a good set of 2.0 speakers to act as rear speakers for the ACS48?

Thanks.

 

[Neofitt]

Nobody seems to care atm, nevertheless, in case anyone does a similar search in the future (since google wouldn't show me anything that compared the Logitech and Genius speakers, only some pricelists from India):

I finally bought a Genius SW-HF5.1 5050 v2. It is WAY better than the Logitech Z506, which went into its box and will be thrown out shortly. The Genius speakers are wooden, are using speaker cables, the ones with 2 naked conductors instead of the soldiered in RCA jacks that the Logitech are using. They are also quite larger in size, so beware. They are similar in sound quality to the Altec Lansing ACS48 I was using, but now I have the same quality of sound from both the front and the rear. I's days the price difference (120€ for the Genius set vs 70€ for the Logitech) is well worth it, and we are still in the low budget range as far as I'm concerned.