{"id":963,"date":"2007-12-17T23:16:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T23:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/12\/not-blown-away-as-altec-lansing-goes-into-orbit.htm"},"modified":"2007-12-17T23:29:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T23:29:54","slug":"not-blown-away-as-altec-lansing-goes-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/12\/not-blown-away-as-altec-lansing-goes-into-orbit.htm","title":{"rendered":"Not blown away as Altec Lansing goes into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just over a year ago, I bought an iPod speaker system from Altec Lansing<\/a>. Easily as good as the Apple equivalent (and at less than half the price), I’ve been really pleased with them, so when Altec Lansing<\/a>‘s public relations team got in touch and asked if I’d be interested in a new portable speaker for review, I was pleased.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my pleasure didn’t last too long once I received the speaker (yes, singular). You see, I’m now in the second half of my thirties… closer to 40 than to 30 and I have two kids, so I guess I’m entitled to be a grumpy old man. I find it offensive when people (generally teenagers) walk around playing their music on their phones or other portable devices through poor quality, low powered speakers and can’t help thinking that at least in my day I had a “ghettoblaster” the size of a large piece of luggage to annoy people with my idea of good music (I won’t embarrass myself by divulging any further details…). What’s that got to do with the iM207 speaker (also known as the Orbit)<\/a> that Altec Lansing sent me? Well, quite a lot as it happens as I’ve had my Orbit for a couple of weeks now and I have been trying to think of something good to write about it:<\/p>\n