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Secret BOSE Technology Revealed.

WTF is a high definition speaker?

Is this another term like "digital ready" that was coined in the early 80's?

No wonder so many people swear by (or at hehe) those little acoustimess modules they have under the couch.

They should drill a hole in the box and mount a dowel through the couch so they can put a wiener on the end and sit on it while watching WOTW or something bASSy. :laugh:

Then again with the little bit of Xmech such blowes drivers possess it's probably likely to tickle the most upon sitting down especially if the wiener just came out of the meatbox cold. 😉
 
Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
Originally posted by: Kadarin
Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Bose is amazing.
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I've been seeing forum posts and hearing word of mouth that Bose sucked, but this is the first substantial thing on the subject that I've read that explains why. TY for posting this.
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yoyo had that in his sig for a while
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I ditched it when I replaced the space in my sig for my general audio thread heh
 
There's a How It's Made episode about speaker drivers somewhere on YouTube if you're interested in learning how it's really done. It was filmed at the Canadian pro audio manufacturer Belisle Acoustics, who makes their own drivers for their "Transparence" brand of pro audio speakers.

Some Bose models have their place. Recently when the Bose Acoustimass 3 speakers came down in price to $200, I bought a set as a curiosity - I suspect there may be rooms in my house where my wife won't let me put big floorstanders or massive standmounts, so I figure I'll be able to find a place for them. They're decidedly mid-fi, but not entirely unsatisfying. The Acoustimass 3 speakers don't do that direct-reflecting business, so they don't suffer from as much of that transient smear in the midrange and treble. Also without the direct/reflecting jazz, the single-cube speakers seem to produce the same sort of amazing stereo imaging that single-driver speakers are capable of. They do need a beefy receiver to drive them, though. I also have a set of Bose 141 speakers that I bought on eBay for my garage - they can take a pounding. I'm by no means a Bose apologist, but I'm just saying I've found applications where they can do decently. From a technical standpoint, though, I'm in agreement that there are very few Bose products worth buying.

One serious problem with Intellexual's report on the Acoustimass (which only covers Series II Acoustimass 15 systems), is that he doesn't take into account the summed response of the system. The 'hole' between 200 and 280 Hz is filled mostly by the cube speakers, and somewhat by the bass module. Now, the fact that the bass module operates up into this range makes it very placement-sensitive (firing across the front wall seems to work best), and it causes the midbass to sound slurred sometimes, but the accusation that there's a hole in the frequency response there just doesn't hold water.
 
Originally posted by: taterworks

One serious problem with Intellexual's report on the Acoustimass (which only covers Series II Acoustimass 15 systems), is that he doesn't take into account the summed response of the system. The 'hole' between 200 and 280 Hz is filled mostly by the cube speakers, and somewhat by the bass module. Now, the fact that the bass module operates up into this range makes it very placement-sensitive (firing across the front wall seems to work best), and it causes the midbass to sound slurred sometimes, but the accusation that there's a hole in the frequency response there just doesn't hold water.
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I totally agree with you (and posted something similar a long time ago in a different thread). I'm fine with people bashing Bose, but if you're going to go create a report trying to pick holes in their system, you shouldn't screw up something as simple as this. To me, it looks like a standard crossover area where the response would look pretty decent after the two are summed.

 
Originally posted by: taterworks
There's a How It's Made episode about speaker drivers somewhere on YouTube if you're interested in learning how it's really done. It was filmed at the Canadian pro audio manufacturer Belisle Acoustics, who makes their own drivers for their "Transparence" brand of pro audio speakers.

Some Bose models have their place. Recently when the Bose Acoustimass 3 speakers came down in price to $200, I bought a set as a curiosity - I suspect there may be rooms in my house where my wife won't let me put big floorstanders or massive standmounts, so I figure I'll be able to find a place for them. They're decidedly mid-fi, but not entirely unsatisfying. The Acoustimass 3 speakers don't do that direct-reflecting business, so they don't suffer from as much of that transient smear in the midrange and treble. Also without the direct/reflecting jazz, the single-cube speakers seem to produce the same sort of amazing stereo imaging that single-driver speakers are capable of. They do need a beefy receiver to drive them, though. I also have a set of Bose 141 speakers that I bought on eBay for my garage - they can take a pounding. I'm by no means a Bose apologist, but I'm just saying I've found applications where they can do decently. From a technical standpoint, though, I'm in agreement that there are very few Bose products worth buying.

One serious problem with Intellexual's report on the Acoustimass (which only covers Series II Acoustimass 15 systems), is that he doesn't take into account the summed response of the system. The 'hole' between 200 and 280 Hz is filled mostly by the cube speakers, and somewhat by the bass module. Now, the fact that the bass module operates up into this range makes it very placement-sensitive (firing across the front wall seems to work best), and it causes the midbass to sound slurred sometimes, but the accusation that there's a hole in the frequency response there just doesn't hold water.
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