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Pimp Out Your Dorm Room!

by Switched Staff on August 9, 2007 at 08:57 AM

Altec Lansing FX4021 SpeakersAltec Lansing FX4021 Speakers

Oh no: Your new roommate is a hippie. Besides having to spend your summer earnings on a few oil drums worth of Febreze, that also means having to suffer through wall-to-wall rare Grateful Dead bootlegs for the four hours a day he's actually awake. That is, unless your sound system outplays his. Luckily, you arrived at college with the powerful, yet small and reasonably priced, Altec Lansing FX4021. Thanks to an extra input, the 2.1 system's two satellite speakers and subwoofer can be used not only as computer speakers, but also as a sound powerhouse for your iPod (or other media player). The bass on the FX4021 is surprisingly deep thanks to a dual driver that directs sound both up and down instead of just straight outward. And, it comes with two remote controls: One is wired to the system and is meant to sit on your desktop (it even has a built in headphones jack); the second is a wireless remote for controlling your sound assault from anywhere in the room. The FX4021 is officially priced at $129.95, but we've spotted it online for as cheap as $82.99 (as of this writing).


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