A Review of Altec Lansing FX3022: Two Beauties on Your Desktop

The FX3022 give resemblance of two black towers standing tall on your desk. The speakers are lustrous and have a jutting cylin­der-like shape.

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I turned on the speakers to test if they were any good. My first impression was that they aren't very loud but if you need a decent set of speaker on your desk, it's more than enough. The bass couldn’t impress me the way I had thought it would; rather I was a little disappointed. Another observation I made was that the down firing bass units required a solid surface to sit on and can be kept on the ground but then you need to be sit­ting at the same level to lis­ten to them. This 25 watts speaker set has a frequency range that starts from 40 Hz which is a little higher than most speakers available in markets today. Also, the higher ­end range is crested to around 16 KHz. I was unable to find any extreme low bass and you can say it is almost non-exis­tent in these speakers. The only bass you get is from the harder drums and that too is absorbed by the table. Although, the other frequencies sound alright and I couldn’t find any dis­tortion at all even with the volume set to maximum. The only shrill distortion that I could hear was with songs having high pitched vocals. Otherwise, the sound is very bright and detailed.

For a speaker set without a dedicated subwoofer, the price of USD 214.95 is quite a lot. The old Altec Lansing MX5021 is a better choice as it is a lot more powerful and better sound­ing set of speakers, and quite fairly priced too.

Don't expect ground rumbling power, but if you want to have something that looks out of the world and makes your desk look ravishing and picturesque, then the FX3022 is a good choice.