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I am planning on the actual speakers I am going to purchase are going to be the Bose Acoustimass 16 Series 2. I will still need a receiver, and dvd player. Can some one suggest a good quality receiver with some good features that will cost no more than 500 dollars US. And if anybody suggests other speaker systems, I would like to hear about that as well. Thanks for the help.
May I steer you away from Bose PLEASE!
Bose does not make good sounding products, they make LOUD and BOOMING products, and that is what Bose has done a brilliant job of convincing people quality music sounds like.
Having been an extreme high end audio/video salesperson for many years, Bose was our black sheep brand for people that had more money than sense. We didn’t argue though, because we made a much bigger commission on Bose than any other brand because their products are incredibly cheaply produced and the margin they charge is 50-100% higher than any other “high end” electronics manufacturer in the industry.
The joke we used internally to describe the Bose sound is “No High’s, ALL Low’s, it MUST be Bose!” because the sound they produce is so bloated and tubby when compared to any other brands product at a similar price.
On top of that, the theory behind their mid-drivers (the cubes) is flawed at its core. They have to produce every frequency from 20Khz (Extreme high pitch) all the way down to about 200Hz(Mid-Bass, a common frequency in movie dialog). There is no single driver speaker in the world with that frequency response!
The best driver for the treble is a Dome Tweeter which are designed to ONLY produce high frequencies.
The best driver (generally speaking) for mid range is a standard cone driver.
But Bose forces their little 3″ paper coned cubes to run through frequencies which severely challenge the range of each of the above mentioned types of frequencies, and does so without at least putting in an active crossover so that each of the cubes in each pair would be able to handle a different frequency range. This means each of the speakers is working too hard to cover ALL of the frequencies ALL of the time, thereby doing none of it well.
Don’t even get me started on the lack of stereo imaging capabilities of this “Direct/Reflect” audio concept with 1 speaker aiming at you and another aiming away from you…
Buy a good quality receiver like Denon or Yamaha, and a good speaker set from a reputable brand like Klipsch or Definitive Technologies and you will be MUCH MUCH MUCH happier with the overall quality and fidelity of sound your system will produce.
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