is bose any good?

[samson 10+ year member]

The link is filtered here so I can't view it but your description nailed it perfectly. The woofers were inside the speaker box, very clean look.

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Looks clean, sounds bad. They were widely received as the best speakers Bose ever made. Whoopty-freakin'-do. That's like saying the Pacer is the best car that AMC ever made or that the Royal Reds were the best amps that Pyramid ever made. I'd still take the bottom of the line Benz or DLS.

 

[samson 10+ year member]

Whatever. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[Jake95 10+ year member]

^^^ It's all about frame of reference. If all you've ever heard is a basic factory stereo, boomboxes and the typical home stereo, your basis of comparison is not that high. When placed alongside these things, the Bose systems sound pretty good.
For the average consumer, Bose is seen as high end. To somone looking for accurate audio reproduction, Bose is a four letter word. Not only is the source highly EQ'd, information is synthesized as well to get the psychoacoustic effect that they are after. This is exactly the opposite of accurate reproduction.

Here's a little test for you: Find a true high end home stereo shop. If the shop carries Bose, go elsewhere. Get a good CD of some sort that is well recorded, Dire Staits "Brothers in Arms" is a really good choice and listen to it on what you think is the best sounding system that you have access to. Get familiar with how it sounds on that system. Take that same CD to said high end store (dress well, jeans and a t-shirt won't get you in the door) and ask to demo some good speakers in the $3-5k price range (that's per speaker BTW). Realize that this will probably totally change your outlook on what sounds good and you will quickly be wanting to upgrade everything you own. If you aren't ready to do that, leave this experiment until later.

yeah, i totaly, agree, because i have alpine in my car, and i like the sound, but havent experienced many competition sounds, but like i said, for some daily tunes, bose sounds quite nice.