exploding Bose speakers

Brett Dikeman brett at cloud9.net
Thu Oct 18 18:26:07 EDT 2001


At 1:51 PM -0400 10/18/01, TM wrote:
>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.


I bought a closeout Blaupunkt Tokyo Cd player for $250 or so; some of 
the highest FM and CD dB ratings that I could see(over 100dB for CD, 
FM was around 14dB I think.)

Soundgate adapter, $100

Cost of repairing or replacing my two fronts(they recently started 
dropping out): $200-ish if I went for the most expensive option; amp 
board replacement would be far less.

Total?  $500 or less.  Later, if I feel like upgrading, I can sell 
all four speakers and the soundgate, probably, recouping the cost of 
those.  I haven't lost anything by this intermediary step.

   In the meantime, the new head unit has a sub output, so I could, if 
I wanted, add a small sub to improve base; I find the bose speakers 
more than sufficient in many regard, they just tend to rattle the 
flimsy door panels a little with really powerful low tones.

   The sound from the CD player, quite frankly, is incredible compared 
to the old head unit.  Anyone who says "the bose system is crap" and 
has only listened to cassettes and the radio(or even the changer, 
which is FM based and suffers the same problems as FM radio stations) 
obviously has a basic lack of knowledge about the quality of both 
formats.  The problem isn't "crappy bose", it's "crappy cassette 
tapes and CD cassette adapters."

HALF the cost of your "better" solution, and barely an hour of my 
time, versus $1,000 for a system I'd have to spend hours selecting 
components, reading up, ordering, and then even more hours 
installing.  If you went with a $150 head unit and the soundgate and 
didn't have any blown speakers, you'd be getting a serious leap up in 
audio quality.

B
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