Re: No Bose

["Al Powell" <APOWELL@agcom.tamu.edu>]

> From:          "Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu>
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Eliot Lim wrote:
> 
> > > For others' benefit - I am trying (with the help of an electronics
> > > designer) to add high end by playing with the ports on the front Bose
> > > enclosures before I try *electronic countermeasures* (tm)......
> > 
> > you mean your system doesn't have enough high end?
> 
> I don't know about the Audi Bose system, but on the GM-Cadillac Bose 
> system, they use one 3.5" full range speaker - no tweeters!  I can see 
> the complaint of not enough highs.  That's one nice 3.5" speaker though!  
> I did some pink noise analysis of it, and it really is flat, and fairly 
> broad-ranged.  I think it would make a fine midrange driver in a proper 
> 3-way system.

Right.  Every Bose speaker in my car is a single cone unit - no 
coaxials.  I think this is where they save a buck and compensate by 
the electronics in their amps.  I agree about the quality of sound; I also 
think these speakers are capable of reproducing high-end sound if 
you can get the signal to them.  I also agree that a more ideal 
system would use separate tweeters, and that may end up being what I 
try.  It's just that adding two more speakers in my configuration 
will require additional electronics worth about $300 to do what I 
really want to do.  That may be chicken feed for others, but I don't 
spend $300 on car electronics very darn often.  Last time I did, I 
bought a whole JVC Am/Fm/Cassette deck head with 6-disc CD changer 
(factory reconditioned) for about $380! 

Grumble, grumble, gripe........

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