I was bought these speakers when I bought my iPod 4th Generation about 4 years ago. This set of speakers is still in my room and I still occasionally use them. Despite having them for a fairly long period of time and considering that speakers notoriously break or degrade in sound quality over year, I am very impressed with how the sound is as good as the day I got the speakers. I do use other speakers now and admittedly the quality from these newer ones is slightly better than the Altec Lansing ones, but with 4 years worth of technology advances, I would expect them to be. The build quality of the speakers is pretty good. it is solid enough fro me ...  Read the complete review

I received these speakers as a Christmas gift to use with my first iPod in 2004 - and am using them with my third iPod today. Furthermore, the sound quality is just as good as it was when I first plugged them in. I sought these speakers specifically as they were portable; I have been living between the States and the UK for the past five years, and the speakers are light enough to pack up and bring back and forth with me. The small size in no way sacrifices volume, however; I often turn the volume up loud enough to hear it in the shower, and suffer from no distortions to the sound quality. I think the most impressive thing about these speakers, however, is their ...  Read the complete review