Good Sound Rocks

[mattp]

those are scratching posts for the cat right?

 

 

Yup. He likes 'em. I keep them right next to my climbing ropes he uses for a litter box.

[AlpineK]

I've got a receiver and speakers that work good enough, but I ain't Richie Rich.

[olyclimber]

the blue speakers are $18,000 and the yellow ones are $135,000. Unfortunately, those are a bit out of my price range right now, but they get good reviews!

 

I suppose some Bose products might be OK, but everything I have bought from them has been complete shite.

 

If you let me borrow those speakers I'll give you $50 for your ratty old rekkid player Matt

[Off_White]

(By the way, I bought the speakers from a guy living on the waterfront in Skagit County, a guy who told a bunch of disgusting stories.)

 

You bought speakers from Trask? I hope you disinfected those things.

[joblo7]

the blue speakers are $18,000 and the yellow ones are $135,000. Unfortunately, those are a bit out of my price range right now, but they get good reviews!

 

I suppose some Bose products might be OK, but everything I have bought from them has been complete shite.

 

If you let me borrow those speakers I'll give you $50 for your ratty old rekkid player Matt

 

 

i got these 'puppies' built with high end focal drivers,(jmlabs utopia line) an external analog crossovers by forte accoustics and custom cabinets. weigh 200lbs a side. accurate and real bass and dynamics.! i also use a 15" custom subwoofer with a 500w amp for soundtracks or sacd.s..cost 1/5 of retail. close to those alexandrias....

[ericb]

I have a Polk Audio surround system that was less than a lot of anything equivalent from Bose....satellite speakers are a tad larger but much fuller range sound. Bose is good at one thing....marketing

[tvashtarkatena]

Don't even ask me if my subwoofer goes to 11...

 

[mattp]

I'm still wondering: will I notice a big difference if I try a fancier CD player? The one we now have is about ten years old and wasn't all that expensive at the outset.

[olyclimber]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio

[hafilax]

A physics prof here at SFU designed and built his own tube dac. That's what you really need to give those CD's some life.

 

A part of the problem is that people compress the shit out of their recordings these days. There seems to be a battle of the loudest. Totally kills the dynamics of the music.

[archenemy]

klipsch

 

I love my Klipsch. I've tried Bose, Polk, and Infinity (as well as a host of not as good) and enjoyed them; but nothing fits my music like Klipsch.

[ClimbingPanther]

78% of audio professionals drive Buicks for their superior stock sound system

[archenemy]

freaks.

[builder206]

klipsch

 

I love my Klipsch. I've tried Bose, Polk, and Infinity (as well as a host of not as good) and enjoyed them; but nothing fits my music like Klipsch.

 

I got a pair of Heresies not long after they came out. I wonder if Klipsch still makes them?

[Dechristo]

as to Bose: I don't pretend to know a lot about stereo's or sound, but I've read some of that crap on the web and it looke to me like it is in style to dislike all of their products just because it is cool. These 901's are pretty good, though, and it seems to me they are much more non-directional than other options without drilling your house full of holes and running cord all over the place for surround sound.

 

Porter: your pictures remind me of these babies I'm storing for somebody at present:

 

 

They sound really great, but to best appreciate them you have to orient them just right and then sit in just the best spot.

 

This is a large part of the beauty and superiority of Bose products. In the last few years, a significant number of musicians who perform in small clubs and bars (myself among them) have switched from conventional sound amplification systems to the Bose PAS. The sound quality, in every corner of any venue, is unparalleled.

 

Most sound reproduction/amplification systems are stuck in the middle of the last century. Instead of radial/omni-directional sound distribution allowing all in a room minimal dependence upon indirect sound waves, no matter their orientation/proximity to speaker cabinets, conventional systems produce isolated (and rarefied) cone-shaped "sweet spots" that only a few in an audience are allowed to experience; particularly, if stereophonic sound is produced.

 

Quality of sound is another huge factor. Without exception, audience members remark that, unlike the rest of the band, my bass guitar cuts through to the back of the room as clear as if they were in the front. They most often attribute this anomaly to my instrument or playing, but the effect is due to the Bose PAS.

 

NON-BEELEEBERS ARE IGNANT HAYTAHS!!!

 

 

[olyclimber]

Dechristo, you really need to uncork yourself from the Bose Schlong Bandwagon and get yourself some speakers.

[Cobra_Commander]

if you stick bose noise canceling headphone speakers together do they explode (silently)?

[Cobra_Commander]

and why do audio people have such stupid names

[Dechristo]

78% of audio professionals drive Buicks for their superior stock sound system

 

The Bose sound system came stock in my fucking $45k truck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

which I rarely drive anymore since semi-retiring...

[Cobra_Commander]

that's a lot of buicks to have on the road at any given point

[Dechristo]

HAYTAHS!!!

 

 

I'm goin' down to a situation-normal-fucked-up-war-loving-military-industrial-corporate music store with my pickets & bandanas.

 

GONNA THROW SOME GARBAGE CANS AND BLOCK THE MUTHAFUKKIN' STREET!!!

[Cobra_Commander]

hoes before bose

[Dechristo]

hose-kay bose-key.

 

 

[Cobra_Commander]

I use anti-bose speakers to listen to all music. Music made by bands that don't even exist yet.

 

You know what just isn't cool? Bose. And lava.

[olyclimber]

and the sun. which, by the way, is the hottiest planet in the solar system.