10 years ago I wanted to buy a Bose Wave Radio but it was $499 so I refused to do so until the price dropped. with the mass production of consumer electronic goods by now I figured it should sell for $199 but instead it still sells for $499 and $599 with a CD player. Why hasn't the price dropped after 10 friggin' years Hotwater
Like what George said, some things just aint goin drop, to me for how they sell them here and the price buying one is a helleva statement. George you know a lot and I regard your opinion highly I'm sure there must be a product of similar quality but doesn't have the price tag that you could recommend to hotwater, maybe? {laughs}
The acoustic waveguide technology produces clear sounds without audible distortion (even at high volume levels in the low frequencies) In other words, even uncensored hard core rap music sounds like a symphony of angels - or so they allege :H Hotwater
I know several people with Bose systems and all the ones I’ve herd share three things in common the bass is unimpressive, the midrange is nonexistent and the treble is grating. for the same amount of money you could get a high-end 70’s amp / tuner, dual tape deck, turn table, and four 3-way speakers.
That's a good suggestion, however it doesn't fit my needs for a small compact quality radio / sound system for the kitchen. Hotwater
Some years back I also wanted a Bose and agonized over the price. I ended up buying a Cambridge Soundworks / Henry Kloss Modell 88, for less than half the price of the Bose. Which of the two you'd like better would depend on your tastes and the acoustics of your location. Most consumer reports rate them roughly equal. Here's an old review that includes both the 88 and the Bose: http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/conel/tabrads/index.htm I don't know if the Model 88 is still being made, but there are similar quality table radios at much lower price than the Bose but with similar performance. I still have my Model 88. I still like it.
Thanks for posting the link but the 88 reminds me too much of my former girlfriend, too heavy, aggressive looking, and a bit to wide along the hips Hotwater
Shit man, I totally thought Oldsmobiles were being talked about here (I didn't realize I had clicked on the Bose thread and started reading it back to front)
Quite true, but if you do find a nice used one/steal on ebay, they are the shit. Pauly went to school for audio (I haven't), but I do know what I think he's getting at. It's simply, that they can be overhyped for all you get, unless you're really analytical about those kinds of things or it works for you, personally, but you cannot argue Amar Bose's genius. The fault is that the speakers are built in, as it's truly just an overpriced kitchen/dining room sorta system, unless that's all you want and you want to pay that much of a price for it. I just use their headphones, though we did buy a TV from them once... Koss is a nice knockoff, and I do have a Sony bookshelf stereo that I found, which compares quite nicely, only the speakers rattle a little. But, don't expect any speaker with a plastic shell to not rattle or have distortive properties at some point, even if they're fine when you first purchase them, you know. I actually have four stereo heads in my bedroom (all from uh, people that have died or given me them), and I only use two... and then I have four or five speakers I don't even use. To be honest, my favorite system in this house is either the Sony/Aiwa bookshelf system. I'm thinking about giving some of my stuff to this center, down the street, that teaches mentally challenged people to repair electronics. Though, I do believe some folks were kinda.. cutting up Bose. They are extremelyyy well, only that their really good stuff is used in auditoriums, bullhorn/loudspeakers, high-end vehicles, and the like, which requires a different spectrum or range, so you've got a trebled bias there (Try playing several sound spectrums over the same system). The thing I do love about them, is that they recycle profits for R&D, though I don't like how they advertise on tv at all. (As we tend to forget in this day and age, the best quality-to-value stuff will never be advertised that broadly) I'm actually thinking about just starting to collect old audio stuff for a hobby or maybe turning it into a business someday, as I have so much audio stuff laying all over the place, as it is. My dad actually gave me my first set of speakers, which happened to be a couple hugeeeeeee Mirage floor speakers from the 70s. Actually, they're a couple of the first ones ever made, that my dad just happened to pick up at a thrift store, sometime in the 80s, I believe. Cambridge is also a nice option for the cost, but they're not going to hold up to Mirage... like I said, all depends on what your needs are and far you're willing to go. http://miragespeakers.com/v2/
Orsino, what you should do is get your most powerful amp and your best and second best set of speakers. Put your best speakers in the front of the room and put the second best ones in the back. Wire the front ones normally and connect the negatives on the back ones together and the positives to left and right positives on your amp. What this does is cancel out what’s shared on both the left and right channels on the back speakers but not the front ones thus in modern terms creating “4.0 surround sound” or in 70’s terms “matrixed quadraphonic”. Also it should correctly reproduce “SQ” quadraphonic records although I‘m not sure because I‘m not lucky enough to own any quadraphonic records.
