For the same amount of money or less most all 3 way home speakers will have a flatter frequency response and more accurate bass response than what you will get from the Bose systems.

With Bose you are paying for number one the name and number two the design. It's very much like the IPOD in that respect.

If you want something unobtrusive and dont have a specific ear for the quality then Bose is great.

 

Scot...post over in the electronics section..... youll get all the help youll ever need.

 

Yeah, I'm one of those watch guys, and believe me, I wouldn't buy a Bose system. They may sound ok in a car, but only until you sit in a Lexus and listen to the Mark Levinson system.

I went to my local stereo place here in Cherry Hill, and for around $2k they could set me up with a nice starter system. I didn't bother, for the same reason as Scot - it would only get used a couple of times a month.

If I were going to buy a system now, I'd probably go with that Canadian company whose name I forget...let me see if I can find it. Here we go: http://www.energy-speakers.com/v2/

There are plenty of good speaker systems that will blow Bose away. I have a link to a great online hi-fi magazine (free) at work. I'll post it here tomorrow. I know they just did a big article about different speaker setups ranging from low to high priced.

For now, I use my Mission Cyrus One amplifier and Linn Index speakers, all bought new in Ireland back in 1986, and still going strong

 

Bose is a joke among the audio enthusiast community.

"No highs, no lows? Must be Bose."

http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html <-The truth about Bose

 

Damn, you audiophiles are really coming down hard on his setup. It seems like all he is trying to do is plug the right wires into the right holes

 

Here's that link to the free magazine:

http://www.avguide.com/the-perfect-vision

The current issue has the surround sound speaker reviews.

 

I just want to plug my *piece of shit* in the right way.

Maybe even have someone explain what all of the holes and slots are for on the back of my TV, and also show me how to actually record something if I was ever so inclined (right now I use my TV/VCR Combo)

I watch movies about 4 times per year that I would want the surround sound, so I am not going to trade mine in for a new system to barely use.

 

Most everything is labeled and color coded. Video is yellow, out using comes from the dvd player and goes into the TV. Red and White are your audio channels right and left respectively. Again out of the movie player and into what ever source is outputing your sound.

It maybe the case that you just run the video to the TV and audio to the stereo for easy setup and use. If you have the ability to run an optical audio line from a DVD player to the audio system this is the prefered option and will require only one opitical cable.

You should be able to look at each plug for the cables and parse through how it is supposed to be set up. Everything is intuitive, if you dont have audio running to the TV you wont get audio through the TV, if you run video to the TV you need to know what input it's in, if you want ot record it then obviously that video needs to pass through the VCR or DVD recorder at some point.

 

with my old tv i could turn my Bose system on and click "Audio" (i think) and it would play my tv through the stereo......

with my new Sony Wega that just doesn't seem to work even though I thought i had it wired properly.... I am not into wires..... I like stuff to just work.

 

If you just want the TV to come out through the stereo, look on the back of the TV. There will be a pair of red and white plugs labeled audio out. Get an RCA cable and run it from these plugs to the same pair of plugs on your bose system that say audio in, or Aux in, or TV in. Once this is done you should hear the audio that is going into your TV through your stereo.