Recent years have seen a massive increase in the home cinema side of things and in the all-in-one system. Bose offer exactly this, a stylish all-in-one system that does sound quite good for movies and gaming and thats why they sell well.
It's only the more audiophile types that can really pick them apart, which sadly becomes even easier to do when you try and play music on this HT system. For music the bass unit just doesnt know what its doing, one minute its thumping its brains out during an acoustic guitar solo and the next its goes all quiet during some music that really should have a heavy beat, and when that happens the small cubes really sound bad and that started to grate on me after a while.
I'd only reccomend them as a HT system and then only really if you couldnt be bothered with choosing your own setup etc. All of this of course is just my oppinion, but I'd consider it a fair one from someone who has actually owned the kit and lived with it for a time. Moonfly - you said it all in your first paragraph I myself am not a Bose fan - i wouldn't buy Bose, but i can appreciate why people buy it and want it, which is far more than most people can do.
Bose are good, dont knock it! Helicon said:. Multi-room audio. Can you explain what multi room is please? I like bose stuff, but not at the price it sells for. At school I was fortunate enough to be able to work with their professional gear, the setup provided consisted of 8mk2 speakers and 4 of the bass bins which sat underneath, it sounded absolutely amazing, although bang for buck if it was me I would choose Peavey HISYS equipment over Bose. I have a soft spot for Bose because when I was younger, I used to go to Center Parcs where again like another poster has said, they use or at least used to before it caught fire Bose speaker systems all over the place and I twinned the atmosphere with that name.
The first PA system I heard in my life consisted of Bose s and the astonishing Bose Accoustic Wave Canon - a subwoofer which actually does look like a cannon - google it! The home systems are interesting and I enjoy them, but they seem very..
It's nothing to do with the materials they use either - people sometimes mock Bose for using paper cones, but i've heard many speaker systems which use paper cones and indeed surrounds which sound sublime. Not to take anything away from your story, but the Bose is an absolutely disgusting loudspeaker and they all should be melted down plastic though they are It's the kid in me mate - blame Center Parcs.
I have a Bose Acoustimass 10 bass with two double cube and a centre speaker and two single speakers on the back wall which are commercial units. All bought individually on Ebay and it sounds excellent with the tv. What Bose speakers are doing in pubs, clubs, etc. That's important in a commercial environment. In my living room I don't give a damn if there's a dead spot near the bay window or beside the bookcase I puit that in to make me look intellectual, actually I haven't even finished colouring most of them.
I want to sit on the sofa and listen to music. I've never listened to Bose in a domestic setting smart term for somebody's living room but it appears from the comments here that they don't do that very well! It's a nice name and logo though so that'll sell a few too SirDoss Active Member. I totally disagree with the Bose are bad label. I'm no audiophile, I just like listening to a good sound.
I originally went for the bose speakers for 2 reasons. Firstly a friend of mine who is into his hi-fi gear bought a pair of Acoustimass 3's. He's always had a brilliant setup and he was replacing his very large, old speakers can't remember what they were but they were the oddest looking things I've ever seen.
Apparently he spent a small fortune on these old speakers back in the 70's and they sounded phenominal but his wife had had enough of them looking ghastly in the living room. He tried plenty of floorstanders in a local hi fi shop but just wasn't happy with the sound in the price range he was looking at.
He tried the Bose, was really happy with their sound and bought them. I had a listen to them and indeed I thought they sounded spectacular. Secondly, my wife decided that she wanted my bookshelf speakers out of the way. Now I would have fought her on this as I love my hi-fi and would not have shifted but I remembered how I liked the sound of my friends Bose.
So I went out and bought the Ac. They sound great. Everytime someone comes round they comment on the sound. The sound fills the room and is crystal clear, that is what I want, plus my wife is happy as they are small and neat. I must add that having heard a few other hi fi setups in various houses, I still always prefer mine.
I was really suprised when I first came across the negative comments about Bose as I really feel I have a great set of speakers. I mentioned it to my mate one day and he reckons it's just hi fi snobbery. Is this so? It is common to find audiophile forums discussing and bashing Bose for not publicly displaying speaker specifications on product listings.
Some people see this lack of transparency as a sign of distrust, and that is totally understandable. The problem audiophiles have with this is, there are many audio brands in the market much better sound quality.
And yet, they often cost less than something similar made by Bose. Thus, audiophiles generally hold a strong opinion that Bose products are not worth it for the money when considering absolute audio quality.
So you may be wondering… If Bose is so bad, then why are their products so expensive? The answer is right in front of us. Bose pours a ton of money into advertising, marketing, and visual style. Similar to Beats, Bose has also been accused of selling inferior quality products at an extremely high price because consumers are essentially paying a premium for the brand.
While an average person may find Bose to be amazing, Audiophiles beg to differ. So we know that people will pay a premium for Bose products because they give off a high quality, sophisticated vibe. This causes some consumers to feel like they have become part of the audiophile community when they actually have little to no understanding of what it means.
This is perhaps the most significant contributing reason why audiophiles hate Bose; when in fact, Bose is hardly at fault for this. This is just a byproduct of the popular advertising formats companies tend to use nowadays.
When a company partners with high profile celebrities or luxury airline companies to promote a product. Nor, for that matter, have they used really beefy or inch woofers in any of their home speakers or music systems. Most of their drivers for domestic music or TV sound tend to be small woofers less than 6-inch and small wide-range cone drivers that cover the mid and highs, up to around 13kHz or so.
Nevertheless, Bose hits their target market squarely—the general audio customer—and Bose owners love their equipment. Bose Retail Store - usually integrated into an upscale shopping mall. Another thing Bose did was to establish a very strong, high-profile online sales presence. Almost all Bose products are available online directly from Bose, as well as through Bose stores. Bose controls the puppet strings. When you think of it, the way Bose markets and sells is not unlike the way Apple does—though their own company stores with their own salespeople, through select retail partners—both physical and online—and directly from the company through their own e-commerce sites.
As an aside, they are a great customer service company. I was there when they put a shipping hold on a brand-new product their very first Lifestyle Music System right at the height of the Christmas season because there was a very small percentage of units that had a possible QC issue. Very small. Nothing, of course.
It happens on both sides. The Electoral vs. A very good one. If winning the national popular vote was the goal, then political candidates would run completely different campaigns, with completely different strategies and advertising. But if they could turn out an additional few million votes, it would make a huge difference in the national vote totals.
Same thing goes in Texas. The Democrat candidate would run a completely different kind of campaign to bring out as many Democratic voters as they could in Texas. Even for value, performance-for-the-dollar. While most audiophiles take sheer, utter delight and satisfaction in the supposed knowledge that their chosen assemblage of audio components from their favorite boutique manufacturers far outperforms any Bose speaker or complete system, Bose shrugs.
Bose cannot be criticized for not winning a game they choose not to play. Steve Feinstein is a long-time consumer electronics professional, with extended tenures at Panasonic, Boston Acoustics and Atlantic Technology. He has authored historical and educational articles for us as well as occasional loudspeaker reviews. Confused about what AV Gear to buy or how to set it up? Bose: Speaker or Garbage Can?
The AM-5 showed the speaker industry how a subwoofer-satellite system could make a home theater system feasible. Bose established unilateral pricing to maintain dealer profitability and to avoid mistakes over-distribution made by other companies. Bose targeted the casual audio consumer About the author: Steve Feinstein is a long-time consumer electronics professional, with extended tenures at Panasonic, Boston Acoustics and Atlantic Technology.
View full profile. Read the Complete Thread. I enjoyed reading this article, a nice trip down memory lane. I held off buying any Bose products for years even though I was impressed and attracted to the sound and form factor of the Bose products.
I kept reading so much hate about Bose products I was swayed. Over time though I started buying Bose products despite all the negative comments, which started to wain in later years. After almost ten years with a Yamaha receiver and BD player, a Samsung plasma tv and full 5. So did my wife. After trying a Yamaha sound bar I settled on a Cinemate bar with Soundtouch. I purposely tried the system without rear speakers in an attempt to soften the rear stage via the speaker bars phase guides speakers.
I still have that setup today seven years later. I have also built out my home speaker network after trialling a number of wireless speakers including B and W. Bose SoundTouch did the job I have music in pretty much every room. I remain very happy with my Bose products. I have always been very happy with the sound. Inversely, how many high quality accurate speakers with great imaging and good dispersion characteristics, with a good subwoofer blended in, have you owned and set up correctly in your home?
William Lemmerhirt posts on July 18, For ME. Sorry, I poor Bose kool-aid down the sink whenever I can. Audiophiles are into specifications on paper.
The 's are all about the experience of enjoying being immersed in sound and not just from two points in front of you. Most of us here prefer accurate speakers. The s don't even try to be accurate. I have a pair of speakers that fill the room very nicely and have a huge soundstage. They have excellent dispersion characteristics and most importantly, they're accurate and clean sounding speakers.
Honestly I wouldn't even want the s in my garage. Sleqzypig, post: , member: Honestly Bose bookshelf speakers are not about audio quality at all.
This is why audiophiles dislike them so much. The primary thing Bose goes for in their bookshelves is to fill a room with background sound so you can listened to spotify while vacuuming the rugs or folding clothes. For that they do their job well as these things are bouncing sound off the walls. But for those of us that give a dam about audio quality the trade off of less direct sound isn't worth it.
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