Altec Lansing GT5051

91% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Space-saving design.

Mediocre sound quality; no digital audio inputs; less than ergonomic hardware controls; expensive.

Altec Lansing's GT5051 delivers discrete 5.1-channel surround sound with just two satellites speakers, a center speaker, and a subwoofer, but you sacrifice performance for the sake of compact design.

The side firing tech is nice considering you get the simplicity of 3.1... sorta convincing... best to think of it as sound expanding then surround sound

The first 6 months I had these they were used off my realtek mobo 6.1 audio... the sound was quite muddy...i upgraded to an xfi card and was somewhat worried that the muddy sound would still be there but no. So these speakers do have potential... sound...

Very crisp and very clear sound ; Saves some room, and less cables running around

Maybe the sub is a little too discret ; I am not 100% sold out by the Side Firing Dipole Surround Technology, but the result is not too bad I guess, since the rear speakers are in front of you

clean and clear sound ; compact ; high quality

too small of a subwoofer ; no remote ; side firing needs some improvement(yes they're placed right)

Very Nice System. I have a triangle shape PC table in corner of my room and this system works like a charm., eflecting sound from walls as rear speakers. Sound quality is awesome with very High pitch

None really. Only not 100% replacement of 5.1 surround system but still good