Altec VS4121, got loud bass, if u like bass and only bass then it's the one

Bass Quality = Okok, if room is very empty or small, bass become high tone and boomy. The bass is rather "loose", it will sound loud and slightly to the lower end (50Hz) but you wont be able to feel the punch. Its more like cinema bass, loud but you body cannot feel the "shake." Not suitable for certain types of music. Below 40Hz hard to hear even spec says 25Hz lowest.
Bass Quantity = A lot

Mid Quality = Not good, very thin sounding, not warm and full
Mid Quantity = Less

Treble Quality = Not so good, a bit harsh/grainy, cant give good "air" feeling.
Treble Quantity = Normal

Soundstage = Weak. Instrument Spacing/Stereo is rubbish. Sounds very "computerized/clinical" But the soundstage sounds big around 2000-8000Hz but sounds harsh/sweet, good for rave/techno songs.

Vocal Quality = Weak. Thin vocal, not full and warm...hard to catch what singer is saying without seeing lyrics most of the times.
Vocal Soundstage = Weak. Cannot hear the vocal echo/ambient properly, sounds fake. Voice sounds coming out from the speaker cone, not in the center like high end speaker....

Tone Balance = Hard to find correct/perfect settings with bass and treble control, will have to change settings from type of song to song. The speaker's design itself make its hard to get good tone due to it's driver placement (down firing midrange).

Frequency respond

25-40Hz rubbish, they should have stop at 40hz, sometime music with alot of very low bass can make the woofer bottom out and have "knocking" sound, the woofer cone vibrate alot, but no sound come out. ==
40-60Hz good
60-120Hz ok
125-250Hz not consistent, depend on your room, it might make this part totally soft or can be overwhelmingly loud
250-400Hz bad, due to driver placement, the warm and full sound is gone
400-800Hz slightly low in volume in this region
800-2000Hz weak, makes music sound thin
2000-8000Hz okay, quite balanced and soundstage is biggest here
8000-10000Hz okay, just that it sound grainy
10000Hz-12000Hz bad, it seem that this part has some eq which make its louder in the mix, makes it hard to balance the low-high frequency coordination.
12000-160000 okay, just that it sound grainy
after that the speaker cant really produce anything higher than that frequency

i own a 4121 in the past so i know how it sounds like, Z4 i audition before, but cannot give it comments because i did not listen it enough to catch all the details, but i can say the sound signature/shape is something like 4121, just that the woofer dont bottom out easily, Bass Quality = Better but Quantity= Less. get what i mean? Basically Z4 will have better quality sound in most area where 4121 is weak in but it cant go as loud as 4121

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Jun 18 2009, 03:30 PM