beasty1976

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
1.50 of 5, 2.00 votes

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Best Surround set ever!
Great sound! Perfect for movies and also ideal for music.
The Bose set produces a very warm sound en can blast every simelar set away.
I use this set in combination with a Denon avr3806 and a Denon 3910 dvd player, take you're time to adjust all the settings, tis is very important, if not done well the sound will be very, I mean very very poor! The active subwoofer is powerfull, the bass settings on my receiver are set to -4, otherwise my house is shaking when put on in high volume.

I can recomend this set to everyone, the sound is great and the desing is superb, I'm shure you can find better sound for 1900Euro, but I'm not willing to mess up my interiour by some big fat speakers.

I find it very strange that people wright bad reviews for this system, I think they never have seen/hear them or they probebly connect them on a very bad receiver... don't forget, there are people who say everything is bad they can't pay!

Jack Trotter

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
3.13 of 5, 15.00 votes

Price Paid:  $1300.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
Buyer Beware the "bass" module only goes down to 46Hz (most less expensive speaker systems will go down to 29 or 30Hz such as the Energy Take 5.2 and even cheap Paradigm speaker packages). The Bose Bass module reaches up to 200Hz. Here is where the problem begins... The little cube speakers go down to 280Hz. So you are missing sound from 200Hz to 280Hz. If you listen to music or use these for Home theater, then you will be missing a pretty important part of the sound spectrum. But wait! That's not it! The cube speakers only go up to 13KHz (Human hearing can reach 20KHz). Bose has decided for you that anything above 13Khz is not important. Well, like I said before... If you use these for music or Home Theater you will be missing a lot. Unbelievable! Due to the system's internal crossover, there is an audible gap from 200Hz to 280Hz and from 13KHz to 20Khz. THAT MEANS ONLY 66% OF THE ACTUAL RECORDING OR MOVIE IS BEING PLAYED BACK TO YOU!! This is the most outrageously overpriced speaker system I have ever heard. Please do yourself a favor and go listen to other products. If you can't go to a decent audio store to audition speakers and your ONLY option is Best Buy or Circuit City, then spend less money and get the Athena speakers or JBL speakers or Klipsch speakers. Much better options (not available at chain stores yet they are probably available at a decent audio shop near you) would be speaker offerings from Energy, Paradigm, Gallo(very small speakers but impressive sound), B&W... and great bargains on terrific subwoofers can be found if you look at SVS or HSU subwoofers (not extremely expensive but great bang for the buck). Ask yourself this? Who told you Bose makes great speakers? Radio Commercial? (paid for by Bose) Magazine Advertisement? (paid for by Bose) Infomercial??? A person who owns Bose and has never ventured outside of Sam's Club or Best Buy to listen to speakers? Please, before spending your hard earned money, do some research on these speakers. Search the message boards at audio websites such as Audiogon, Audio Asylum, Sound and Vision, AVS forum, etc. etc. I don't expect everyone to take my word as Golden and I completely understand. Just do some research about these speakers!!! I probably can't post links but this will get you started... look for discussion forums at Web sites such as Audiogon, Audio Asylum, Sound and Vision Mag, and AVS forum.

Read up yourself, this is more overpriced, underperforming garbage from BOSE.

http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html

Strengths:
Compact, easy to put together, that's where it ends.

Weaknesses:
Everything else, poor frequency response, no deep bass at all, cheap untreated manilla hemp paper for the 2.5" speakers that are supposed to cover decent frequencies....sorry, physics don't lie.

BOSE speakers are a joke.

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bernard1

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
3.44 of 5, 16.00 votes

Price Paid:  $900.00 from ONLINE

Summary:
Surround yourself with riveting movie sound and superb musical performances with the best 6.1-channel home entertainment speaker system BOSE AM16. I paired this with Onkyo Surround Sound Receiver (TX-SR602). IF YOU HAVE BOSE AM15 this is also a perfect combination. IF you want to upgrade your BOSE AM15 to make it AM16 you can buy the upgrade system kit online from $175 (amazon.com) - $199 (bestbuy.com)

Strengths:
PERFECT IN DESIGN, CLARITY AND SOUND QUALITY.

Weaknesses:
PRICE??? YOU PAY WHAT YOU GET FOR THE BEST

ttseng

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
3.29 of 5, 17.00 votes

Price Paid:  $1399.00 from Bose

Summary:
This entire system was great and the sound quality was so nice. For this small size, you won't be able to find the speakers set like this. I really love it.

Strengths:
Size, quality

Weaknesses:
Price

Consumer Watch NA

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
2.92 of 5, 52.00 votes

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Bose,one of the most respected speaker manufacturer, created one of the best sounding HTSS we heard.It plays loud and has outstanding dynamics, crisp clean highs and tight ,focused bass.