Speakers: all-time worst

I dont know why you are all beating up on Bose. I heard the Acoustimass system last week at a well known chain electronics retailer and was stunned!!! Their purity of tone and bloomy sound stage really was quite special. The presentation was open,airy and detailed without even the mearest hint of the grain or boxiness associated with lesser speakers. Highly recommended and dare I say a contender for class A (Restricted LF)...... OK only joking. These speakers are complete and utter crap! And they ain't cheap!

I dont know why you are all beating up on Bose. I heard the Acoustimass system last week at a well known chain electronics retailer and was stunned!!! Their purity of tone and bloomy sound stage really was quite special. The presentation was open,airy and detailed without even the mearest hint of the grain or boxiness associated with lesser speakers. Highly recommended and dare I say a contender for class A (Restricted LF)...... OK only joking. These speakers are complete and utter crap! And they ain't cheap!

I just don't know why those aweful speakers have such a big market. People only know about bose and JBL. I live in Canada, and the biggest electronic franchise here is FutureShop, they have stores all from Halifax to Victoria. The main speaker stream they carring are JBL, Bose, and Polk. Polk is OK when you look at other two.

The Carver "Amazing Loudspeaker" was a terrible value. $1500 (in the mid '80s) for piss-poor performance. Speaking of Bose... at a (college) party a number of years ago the host was blasting his little Bose 201s. Someone who had a little too much to drink took a knife and stabbed the tweeter of one of the 201s, completetly mangling it. Net result, no audible difference!

c'mon, Bose is an incredible musical instrument when compared to Cerwin-Vega, the all time worst box to ever be marketed, anywhere, at any time.