Price Paid:  $2500.00

Summary:
I baught the bose am15 series 3 because a friend of mine had an old bose am15 system with the passive sub. I thaught that system sounded great. The series 3 sounds even better the powered sub is increradible and the sound i get out of them is increadable . This system is upgradable to 6.1 but if u use the bose vcs10 for centre channel runing directly to your reciever you can use it as a 7.1 system.

Great system looks great, sound better totaly recomended

Strengths:
small hideable speakers
high power low sub

Weaknesses:
a bit pricy but woth it

Price Paid:  $1200.00 from CC

Summary:
To all that are thinking that Bose are the best, or even think that they make a good system or speaker. Please believe me when I say the lifestyle system is garbage. The speakers are very inadequate. I was suckered by name brand and hip. If I did my research I would of discovered that bose makes junk and doesn't back up there product. I have spent 100s trying to get this system to sound good. I have hired experts to see if I was doing somthing wrong. I have it set up correct since day 1. Its just that Bose makes a bad product. Bose is a low end quality product. That has a purpose in the low end market and should sell for $100 for the entire system. If anyone disagrees e-mail me and I will sell my system for a fraction of what I paid for it. I would actually give them 0 stars. But 1 was as low as they will go

Strengths:
0

Weaknesses:
I could go for days

Similar Products Used:
Denon, Boston, RCA, Infinity

Price Paid:  $847.00 from ONLINE

Summary:
I BOUGHT THIS SYSTEM BRAND NEW ONLINE FOR THE BEST DEAL AND I GOT AN UPGRADE SYSTEM KIT TO MAKE IT BOSE AM16. YOU CAN BUY THE UPGRADE SYSTEM KIT ONLINE STARTING FROM $175 AT AMAZON.COM UPTO $199 FROM BESTBUY.COM. I THINK NOBODY CAN BEAT THE PRICE.

Strengths:
AWESOME SOUND. HIGH QUALITY AND PERFECT IN SIZE.

Weaknesses:
I THINK THE BASS MODULE IT IS TOO BIG FOR ITS SIZE.

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Buyer Beware!!!

Ever wonder why Bose does not post specs on their speakers? Here's why...
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.

Price Paid:  $1200.00 from Circuit City

Summary:
I have done some listening to other five speakers systems and they had there weakness and strong points. Some looked as if a concert stage for the Rolling Stones would be set up in my entertainment room (aka living room) others were not so dominating but lacked the omph in the base department. Not that the Bose am15-2 is the perfect speaker, but after listening to a demo at Circuit City I knew Bose had paid attention to the "experts" in the forums and had fixed a lot of the problems with the five channel speaker systems that they have to offer. I would not have bought AM15 (series one), however the series two is another story. I like what it does with my denon 4800 reciever with music and movies. I also listen to SACD and DVD AUDIO, and with the new crossover networks in the sub (bigger better sub) the placement of the base is just right.
the bottom line here is that it floats my boat for now. there is always going to better stuff coming our way, you just have to do non biased research, and most of all do a demo and let your ears be your guide.

Strengths:
Does a fine disappearing act
Base has decent omph at the right place and time
Does just fine for music and movies.

Weaknesses:
Price could be a bit lower.

Similar Products Used:
Gallo Round Sound.