Buy Other Sound Equipment
May 11, 2003 08:36 PM
Well, if you haven't guessed that, it's acronym is BOSE. About five years back, when my friend took me to his brother's place to flaunt his new Bose Lifestyle 5, I was astonished by the clarity and power of the tiny system. Little did I know about acoustics at that time. On my journey of assembling my dream music system (which by the way, hasn't taken shape), I came across some disturbing facts about Bose. Me and Michael(a.k.a. Flypig) have been to the BOSE store at Haji Ali, Mumbai. When I heard the speakers this time, I was pretty much unimpressed. Heck, my Creative Inspire PC speakers sound alike. At the store, I did get one familiar feeling though, the same when a Microsoft salesperson talks with you. While I don't consider myself as an elitist audio purist, I do have that little sense of differentiating between good, bad and worse. We have had a good sampling of `unpopular' brands like B&W, Pune based Cadence, Onkyo and Paradigm. To have a complete lowdown on Acoustimass, you need to go to a serious audiophile's review of the cheaply built BOSE AM-15 system. After all, the BOSE's and Nakamichi's are all the Microsofts of the audio industry.
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1.
Amol Hatwar said...
Yes, BOSE sucks and it is not for purists. Guess what? Onkyo sucks too!
The Creative Inspire is made with tight tolerances and has been designed by the legendary Cambridge Soundworks. What more do you want ;)
I assembled my own boxes from Vifa and ScanSpeak drivers I imported from The Netherlands. Pity, they aren't sheilded; but they work just great. Especially the fluid cooled bass driver.
The Amp is a custom designed mod of the great ancient Philips design. I use Vaccum tubes for the preamp and some other components for a reduced THD and linearity.
Good to meet another audiophile!
2.
Nilesh said...
Cool! You use tubes!
3.
Sachin nair said...
hey good people ... am on after ages. Got my cable reconnected, visited Kerala for a good 7 days. Now working on my website[attempting a standards compliant one hehe. ].
Read about your website, i did visit many times in the last month, thought it was your registrar .. lol coz i actually checked whether your domain name was available. So what else is new???
and am not sure whether your mailATnilesh exists soo .. am sending a couple to your domain .. in a few hours!
4.
Michael said...
Someone tell me where I can get sub woofer drivers. Ah Nilesh I think you forgot to mention our visit to the B&W showroom :))
Those were monsters.
5.
Tushar said...
Michael, use those Klipsch as fronts, bitch!
6.
Sujith said...
Well said!
I too have a Creative Inspire 5.1 alongwith the Creative Audigy soundcard. I truly cannot come to terms with the fact that the atrocious price difference between this and a BOSE system is explained by the "better" audio quality of the latter.
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Dj said...
Hello guys,
Currently I am searching cost-effective AV and speaker system which comes into my Rs. 35K budget.
I have done little investigation and found out my budget is very tight so I am considering upgrade approach to buy Amp and 2 front speakers first and in 6 months to year I will upgrade it with sub-woofer and remaining speakers.
I appreatiate if you can share your thoughts/feedback/experience.
Thanks in advance,
Dj B
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Picked up a pair of Bowers & Wilkins DM604 speakers about a week ago. They rock! I'd gone and checked out all the other speakers: JBL, Infinity, Klipsch, Sony (really suck), Athena, Polk Audio, KEF, and more. I'd liked KEF the best, but they're on t...
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B&W DM604 Speakers Rock! »None of you know what you are talking about. All of the crap you are talking about, no one wants to deal with. Tubes, resistors, woofers, components, no one wants to deal with that shit. If you want the simplest setup with the best sound, bose is the only way. At least they put research into their products and dont roll out new product every month and add a blue light here and there and call it a "new model"
10.
What are you talking about? said...
BOSE is not the best sound if you don't want to mess with that stuff. It costs more money than professional audio equipment. You can get studio monitors cheaper than a freakin BOSE system. I mean look at this crap: http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=901_floorstanding_index
Their home theatre systems are in the thousands! Their headphones are rediculously more expensive than studio headphones. They won't tell you the specifications of the systems. They are a perfect, 100% example of prosumer.
11.
bosefan said...
whatever, youre one of those audio people who wants to sound smart by talking about a bunch of crappy receivers, at least bose puts research into their products
12.
Steve Savage said...
Bose is the only company that I know of that actually has employees go out on the internet and post as "happy owners". They usually give it away when they post a boilerplate letter about how wonderful Dr. Amar Bose is, and how 100% of their profits go back into research.
If that was really true, then the space shuttle by now would be made of paper whizzer cones. I think the only other company that still uses paper cones in its speakers is Delco.
