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Bose 321 Home Entertainment System
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MSRP:
$ 1349.00
Are you prepared for a ready-made source of transcendant experiences in front of the tube? The Bose®
Are you prepared for a ready-made source of transcendant experiences in front of the tube? The Bose® 3-2-1 GSX DVD home entertainment system delivers exciting home theater with greater simplicity and fewer wires. With just two Gemstone™ speakers (Bose's smallest, most powerful 3-2-1 speakers) and one hideaway Acoustimass® module, you get unbelievably life-like sound performance. Best of all, Bose's media center features their uMusic intelligent playback system, allowing you to digitally store up to 200 hours of music inside. Say goodbye to the clutter of CDs!
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Reviewed by:
sanjivn_2000
(Audio Enthusiast)
Review Date
August 16, 2009Overall Rating
 5 of 5
Value Rating
5 of 5
Used product for
Less than 1 month Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5,
3.00 votes
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Review 1 of 31
Price Paid:
$0.00 Summary:
The Bose GSM Home theatre series III is possibly the best audio system for 400 sq.feet of space money can possibly buy. It is the ultimate musical experience you can have at home or for a dance party in a room of the size as mentioned above. Costs Rs.84000 with stands but is fantastic. Shut your eyes to all other products and buy it. You will never regret it.
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Reviewed by:
Michel Aujmais
(Casual Listener)
Review Date
February 28, 2009Overall Rating
 1 of 5
Value Rating
1 of 5
Used product for
More than 1 year Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1.00 votes
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Review 2 of 31
Price Paid:
$0.00 Summary:
I've own that system for a little more than a year now and it turns out that the signal for the remote control in the media center doesn't work anymore. So I have to get up every time I want to change the source or to lower the volume. Since its not on warranty anymore (it expired 2 months ago) i'm a little bit desapointed considered the price I paid for that thing.
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Reviewed by:
Rob_L53
(AudioPhile)
Review Date
February 19, 2009Overall Rating
1 of 5
Value Rating
1 of 5
Used product for
3 Months to 1 year Visitors rate this review
4.25 of 5,
8.00 votes
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Review 3 of 31
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Pros: Does a decent job of storing music on the hard drive - both convenience and quality of compression and storage. The system is also unobtrusive in the room.
Cons: Very limited feature set. Weak laser and limited format capability. Very limited number of inputs - both video and audio. Speaker system is definitely not audiophile quality. Clunky system interface - very time consuming to edit music library.
Summary: I've been an audiophile and musician since the 60's with a wide range of musical tastes (and yes, I still like to crank it up every now and then). After being widowed and remarrying, my new wife "came equipped" with one of these systems (in perfect condition, too). I replaced my main system in the living room with it and we used it for several months. The wife's a keeper, but the Bose had to go. It's widely accepted that this type of Bose speaker system has little or no response in the middle of the bass range - right where the detail happens in a good bass guitar line. Lower frequencies kick back in (and here you'll have to pardon the pun) to cover the kick drum and low frequency sound effects in movies. Listening to almost any kind of music this leaves a gutless, hollow feeling at the bottom end.
The DVD/CD reader has a very weak laser subassembly and has problems with DVDs which play OK on any of our three PCs or my other two DVD players. The formats readable by the unit are also pretty limited.
It is also extremely difficult and time consuming to edit the stored music collection. The Bose remote has to be used for everything and there is no QWERTY keyboard capability. In addition, the GraceNote music database can only be updated via a CD supplied by Bose (of course). If you don?t update regularly, any newly-released CDs will be stored as ?Unknown? or ?Various artists.? In some cases, the songs will even be stored individually (not as one album) so you can end up with hundreds of unclassified, unnamed, individual files.
I do like the way the system looks in the room ? very compact and much more ?stealthy? than my older floor-standing speakers or my new high-end bookshelf speakers on stands and a separate sub. This, however, isn?t enough to overcome the system?s shortcomings in the audio and video departments.
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Reviewed by:
David Sommers
(Casual Listener)
Review Date
January 27, 2009Overall Rating
1 of 5
Value Rating
1 of 5
Used product for
3 Months to 1 year Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1.00 votes
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Review 4 of 31
Price Paid:
$700.00
from American Summary:
I have used the 321 system for approximately 6 months, and is is now out of order. It will not turn on unless you unplug it after each use so it can reset. Not what you would expect from a $700.00 purchase. Strengths:
Sound is ok. Weaknesses:
Out of order in 6 months.
The remote control will not work with the satellite system or TV that I have.
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Reviewed by:
blowjarn
(Casual Listener)
Review Date
October 27, 2007Overall Rating
5 of 5
Value Rating
5 of 5
Used product for
Less than 1 month Visitors rate this review
3.56 of 5,
48.00 votes
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Review 5 of 31
Price Paid:
$0.00
from bonus from work Summary:
It took me 15 minutes to set this up, I have nothing negative to say about it. I don't know if it's worth a grand, but I got it as a bonus at work. I went and purchased speaker stands and those are kind of sad, but it says on the directions to put the speakers in a certain place for optimal sound so I bought them. Strengths:
Ease of installation, sound is fine. Weaknesses:
The only weakness is the DVD player on it blows. It is only a 480P, whatever that means. My TV is a plamsa 1080P, so I guess I only get half the P...I don't know what that means, but it doesn't sound good. Similar Products Used:
My last system was an RCA, wires all over the place, although I did like hearing sound that was behind me.
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