if you only want woofer, booomy, and muddy.. go for VS4121. the king of muddy.

else if you want a little bit more balance drive. go for mx5021.
no point getting GMX. imho. the GMX has everythings great. but except the low cost paper cone driver, potentiometer, and the super narrow sound stage,
it's excellent for blassing though. but i just don't quite like how it sound. just personal taste. =) it sound like a car audio to me.

the old school altec lansing are built for cinema / home theather. their old floor stander like "santana" still owned by some person and still love it until today. =)
in USA, midland has their own car team to carry speaker. but altec lansing around 10 plus years ago has their own plane team to carry and deliver their speaker. no doubt., they did successfull once last time.

well as their main designer left altec lansing they produce crap mainly. i didn't deny it.
what is my point is. klipsch is famous for their speaker long time ago. so do altec lansing.
and klipsch now also producing somethings good for cinema speaker.but undenyable somethings bad. so as altec lansing. i stay neutral in this case not offending or protecting any brand. =)
just to share somethings i had read, or nostalgia you call.
i am pretty sure there's bunch of people hate Mx5021. and also another bunch of people hate klipsch GMX. and some even call call it as a joke.
as a so call big and famous company produce somethings with imbalance sound at low volume... what you call it?
=) i myself feel pretty annoying for that. they can add another couple bucks, to buy a better pot. they just don't wanna do it.

anyway. threadstarter had got himself a GMX.


by the way. i compared mx5021 with AEGO M .
MX5021 in shop(The mines, E-Lite Computer Shop) VS AEGO M in my room.
source. creative ZEN Micro.
mp3 rip from CD 320 KbPS.
cable = 9" canare L-4E6S with normal gold plug.

over impression.... (ps test is not conduct A/B)
altec lansing overall quite ok. treble is nice. not too sharp in my ear. bass is tight.
but sound stage is much more narrow than the AEGO.
and i found the lower mid of altec is some how stronger compare to AEGO M.
BASS. AEGO M bass is shaking. and relatively DEEP compare to altec lansing. altec lansing produce a lot of hard bass. which i guess the resonance point for the woofer box is tune at around 60-70 hz.

while aego M in room. is kinda deep...
as i said. it's in room. sure much deeper.
besides the environment factor. i guess
AEGO M is much more woth to take. i feel the performance is much more better.


This post has been edited by PcWork: Sep 18 2006, 07:18 PM

1. yes. both play from my zen player. same album same song.
Josh Groban First Album - Josh Groban ,
Track 3. You're Still You

Josh Groban 2nd Album -
Track 5 . When You Say You Love Me.
This two track i listen a few time.
got other song. those blassing bass one...

2. well.. it's like it is clear. but some times, when the song "memang" have a lot of treble there. mx5021 tend to "poke" my ear a bit... sort of unconfortable with the level of treble. but with proper positioning. that can be slove.

3. lower mid. where those male singer with low vocal, will sound actually thicker in mx5021. but IMHO quite muffle compare to AM.

4. those bass like "bam bam bam"... higher HZ ,, or i should call it mid bass.. =P
aego is like "Doooom"
my room has reflective wall, very small. but some minor treatment done, like stick some sponge. use tennis ball as a stand for my woofer... eg.
the MX5021 is placed on rack, at open space. with carpet.
their rack has many layer. so i put the satelite on the rack which is same level as my ear. distance is 1.5M. and woofer on floor, side to wall.
that's best i can do. else the shop ppl will kill me for messing around with their speaker.


ps: all the sound comparison is some how based on my impression. after i heard MX. i go home straight away to listen to AEGO..
PS: silon. perhaps the reason u and i have different opinion with AM is because i changed the stock cable to Canare L-4E6S the first day i got it. not sure L-4E6S is better or not. but my fren, anand__2 which also using canare cable for his AEGO M claim that there's a different.
as for myself. i didnt really try to listen to the stock cable. but in my impression i though it is some how quite similar to canare.

conclusion : sound of mx5021 is particular very ok for a computer speaker. perhaps. IMHO it's much better than GMX. watching movie (FF;advent children, Demo) is so nice. and i guess that's why it has a THX over it. everythings well controled. sound stage is some how narrow compare to AM. it's like firing the song direct to your ear. no atmosphere. and close your eye. you can point where the sat is... and this problems comes with every multimedia speaker i ever heard. including GMX (super narrow sound stage)
but for multimedia speaker Mx5021 has the best sound stage i ever heard.
AM. while comparing it to MX, i can feel that AM is slightly "not so aggresive" sound compare to mx. so meaning it can play song loud, yet you can relax. but when comes to movie, i think people prefer mx5021 which can blass until the floor is shaking... (trust me AM in my room shake my floor too, with bass =1 )

if my MAX budget is RM 550, i will definately take MX5021. =) well. i said "I" prefef how mx sound. no offend to GMX lovers.


