Best Bass Speaker for my BOSE SYSTEM?

Posted by Brad on September 29, 1998 at 11:58:53:

In Reply to: Best Bass Speaker for my BOSE SYSTEM? posted by Kris on September 28, 1998 at 22:45:07:

"Money is NO object..."

Hey Kris, if money is no object, feel free to buy two Paradigm Servo 15's, send me one and I'll test it out for you to see if you'll like it.

Honestly though, I have listened the Servo and it is quite impressive for $1499. However, you are going to run into a problem when you search for a sub. Your Bose cubes have absolutely no bass response, and thus no midrange bass performance. Many powered subwoofers have a significant trade-off between low frequency slam (those T-rex stomps in the distance) and midrange performance (those stampeding bird-lookin dinos). You may find that if you purchase a subwoofer to mate with your Bose surrounds that extends to wall-shaking frequencies, you will have little or no response in the midrange. So who cares about midrange, right? Well, if you listen to anything other than the perhaps 10 minutes of Jurassic Park-type movies that have a lot of low frequency effects, you will experience an extremely thin sound. Even if you do not listen to music through your Bose cubies movie soundtracks and musical scenes will not be very exciting for you.

What to do: (1)Relocate your current Bose setup to the bathroom(read some comments and reviews of Bose speakers on this forum and audioreview.com to get a feel for how little respect the serious A/V enthusiast has for these systems) for which you probably paid too much, and go with a package like Definitive Technology's ProCinema system or any other package respected among this and other forums. (2)Keep your no-bass Bose main speakers and spend as much on a full range sub as you would on a new package like the DT ProCinema. (3)Completely start over, Mr. Moneybags, and go with a high end separates system that will offer future upgrades, full Dolby Digital and DTS processing, full range front speakers with matched center speaker, a sub that beckons the demons of hell to shake the inner sanctum of your soul, and a nice 120", $50K front projection system that will put the local theater to shame.

Note: Effectiveness of aforementioned suggestions will depend on the household's status of WAF (wife acceptance factor).

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