Posted on 04/04/2003 12:14:32 PM PST by 11th_VA
Do these systems automatically adjust low frequency output with volume adjustment? Do they have proprietary software that customizes individual speaker equalization to compensate for specific room acoustics?
You get what you pay for.
The HTIB systems have a line-level sub output from the receiver which feeds the input on the sub. The sub volume IS ganged with the volume of the other speakers. All HTIB systems do this.
Further, all HTIB systems have Setup Menus which allow the user to adjust the levels to ALL of the speakers individually. None of them, however, have individual-channel EQ - but not even the top-of-the-line Home Theater receivers do this, either. For instance, our receiver is a mid-to-upper level Onkyo, which DOES have "tone controls" (bass and treble) - BUT those only affect the output to the Left and Right Front speakers, and only in Stereo or Direct modes. The system applies NO EQ to ANY channel in any of the Surround modes. Any user that needs individual EQ on a per-channel basis is not going to be buying this type of product - and, secondly, has an acoustically-hostile environment that should be cleaned up first.
If you haven't heard today's HTIB product, you might be very pleasantly surprised.
Michael
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e-mail response | Sun April 6, 2003 | Lee Miller, Customer Support Team
Posted on 04/08/2003 12:02 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Thank you for your inquiry.
Bose Corporation supports our country, especially in this time of conflict. We support the American flag and the demonstration of that flag. There is no policy against the display of the American flag. Bose is an American company and proud of it
There were decisions made at the local level to take the flag down in isolated Bose stores. This was a mistake and will be addressed. As a company, we fly the flag at all times at our office buildings, and many employees display the flag in their work stations.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call our agents at the phone numbers below.
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I was looking at putting a bigger system in when I go to build a new house, but will keep my eye on things other than Bose.
What is your recommendation for something in a home theater system that won't take up half the room for its components? I have limited access to a place to listen to these things or view them and hate the super stores chock full o electronics. The smaller specialty places like their products too and charge a lot for them.
Bose quality is not in question....
They build a solid little product and give great customer service.
Which they SHOULD since their products are grossly, GROSSLY (I just can't stress this hard enough) over-priced.
That's one reason I went with the Bose 3-2-1, it's an all in one (radio/cd/dvd with hookups for VCR, Satellite and TV) that takes up very little space and puts a good sound in my small listening area.
I was glad to see that, 5 years after everybody else, Bose finally got into the 21st century by coming out with a DVD based product.
That is until I went to hook one up.
Arrrghhh...just ONE S-Video input!
Might as well not have ANY.
Five years to think about it...and they STILL screw the pooch!
What is your recommendation for something in a home theater system that won't take up half the room for its components?
I put one of these in the other day and was really impressed.
It has a built-in progressive DVD/CD player with Component out and S-Video inputs/outputs.
The Sub is powered by the built-in amp, but there is a standard sub woofer pre-out that will allow you to upgrade at a later time.
It retails for $1299 and absolutely blows the doors off of the $3000 Bose Life Style.
Yeah, but since I don't have anything with S-Video, and by the time I can afford it, I'll have the Bose relegated to the bedroom, it won't matter.
My dad recently went off the deep end and updated everything he had (kinda like buying a Formula One racer and not even having a learner's permit). He had satellite and a VCR with regular TV. Went and bought a DVD player, a new Sony surround sound processor, a Mitsubishi HDTV with integrated digital tuner, kept the satellite, and VCR...Paid an extra $50 to have the store's "Pro" come out and hook it up.
Three hours of my "will work for Pizza and Diet Coke" time later, we undid the "Pro's" screw-ups and got it running...it would have been less time for me, but I was unfamiliar with the whole concept of everything running through the TV and didn't get to the instruction manual until about half-way through the third hour (I hate manuals, they read like stereo instructions ;-)).
That's what I charge.....per hour.
Of course I come out with test discs, filters, and an SPL meter.
The sound and picture adjustments alone usually take about an hour and a half. (never mind the physical hooking up of the equipment)
I then give a complete tutorial on how to work the beast....
And then leave my home phone number!
(Who says freepers aren't brave? hehe)
Just bought the 510D multimedia surround sound speakers for my computer.They crank out at 500 watts.I still have my JBL 4312 studio moniters I bought at the PX in Furth Germany back in '85.Sound just as good now as the day I bought'em.
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