Do you remember when you bought your first home computer? I can. Although I had used mainframe terminals, Unix workstations and PC’s for many years at work, I finally bought my first home PC in 1996. Today the specs seem to be completely laughable, it was a 75hz Pentium, with something like 8 Mb of memory and a huge 1GB hard drive! It was badged as a multimedia workstation which meant I got a CD drive, a microphone and a set of speakers bundled in. Over the years I upgraded it as much as possible and it was only finally retired a couple of years ago, so I got my moneys worth out of it. I was also still using those speakers, or least until recently.  While sorting out my cable night mare at home I realised that only one of the two speaker unit was working!

New speakers required

So now I am on the look out for a new set of speakers. My main requirement is, as always, the best possible performance for the best price. So I have been having a good look at what is out there, and a couple of speakers sets have caught my eye. First off, is this Altec Lansing VS4121 2.1 Speaker System, pictured left, which has a lot of great reviews, looks OK and comes at a very reasonable price. An alternative which I am considering is the Philips MMS321 Multimedia Stereo Speakers pictured above, which because there is no sub woofer use less real estate. These also look great, and have great reviews. Decisions, decisions!

Any recommendations for speaker systems?