exploding Bose speakers

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Roger,
At the costs you quote, my advice is to scrap the whole thing and
install a proper stereo- the Bose system is terrible, no use in
spending more money on it.

$450 to keep the Bose is silly- you can do the whole system for
about $1000 if you scrap the whole thing and do the labor yourself.

$200 front speakers
$100 rear speakers
$300 head unit
$400 4-channel or 5-channel amp (in case you want to add a sub)

That's basically what I did and I'll put my very modest stereo against
a Bose system any day of the week and I'll win in sound quality, even
though my install is not the best (nowhere near that actually).

Taka