Haha I did it !! Bose Jewel Cube discovery!!

[Drakemoor]

As someone mentioned, in the 70s and 80s they were pretty decent. I had a roomate with some 301's and I thought they put out pretty good sound.

yeah the 301's weren't too bad, you'll find them in the ceiling corner of your average pub, i guess they have stood the test of reliability aswell.

as an aside, I saw a few minutes of a pretty funny Bose infomercial the other night. Bose was setup at Montery Jazz Festival, and they had that wave radio setup, and they were interviewing all these 40 something douchebags who thought themselves hipsters. Anyways, they were claiming the Bose Wave was putting out sound like a live concert. Some dude was interviewed and he said something like....."wow, I thought there was a full jazz band and a standup bass player!" "the trebles and lows are so rich" (I guess it's that 20 feet of vacuum tube coil in there)lol

that is pretty much what i hate about them, some of the most outrageous qoutes from them but the marketing is absolutely ridiculous. They 'patent' different terms for technology that has been around for ages, that waveguide thing they use, isn't that essentially just a transmission line?

[Molasses]

mix matching impedances between the receiver and the speakers will result in reduced sound quality and can also damage the equipment

I was thinking the same thing.



It almost seems like being pleased that you were able to mount Hyundai rims on your new GTR. But, as long as you like it that's all that really matters.

[ptaaty]

One of my first real Bose experiences outside of commercials was when I was just getting into home sound.

I thought Bose was one of the best based on the fact they had their own store, were expensive, rich people owned them, the commercials, etc (naive)

While looking for my first compact system for an apartment I heard the Bose systems, at the time about $2500, never having heard a surround system...I was thinking it was pretty great. But I kept looking around...found a place that had demos of a few other compact systems, and managed to convince them to let me do a back to back of a Bose vs Mirage system, with the same material.

Eyes were opened, there was no contest, at all. Proptly paid $1000 for a sub/sat system which blew the doors off the Bose system at $2500.

Since then I have been more involved with HT, having many more experiences with high end gear, proper setups, etc. I have come to the realization that Bose products really aren't that bad. They are just incredibly overpriced for what you get. They are still simple to use products, look nice, and meet many people's needs. They even have some products which border on high end. But at every step you are buying marketing, and not quality components or a design which puts fidelity foremost.

You know what though...it doesn't matter if people like it. I couldn't believe how terrible the Bose noise cancelling headphones I heard were for actual sound reproduction. They were great for comfort, really worked to reduce noise...but did not sound anywhere near the level I have come to expect for fidelity. My coworker couldn't stop gushing about the SQ....

[Acupuncture]

I have come to the realization that Bose products really aren't that bad. They are just incredibly overpriced for what you get. They are still simple to use products, look nice, and meet many people's needs. They even have some products which border on high end. But at every step you are buying marketing, and not quality components or a design which puts fidelity foremost.

That is probably the best way to describe Bose as a company. Saying Bose is absolute junk is a bit ignorant, but they are way over priced, and better setups can be found for much, much cheaper.

[Rastlin]

Like 10 years ago my best friend growing up, is dad bought an acoustimass system that cost around $1800, he had it for about 6 months, the sub went bad so while he was waiting for Bose to replace it he went out and bought a system for his sun room, and stuck the speakers in the living room until the Bose were back up and running. Anyways he liked the speakers he bought a $199 set of Mission bookshelf speaker. So when the Bose were working again he demoed them back to back. Anyways 6 people were around to compare because it was a BBQ day, and every single person agreed that the Mission speakers sounded better and that it wasn't even really close when it came to quality. Anyways that is exactly what I think of Bose.

[mpsdadhiala]

I bought 5 Bose Jewel Double Cube Speakers from ebay
and hooked it upto my Yamaha RX-1800 reciever and it works. The things is Bose don't tell you any specs such as ohms which is the ampidence! but hey I proved alot of people wrong! Bose jewel speakers do work perfect with any normal setup with your recievers. and here I have it
A 850 watts reciever with 7.1 support with Dolby True HD ,DTS HD master audio etc and it's an dream come true setup. go ahead and do it! it's so easy just buy the bose jewel cube from ebay and hook it up to ur recievers!!!!! hoooray !!!!

I have Yamaha 6160 receiver & getting my BOSE JEWEL DOUBLE CUBE Speakers. Now these speakers come with cables. Where to connect them on receiver, to speaker output or Pre Out. If I have to connect to speaker output on receiver I have to cut the cable. Please help. Thanks.

[venus43]

Got mine at Costco for $699.00. I will only tell you this, my car has 11 Bose speakers with two subwoofers. It records cds and interacts with any ipad or auxiliary input. And is the only system that handles Barbara Streisand and not strain every treble till she squeels, sad but true. But too bassie for condo life my gawd the windows rattle and sometime I'll put on some wicked techno to drown out the kids that blast their rap.

[Purextc69]

Holy thread revival batman...