Personal Sound Never Looked So Classic: The Altec Lansing Orbit

Altec Lansing has become a classic name in the audio industry as they've grown with a stunning speed and kept on producing great things, as well as continuously innovating, much to our pleasure and comfort. It's time to greet the oncoming "pocket marvel", codename Orbit.

The Altec Lansing Orbit is as simple as possible: a speaker and a small amplifier, running on batteries and being able to receive audio signal via a mini jack cable from portable media players such as an iPod or any other MP3 player as well as from mobile phones.

You could say that there is nothing that fancy about the Orbit... indeed, there was no shocking feature to leave you with staring eyes and mumbling unintelligible words. But everything there is to the Altec Lansing Orbit screams neat design and careful manufacturing according to the highest standards of the industry.

One of the cool things about the Altec Lansing Orbit is its rugged make, ensuring this small speaker will remain in full working condition even when owned by the "most intrepid traveler". I'm not saying it's like a G-Shock but this one is definitely stronger and better-built than the vast majority of other similar systems available at the moment on sale.

Secondly, the Altec Lansing Orbit runs with batteries and so do most mobile speaker systems like it. What others can barely dream about is the Orbit's battery life, spanning to 24 hours, as Altec Lansing themselves spec. Now, it looks like things are becoming more interesting, don't they? This unit can lean on an edge for a more personal listening and increased directivity, while the custom driver inside it offers exceptional 360-degree spread.

The Altec Lansing Orbit will be available quite soon, as the official release date was announced in October. The price forwarded by the manufacturer is a pretty decent one, $39.95. Of course the street price is most likely to be a tad lower.

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