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To Jon, below:I think you must be right.My experience says likewise,my reviews show this.We are doing the world a service by exposing Bozo's brazen,twisted schemes!By the way,Jon,I believe the saying goes:"No highs,no lows,it's all just Bose..." But either way,thanks! - Poorboy.

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Bose 901 series 7.

If you want a small speaker than I guess size is a plus

Dynamic range, frequency response, power, no low end, tiny highs.

There's a reason Bose doesn't show their products frequency response, sensitivity, etc. to their customers. Because they're grossly lacking. If you don't know what dynamic range, frequency response, or sensitivity is, than you haven't done enough research to justify spending a nickle on a Home Theater system. A piece of advise - venture past Circuit city, Best Buy (avoid this place most of all), Good Guy's, Fry's, etc. and go to a REAL audio/video store and listen, listen, listen. If you still think Bose has anything to offer than by all means buy it, they're your ears.

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NONE!

EVERYTHING!

Remember boys & girls..., "All highs and no low, must be BOSE"

Congratulations! If you were actually ignorant enough to buy ANY Bose product, you've succumbed to the "McDonald's of the loudspeaker industry". They are all marketing -- NO SUBSTANCE. Why is it that BOSE has one of THE LOWEST ratings , OF ALL their models, posted here.

Also, hey stupid!, can't you figure out why BOSE NEVER publishes their specs? Because they stink!!

WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!

ANY, I repeat ANY brand of loudspeaker, currently offered on this or any other planet, will give you ALOT better value for your hard-earned cash.

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My G.E. clock radio

small

just not good

Sorry guys rich is right.
My brother works for bose corp. He even got me a discount on the product.the factory is profit oriented.quality is in advertising.the sound was ok but but it loses it when you want to party.riches specs are right,loss of freq response and a sort of fake sounding bipolar effect.We played with the best they had at bose and i am not impressed.
they have new headphones out now. hmmm wonder where they came from? hey rich post yor e mail i want to talk.

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listend to def tech 100

Good sound

good sound

Good

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other satellite systems

Small white cubes, blend to home decor, my wife loves them (she paid 40%), Great sound and good bass with low volume at -70dB. The roof is going off with DTS-ES at -30dB.

Couldn't place the magnetically-shielded cubes on their side with profiled back casing.

A heavenly marriage with the new Yamaha RX-V800 Audio Receiver (US$541) in which we "cash & carry" home on a taxi. It has 140 watts each for 5 channels. Any louder, the police might "blacklist" our house.

The setup was so easy that my 5 year-old son could manage (with my finger pointing) at the huge poster provided by Bose.

First, problem was not the speakers but my Pioneer DVD-515 had to manually turn on DTS. The optical cable carried the DTS signal to the Yamaha AV.

After that, the Yamaha AV was a "killer" with so many tech stuff and it could be overwhelming. Probably I am too used to a different way of programming the micro-p. Only after days for reading the instructions then I finally could re-screen the DVD of Tarzan and Gradiators.

Phil Collins sounds good with N-Sync (D.Digital 5.1). The starting screen between the Romans and Germania was breath taking with DTS-ES.

Last night, I was enjoying Babyface and James Galway until 2.00 am. While last weekend, I had Bolero and Morning for the entire afternoon, repeatedly.

What could I ask of more for such a splendid package. I have been designing Audio system for the last decade, and I find this a very good deal.

If Bose will to release the Jewel Cubes with AM15, I will definitely go for them (they are even smaller).

For those families with kids, this is a good setup; no regrets ..... sure.



Cheers,
William Lee
Senior Engineer
Panasonic Audio.

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very small speakers that disapear in the room

poor bass response, high freq response poor. Lack of detailed imaging, artificial soundfield.Extremley overpriced

have been comparing these with my Polk/ Harmon Kardon system. The Bose don't sound bad unless you compare them to anything else, then they sound horrible in MHO.