This post has been edited by PcWork: Sep 18 2006, 08:56 PM

i feel MX5021 some how emphasis on lower mid. it's like the satelite and woofer both playing the lowermid... making it very very thick.. and some how quite muffle.. as the woofer is mono, and the midrange is "terkacau" AM also have sort of problems. but not as serious as mx. if i choose a describ to sound of MX. it will be like going through slight V shaped EQ.where the lowest point is upper mid.

sound before/ after recable of AM. will need to check back, hear it for longer periods then i update with you. this few days kinda busy for exam + assignment.

a female singer voice is some how not as smooth as AM especially when the singer sing louder... it's like got "spike" along the spectrum , and not smooth.

i say this is kinda mx is a bad speaker, infact, it still quite impressive. at least i give it higest ranking among all computer speaker i ever heard. it is bad when compare to AM , according to my song, my taste, under the specific testing environment. =)


This post has been edited by PcWork: Sep 18 2006, 09:22 PM

silon. now in rush. will read ur post back and reply soon. perhaps tomorrow

good choise... IMHO MX5021 is pretty decent.

silon about twin drive part. it make the mid range spread wider... and some placed need power, like suddent loud, it handel pretty well.....
will think back and tell u what's different.

about why i got 2 X mp220. i have to admit i some how enjoy it's mid range. when i doing soldering cable /study, i will use it to play some vocal heavy song, classical, musical . and i quite enjoy it.
and i buy another set to keep. =)
and i am a note book user. so i get portable speaker. As simple as that =)

This post has been edited by PcWork: Sep 20 2006, 10:34 AM

by the way. i think... with the treble and bass level set to neutral at MX5021. the horn isn't colouring the sound quite much. and IMHO, as bright as ATP3. but slightly over power... very slightly. if can custom replace the caps inside the tweeter to tame it down. should be perfect. some how i quite like the twin drive mid range. it provide power compare to singel drive. where it can pump out some sound all in suddent... and can feel the power. especially when plucking the guitar string, it can feel how hard the people plug it. ( of course, AM also can hear =P)
and it's less distortion compare to singel drive. (1 drive lawan 2 drive, sure 2 drive win) some more. when compare to bigger driver speaker. the 2 X 3 " did provide more detail sound, i believe smaller drive can move faster in this case.
so twin drive i assume it can provide some detail than single bigger drive, and also provide louder sound than singel drive which is same size.


but most of the time, if the person really used to the song, and love how the song sound like on his own systems. when he test it out on different speaker, he can immediately tells the different, as he always listen to the same song, and got strong memory about the song. and how it should sound like... in my case. if i don't like the speaker from first listening, i won't change much. i already make my self try to accept GMX and some model of edifier before i buy AM. (to save some money). but after all. i rather use back my old model altec lansing ACS295. or else i buy those i really like. i can't force my self, or persuate myself to love some sound. as least i can't accept GMX for almost 2 years arleady. tried time to time once i have chances, either in shop, or my fren unit.


THX is certified by lucas film that the speaker are capable to produce some effect accroding to what they want when they record the sound signal. do some search on google or wikipedia. there's a lot regarding this, and very detail explaination.
PS : BOTH MX5021 and GMXa 2.1 are THX certified.
and THX isn't everythings about good sound. =) there's tons of non thx certified speaker might sound better than those with THX.

nah. it's investment...

well different taste.. =)
i personally can't accept all edifier. except mp220. =P
taste problem.


silon. about the detail of the MX5021 is not compare agains AEGO M. =P
it's compare to normal drive.
but AEGO M is extra ordinary case where singel drive has more detail then twin drive.
sorry for confuse.