Bose® Acoustimass® 16 Series II home entertainment speaker system - Black
By: Bose Average Rating: 4.0 Total Reviews: 5
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 On: 2008-05-19
hi everyone, first my setup is a panny 58inch plasma 720p from big buy store starts with a Costc...my bose acoustimass 16 series 2 is the second bose product i have owned. i orginally had the 5 deal but as you know the older subwoofer only had two woofers and this one has a total of 3 in the bass module. for the first one i replaced it with a infinity tss750 years ago when it first came out. when comparing the two then...the tss did have a clear sounding treble...like when the glass shattered in the matrix movies...you could hear that "KEEEE SSHSSHHHH" sound...the movie sounds were "brighter" sounding...however!!! the bose had a warm richer sound...not as "tinny" as some have described speakers to be...now look i am just an average techno geeky girl that loves a good hd-surround sound setup and back then it was with my long gone Sony KEFWE50 rear projection. with hard wood floors and your standard family room setup...it sounding great then...now in 2008. i have the onkyotx705 paired now with the 16 series 2...it sounds TREMENDOUS...yeah it is a more powerful reciever...but also i think that extra woofer gives it a bit more OOMPH... WHEN i scurry through different reviews, i get people reviewing based on of the 10 series or less...heck those are based off of not even the dual cube speakerrs...and the woofer module is like what one or two woofers??? i believer that if you get the best of the bunch...meaning the 16 series 2 that have the 3 woofers in the bass module and pair it with an outstanding av reciever it will ROCK...now for me...its all about movies...not so much music...and maybe crazy audiophiles have a problem with music...its possbile...but the craze now is movies...also...its important that when you hook it up and set your speaker size preferences in the av reicever...that you set it to...LARGE SPEAKERS..THATS RIGHT LARGE SPEAKERS..ITS IN THE MANUAL...i am not some audio crazed expert however...i know my components...and i have owned 3 different speakers now to know the differences...lets stay on point also...consumer reports stated that...dont let marketing dictate the quality of your speakers...all the fancy metal, choromium, diaphrams or whatever your speakers are made of doesnt guarantee the audio translated out to what you hear...let your ears decide...besides...your ears for the most part cant pickup such PERFECT VARIANCES BY MUCH anyway...for me it boiled down to brand quality, great sleek modern looks, and a comparative review of the sound i have come to learn and choose what i like...sorry i type fast and have not gone through this to edit for grammar..pick apart what you can for the review to benefit you...i am real...and the bose bashing i believe is not based on actual ownership of the actual model acoustimass 16 series 2 which has the 3 bass woofer speakers on the modual vs the older two...and thats even with the new systems that comes with the lifestyle units...you have to buy the speakers by themselves to get the new bass module...ok...ciao everyone
 On: 2008-04-21
BOSE is a marketing machine, plain and simple. You see them everywhere you look, on the television, on billboards, in magazines; they saturate you with advertisements.
Being already familiar with BOSE I was at a friends house last weekend who had the misfortune of having picked up an Acoustimass 16 in black. He had everything set-up and we listened to a few DVDs and a few tracks. Well the speakers were definitely being sent the discreet multi-channel mixes from the DVDs we listened to, but it sounded incredibly hollow with no resolve whatsoever in the high end and the bass, or lack thereof, sounded muddy and boomy. To illustrate this we listened to the first few second of "Down In It" from the debut Nine Inch Nails album, "Pretty Hate Machine". Its a good way to measure how good the bass enclosure is, because it has one solitary low bass bell note to start the song.
Pausing the song showed how poor the design of the casing is inside. The note resounded in the cabinet for a whole second afterwards!! It was certainly not giving off low frequencies either, despite BOSEs assertion that this unit plays loud and clear to the deepest frequencies.
Obvious BOSE is thinking of a different species hearing limits when they refer to the deepest frequencies, because this unit doesnt even come close.
The high frequency response of this unit falls off really quickly and made listening to CD sound like a low-quality 128 Kbps .mp3 file.
If I had to rate this system on its CONS and PROS:
PROS - very easy set-up with wiring, tiny satellite speakers
CONS - sound, the bass is muddy and doesnt get low, the highs are nowhere to be seen.
From the overall sound of these speakers I would have guessed I was listening to a $200 Home Theater in a Box solution. That BOSE charges over $1,000 for the sound I experienced is pretty criminal, but I guess thats what a good marketing department can do.
For the $1,000+ that BOSE charges for these speakers you can find solutions that will more than outperform these speakers for under half the cost. Check out the 5.1 and 6.1 systems from Onkyo, JBL, Klipsch, etc., all for around $500 that will easily outperform the rubbish BOSE is pawning off on you.
On: 2008-04-11
Ive recently purchased this bose speaker system and pair it with my SR605 receiver. It sounds great. However, I want to setup it up as a 7.1 system and i need your advise/suggestion. This speaker system is 6.1 and my receiver is 7.1. Do I buy another pair of speakers for surround sound? How would I hook it up? Thanks
On: 2007-02-07
I bought this product despite reading several forums that consistantly bash Bose products. I am not an audiophile so I dont need the best possible speakers for my system. I was looking for a speaker system that would fill the room with good sound, which this system does. They sound great and are barely noticible around the room.
On: 2007-01-04
excelente calidad de sonido, he escuchado muchos comentarios negativos , sobre los productos bose , pero la verdad es que la calidad de esas pequeñas speakers ,es excelente muy nitida , tengo un av receiver DENON avr 2807, y es excelente la combinacion , de todo el DVD , X BOX 360 se oye estupendo , he escuchado otros equipos mas costosos y voluminosos ,de marcas reconocidas y no le piden nada a este estupendo equipo , yo lo adoro , i love it ...
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