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Small Size

Too many to list

Bose's ads are great, but not their sound. The 2 1/2 inch driver can't cover the entire midrange. It cuts the highs off and refuses to play lower midrange. The midrange in a small box can't reproduce any of the lower midrange from 600-100hz. The bass modular- Is not a SUB- uses a 5 1/2 inch midrange driver to produce bass, which doesn't work. The driver doesn't play any deep bass. Look at the frequency response diagram in Sound and Vision and you will see that half the audible range is not played. I also listened more than once to the bose system in various settings, all set up properly.
If you want a small system go for the definitive technology systems which use real one inch aluminum dome tweeters and real midrange drivers in small boxes in black or white with mounting brackets. The center is great and the sub(8-10or 12 inches) use 250 watt amps. There is nothing better for the price starting at $1000. I want to buy the pro cinema 100 system soon.
Infact, Home Theater magazine reviewed the bose system and gave it failing grade in the sixties out of a hundred. Bose then pulled out all their ads which cost the magazine a fortune. The def tech system got a rating in the 90's.
Don't settle for the bose facade. Get a great system. Find your local high-end audio/video store and listen to the difference. Energy, NHT, Acoustic Energy, Celestion and M & K also offer small systems that sound much better than the bose for less money.

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Makes my 1981 Emerson integrated 8-track player and speaker set sound almost obsolete. Reassures pride in our capitalist system that can actually market junk, er, hi-fi like this to consumers willing to buy it.

-smirk-

I was recently forced to sit through a Bose audition with a friend of mine who was enchanted with the idea of owning a set of these annoying little monsters. No, I don't own pair, but I have lots of friends who own various mutants of the Acoustomas line, and frankly they all sound the same.

Basically, all Bose Acoustomas sest sound like two wet cats stuffed in a dryer - a refined, yet annoyingly muffled screetch with throbbing, un-refined bass. The Acoustomas 15 shares that same heritage.

Back to the story; after 15-minutes into the audition I asked the salesman if I could have nitrous oxide, being the sound from the speakers was marginally more pain-full than having a root-canal, I needed something to help me through the ordeal. Man, these things sounded BAD. Mismatched crossovers, choopy frequency response, no imaging, bass that sounded like it a came from the trunk of a car, no detail or transparency what so-ever.

Feeling a bit defensive, the salesman continued his theatrics, and pulled off the fake speaker cabinets designed to impress listeners into thinking there were bigger speakers in the room. I asked him to "put them back on" being I thought they sounded better covered, then inquired if the Acoustomas was "built to the same quality standards as the covers", and "if the covers were for sale". At this point we were asked to leave. My friend wasn't so amused, but afterwards I MADE him stop by some higher end stores, and watched him smile ear to ear when he purchased a pair of close-out B&W sats with a matching sub. I'm a planar guy myself.

I'm not bashing the people who buy these things because if you're happy, your'e happy, but newbies into audio need to look elsewhere becuase you risk the chance of spoiling your appreciation for the art of music. Cambridge, B&W, NHT, etc., all make better audio equipment that sounds light years better and not built to such low standards. The Bose Acoustomas will only depreciate at your next garage sale when you get sick of listening to them. Simply use your ears and don't listen to us.

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1981 Emerson integrated 8-track player and speaker set. Fisher Price.......

The tenacity of the newly established "Audioreview emergengy response propaganda team" that it seems as though bose has recently established.

Do not, no matter what the mindless bose zombies tell you, offer real world frequency response.

This is especially directed to brent, below me. OK, I'm not even gonna ask where you got those "measurements"... But since when is a freq. response of 32Hz-202Hz with a huge HOLE between the sub and satelites and then dieing off 7000Hz short of the spectrum indicitive of a "quality speaker"? I've seen the barf-modules upper limit in reviews from viable sources, where the lower limit was around 45, which also seems to contrary to your story. And 97dB @32Hz with 10(!!!)% THD a good thing??? There is an $750 Klipsch 15" sub that produces 25Hz @115dB, thats just a little better than bose will ever do. I guess I'm just too used to real speakers and not these ridiculous toys. For others just starting the hobby, there is a recent "sound & vision" issue that contains a listing of 31 surround systems for at or under $1600, the AM-15 is included. It should be called 30 reasons to NOT buy the AM-15. Just look through the web site. I may list them here at a later date, the people deserve to know...