Altec Lansing ADA890 Dolby Digital Computer Speakers (5-Piece)

by Altec Lansing

Product Details

Product Manual [420kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 34.6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005QIPL
• Item model number: ADA890
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

Product Description

Change the way you hear your favorite games and music with Altec Lansing's powerful ADA890 5-speaker setup. The ADA890 setup delivers crisp, strong sound for music, gaming, and home entertainment.

Featuring a total RMS output of 120 watts, the ADA890 comes with 4 connectible satellite speakers and an 8-inch, 60-watt subwoofer. With this combination of speakers, a frequency response of 27 Hz to 20 kHz is achieved, excellently reproducing both treble and bass effects. Each pair of front and rear satellite speakers can be connected or detached for convenient placement and sound immersion. Each satellite is rated at 15-watts RMS power.

Easily connect to your favorite portable audio player, PC, or other device with an available 3.5-millimeter headphone or line-out jack or left and right RCA outputs. The ADA890 system is also compatible with Sony PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles.

Altec Lansing covers this product for 1 year.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Little tweaking and you'll get the sound you want. Best!!!, January 4, 2004

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"asadovfarruh" (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Altec Lansing ADA890 Dolby Digital Computer Speakers (5-Piece) (Personal Computers)

Midrange and highs and very clean and crisp. Bass is also very clean and deep.
But I was not satisfied with bass at first. It was too low at low volumes, even with bass volume set at max. I tried to increase the bass using the equaliser that is built into mp3 player, but it distorted the music, it was distorted even at lowest volumes and it was distorted with othe speakers that I tried, so I concluded that it must be the soft equaliser that is messing things up. I was diappointed about it at first, I even went as far as ordering stand alone equaliser. But couple days later I found the solution to this problem. It turned out that (on mp3 player equaliser) you should leave the bass lever where it is and turn down the rest of the levers to get distortionfree bass. Than crank up the volume on the speakers.After that, I did got much, much more distortion free bass than I needed. (prologic mode cranks up bass even further)
In fact I listened music for 5 minutes at 30% volume with bass set up as described above and my next door neghbour showd up complaining about music.
I never even plugged in stand alone equaliser that I recieved.
I am completely satisfied with these speakers now.
You can get these speaker for a total of $100 at yahoo shopping.
It is dirt cheap for this much clean sound.
(I did compared them to Klipsch promedia thx 2.1 and think that midrange is more present (or live) in ADA890 and bass also goes deeper (no wonder ADA890 has 8" bass driver vs 6.25" in Klipsch)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW - I'll never use another speaker again!, April 21, 2003

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"cmcgoey" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Altec Lansing ADA890 Dolby Digital Computer Speakers (5-Piece) (Personal Computers)

First of all, this system is A+++! I have had the system for a while, as I wanted to make sure I had a full listening experience before I wrote a review. The ADA890 makes my TV explode with sound. The dolby digital/THX is so realistic when I watch DVD's. It is great for games too, all of the little sounds you just can't hear with just your TV come alive.

I just wanted to share my great experience and kudos to Altec Lansing for making another superior product.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crystal Clear, January 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Altec Lansing ADA890 Dolby Digital Computer Speakers (5-Piece) (Personal Computers)

I feel like i am in the movie when i listen to them and the bass is solid and the highs and mids are perfect. Sounds like one o those 3,000 dollar bose systems