Its truly sad when you look at Bose crappy paper cones, and realize that even companies that get their speaker stocks from communist china (Pyle, Pyramid, Phase Linear, others) now use poly cones and technology that puts bose to shame. At least they are humble enough to charge what they are worth, unlike Bose.
13.
James Haydon said...
Bad
Overpriced
Sound
Equipment
Basically summs it up - BOSE is okay....but not good.
And its an absolute rip off. I have used Sony speakers that outperform BOSE speakers.
If u want to impress your n00b friends - buy BOSE
If u want to impress your audiophile friends - smash a BOSE subwoofer with an axe.
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13 comments have been added. Add your comments.
1. Amol Hatwar said...
Yes, BOSE sucks and it is not for purists. Guess what? Onkyo sucks too!
The Creative Inspire is made with tight tolerances and has been designed by the legendary Cambridge Soundworks. What more do you want ;)
I assembled my own boxes from Vifa and ScanSpeak drivers I imported from The Netherlands. Pity, they aren't sheilded; but they work just great. Especially the fluid cooled bass driver.
The Amp is a custom designed mod of the great ancient Philips design. I use Vaccum tubes for the preamp and some other components for a reduced THD and linearity.
Good to meet another audiophile!
2. Nilesh said...
Cool! You use tubes!
3. Sachin nair said...
hey good people ... am on after ages. Got my cable reconnected, visited Kerala for a good 7 days. Now working on my website[attempting a standards compliant one hehe. ].
Read about your website, i did visit many times in the last month, thought it was your registrar .. lol coz i actually checked whether your domain name was available. So what else is new???
and am not sure whether your mailATnilesh exists soo .. am sending a couple to your domain .. in a few hours!
4. Michael said...
Someone tell me where I can get sub woofer drivers. Ah Nilesh I think you forgot to mention our visit to the B&W showroom :))
Those were monsters.
5. Tushar said...
Michael, use those Klipsch as fronts, bitch!
6. Sujith said...
Well said!
I too have a Creative Inspire 5.1 alongwith the Creative Audigy soundcard. I truly cannot come to terms with the fact that the atrocious price difference between this and a BOSE system is explained by the "better" audio quality of the latter.
7. Dj said...
Hello guys,
Currently I am searching cost-effective AV and speaker system which comes into my Rs. 35K budget.
I have done little investigation and found out my budget is very tight so I am considering upgrade approach to buy Amp and 2 front speakers first and in 6 months to year I will upgrade it with sub-woofer and remaining speakers.
I appreatiate if you can share your thoughts/feedback/experience.
Thanks in advance,
Dj B
8. Reference from G Blog
Read more in B&W DM604 Speakers Rock! »
9. Bose Fan said...
None of you know what you are talking about. All of the crap you are talking about, no one wants to deal with. Tubes, resistors, woofers, components, no one wants to deal with that shit. If you want the simplest setup with the best sound, bose is the only way. At least they put research into their products and dont roll out new product every month and add a blue light here and there and call it a "new model"
10. What are you talking about? said...
BOSE is not the best sound if you don't want to mess with that stuff. It costs more money than professional audio equipment. You can get studio monitors cheaper than a freakin BOSE system. I mean look at this crap: http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=901_floorstanding_index
Their home theatre systems are in the thousands! Their headphones are rediculously more expensive than studio headphones. They won't tell you the specifications of the systems. They are a perfect, 100% example of prosumer.
11. bosefan said...
whatever, youre one of those audio people who wants to sound smart by talking about a bunch of crappy receivers, at least bose puts research into their products
12. Steve Savage said...
Bose is the only company that I know of that actually has employees go out on the internet and post as "happy owners". They usually give it away when they post a boilerplate letter about how wonderful Dr. Amar Bose is, and how 100% of their profits go back into research.
If that was really true, then the space shuttle by now would be made of paper whizzer cones. I think the only other company that still uses paper cones in its speakers is Delco.
Its truly sad when you look at Bose crappy paper cones, and realize that even companies that get their speaker stocks from communist china (Pyle, Pyramid, Phase Linear, others) now use poly cones and technology that puts bose to shame. At least they are humble enough to charge what they are worth, unlike Bose.
13. James Haydon said...
Bad
Overpriced
Sound
Equipment
Basically summs it up - BOSE is okay....but not good.
And its an absolute rip off. I have used Sony speakers that outperform BOSE speakers.
If u want to impress your n00b friends - buy BOSE
If u want to impress your audiophile friends - smash a BOSE subwoofer with an axe.
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