Re: Bose and Marketing

I read a lot of negative stuff about Bose, a lot of it here. It seemed to turn around as the 'group' aged. I was in Toronto and went 2 places to listen to Bose systems. I needed a new system and the parameters were it had to sound good, and it had to be easy to carry and setup.

I've had a lot of gear over the years, and I was tired of speakers on poles. I play the same hall, even now, 3 times a month when I can. It's not a paid gig. I get some help to carry stuff, but I'm usually early so going in it's my job.

I also plan to carry the thing around in an RV so it had to be rugged and compact.

I never saw one until about 3 years ago, and there is no local dealer, despite that, they keep showing up.

As to Stereo, I play keyboard/organ, or horn over backing tracks. