I’ve heard quite a few audiophile speakers that used expensive drivers in ways that...well, didn’t suit my taste. Quite a few speakers using Focal tweeters made me feel like that guy in the movie Seven Beauties who went to “better @@%%@!. Say what you want about Bose but a Bose speaker never made me want to leave the room.
Interesting comment on Bose Speakers.....
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from @steve59
I had a pair of 901vI hanging from the ceiling and a realistic receiver driving them and I was set, happy as I could be. My neighbor turned me on to real hifi and I was miserable for 30 years. I believe Amar Bose has made more people happy with his offerings than all Hi end offerings combined and there is a lot to be said for that. High end I believe fails at keeping a listener from skipping tracks because it cannot do what Amar Bose has done at the end of the day for audio. So many have walked from the hobby for this reason unlike Bose listeners and have gone back to good Mid Fi.
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So it was your room not the speakers.
Another reason so many audiophiles blame speakers when the room is the elephant. I can extract miraculous results with speakers that have been written off. I reccomend philes understand the room better. I can play a set of Bose 301's in a diffused/ absorbed treated room with tube buffer pre that goes against the speakers recs with a Carver M500t and simple NAD pre that has other philes impressed and its not insincere. There is a wonderful overlooked world of rotating sets of speakers with various electronics and room treatment that negates in many cases judgement on equipmemt. |
Shtinky it was your room then. In the spirit of a true audiophile I experiment. In one of my rooms treated with duffuser/absorbers from GIK and some home madetuned diffusers I have run a set of Bose 301 seriesV into a Carver M500t with a tube buffer pre between the amp and a Nad 7130 running as pre. Stteaming to an Arcam irdac.... Not all speakers get along with their electronics or house they live in. Until the Bashers hook up a set of some Bose speakers to their current electronics I wholeheartedly have to disagree with the bashers. I think they would be pleasantly surprised and embarassed.
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The high end association is overstated. Its just an owner of Bose who enjoys the sound. Lets get off the bandwagon of I am an audiophile and you are not because I do or dont own bose. On the cheap driver issue how do they achieve decent bass on the 301s I have in rotation? and a very simple Cab.... Hats off to Amar..... Who is more the fool then? The guy with 100,000 dollar speakers... Or the Bose purchase? |
I will put forth a value proposition for those that say they are overpriced junk.....use them for firewood ...Bose no highs no lows yadi yada... A contact of mine invests 20k in a system.... Martin Logan Electrostatic.... High end amp and so on ..... Contacts me asking for help.... Says he cant take it.....he cant play a Classic Rock song for beans... Stand up and the speakers are horrible.....people over to listen off axis just doesnt get it.... Then the Bose guy who plays all genres and loves them including his or her company. Overpriced? Really? At the end of the day I believe not. |
And so says the 911 driver.......lol
The premium Bose system in my 2010 911 is really mediocre sounding. The only people that think it sounds good don’t know anything about audio. Bose is a joke in audiophile community and no kind of praise can ever change that. There’s also no getting around the laws of physics. Cheap drivers, cheap cabinets, using resonances to make up for lack of deep bass.... This is the equivalent of someone coming onto a wine connoisseur site and claiming “my $4.99 jug of wine quenches one’s thirst as well as your expensive wine.” |
@emaillists
Since we are on the topic of recreational/ car audio I.......... My Vette I just sold had Bose....didnt matter you couldnt hear it. My Lexus Sc430 with its Mark Levinson system and CD playing is remarkable. The car is like sitting in at home..its that quiet . What has them all beat is my 04 Carver Yacht with an incredibly cheap Clarion Marine system. The speakers.....70 dollar Koss Marine are magic I can sit in the Salon and well those speakers disappear and the sound dances in air. Talking about using the "Room" and resonamces well I guess its the Hull and structure of the boat thats creating some kind of magic its the most easy to listen to and dynamic system I often wish for at home its pure joy. Contrary to what you might think Bose is not a joke in an audiophile community maybe your community not a true "Sonic Wonderer" Because thats what we do here we "Listen and Wonder". Your wine analogy leads me to believe your audio pursuits are in the same field. More dollars is better..... |