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Q: What is your opinion on BOSE speakers?

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Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Overpriced, Overrated. Kind of like Monster Cables. People thinkg they are great because that's what their marketing tells them. But they aren't worth the price.
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The difference is, Monster Cables actually perform well. They ARE over priced and marketed, but at least they perform WELL.

Bose cannot say the same
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haahahahahah perform well as opposed to what? Wiring your HT with dental floss?
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They are acutally pretty decent. If they cost the equivalent of normal "better than generic" stuff instead of twice that, they would be a good option.
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Reality is that they arn't any better performing. Monster cables perform as well as any run of the mill copper wire you can buy at home depot.

Ornery has a great post with a LOT of links that show monster cables do nothing more than any copper wire.
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You're mainly paying for build quality for cables. I think the build quality of monster warrants a price similar to stuff like acoustic research etc. at best buy/circuit city. I'm not saying they're anything special, but comparing them to dental floss is a bit extreme 🙂
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You're paying for placebo.
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Are you under the impression that I like monstercable?

I mean they're but together sturdier than the totally generic crap. They wont fall apart.... you can step on it and it's not going to crush anything... the connectors are well built...

If you could buy a 25' s-video cable made by monster for $15, it would be a good deal.

EDIT: In summary my point is they're not crap, they're just priced at least twice what they should be.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Decent quality, but not price competitive. I would not buy bose personally. I hate that they are in both of my cars, making speaker swaps very difficult, due to their asinine impedence setup.
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Yep, precisely why I made sure my Maxima didn't have the Bose crap in it when I bought it. My friend has an Infiniti G35 coupe and his car has Bose in it. He is pretty much screwed and cannot upgrade his HU because of that. He also has problems with it skipping CDs. A co-worker has Bose in his '04 Maxima and when playing CDs all the speakers on the right side of the car don't work. Nissan said they need to replace the HU but won't fix it under warranty. He's had a bunch of problems with that car though-mostly relating to the brakes.
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Tell your pal to call Nissan and report that dealer! They should cover that without question, unless he's over the mileage.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Overpriced, Overrated. Kind of like Monster Cables. People thinkg they are great because that's what their marketing tells them. But they aren't worth the price.
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The difference is, Monster Cables actually perform well. They ARE over priced and marketed, but at least they perform WELL.

Bose cannot say the same
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i am no cable guru, but I got an impression that when those people with R-10s and Blue Hawaii talk about Monster Cables, it gets worse than people ragging on Bose speakers. I am a type who believes in getting the most bang for buck and not going after 10% increase with 100% price, but I was never aware Monster Cables belonged in that 10% category.
 
funny how everyone says bose lacks highs and bass... they only hands on experience i had with any bose product was this car audio system in someone else's mercedes. i couldnt stop cringing at piercing highs and lack of smooth, lush mids - they werent even comparable to my diamond s2-4100 ('multimedia speakers' btw)
 
Polk? LOL they suffer from a lot of the same things that Bose do. FM modulation. You cannot expect a 5 1/4" driver to handle 80% of the music input's frequency range without high distortion at realistic listening levels. Nope, nada, ain't gonna happen. PERIOD!

Take the 901. 8 full range drivers facing backward, one toward the listener. LOTS of equalisation. These speakers for their size don't sound bad if you like to listen to Ray Connif (elevator music) or David Bowie in the background while you work.

Increase the volume and the distortion becomes very apparent. Of course most people run out of amplifier power in a hurry because of the crazy equalistation uses up all the available power in a real hurry. The speakers can handle a lot of power before blowing out. I remember we were able to get them to fall over from their pedalstals by playing the cannons from the 1812 through them - the EQ was bypassed and the amplifier was crossed over low - 45 Hz or so. The sound reminded me of when I used to put cherry bombs in 5gallon poly buckets. The voltage going to the speakers was over 275 volts according to the Sentinal. I miss those days. 🙂
 
You guys still going on about this? Most of the people here are talking out of their ass, much like everything else that's discussed here...just go to a nice hifi store (dunno how many you'll find with Bose and high-end products though) and compare.
 
I have a set of BOSE 201 bookshelf speakers.. while they sound good, after I added a subwoofer.. I think they are overpriced for what you get.
 
Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
Originally posted by: mobobuff
BOSE is to audio as Apple is to computers.
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Big, big difference there buddy. That statement is so far off base it's not even worth delving into.
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Roughly translated: "I don't like that statement, but I don't have any arguments to express why."
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
Originally posted by: mobobuff
BOSE is to audio as Apple is to computers.
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Big, big difference there buddy. That statement is so far off base it's not even worth delving into.
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Roughly translated: "I don't like that statement, but I don't have any arguments to express why."
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Hmmm, lets delve into it then so your thick skull can grasp it. Marketing wise, the statement may stand up. But I'd wager that Dell spends more on marketing each year than Apple, so perhaps Dell would be a better fit from a marketing angle.

Raw performance wise, the only area where Macs are at a significant disadvantage is games. While the overall hardware may be slower than PCs, haters tend to forget that overall speed is irrelevant if you forget to take into account the workflow that the OS allows for. Speed is a combination of raw hardware performance and os workflow pattern/apps available. So while the Mac may lack slightly in raw hardware performance, it has an app/os combination that in many respects makes up for a speed deficiency in hardware.

Your analogy falls apart when it is considered that Bose produces grossly overpriced, all around underperforming pieces of audio equipment held together solely by marketing. My above analysis shows that Apple is neither grossly overpriced (when the whole platform is taken into account - os/hardware combination) nor all around underperforming (again as a whole platform), nor held together solely by marketing (as their platform is fairly quality and others outmarket them).

Think before you post.
 
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
You guys still going on about this? Most of the people here are talking out of their ass, much like everything else that's discussed here...just go to a nice hifi store (dunno how many you'll find with Bose and high-end products though) and compare.
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I like reading the difference of opinion EvilYoda 😱
 
Monster Cable's OEM is Shaxon. The final product Monster sells is no different than most decent cable available for a fraction of the price. Then again you do get the nice shiny box to show off to your friends.
 
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