Bose Acoustimass Stories

[tomscave]

Five years ago I too fell for all the hype surrounding Bose and purchased the Acoustimass 15 series 2 speaker system along with four regular Bose stands and one Bose table top stand for the center speaker, total bill, $1600.00. Since then I've found awesome forums like this one and "finally realized the errors of my ways". I sold the Bose system on *bay (only could get $700) and purchased all Klipsch from BB (all sale pricing) and spent half what I paid for the Bose. The difference in sound quality is mind boggling. The sound quality is 1000 times better, IMHO, than the Bose, even with my seven year old RCA (5.1 100 watts per channel) avr. Now I can't wait for my new Onkyo Tx-Sr705 avr to arrive. I will definitely do my best to talk friends, family, anybody out of buying Bose in the future. In the meantime, I'll keep reading and learning.

I never will forget when I was about 16 years of age... my dream was to have some 901's. All of us guys in the neighborhood use to talk about it.

Ahh, the 901 classic's hooked up to the Pioneer Elite Receiver in Soundtrack was also my dream system long ago.


Today, the only Bose system I own is the Noise canceling headphones. They were definitely more money than other Noise canceling headphones but they seemed to be the only ones that fit my ear the way I like.

[OvalNut]

I just got back from a Bose Lifestyle system demo at a Bose store. I let the salesman do the whole pitch including the demo in the Bose Theater where at the end they show you that you've actually been listening to a set of jewel cubes and an Acoustimass.

Bleaaa, ...dreck! I feel a need to wash out my ears.

Boy, there was alot of mid/upper bass, and alot of upper midrange, and not much else. No presence, imaging or depth. It was an obnoxious audio assault. Loud, yet hardly pleasing. And all for only $2,999.... geesh.

Bose desrerves ALL the bile they reap on boards like this one after what I just experienced. Yuk!


Tim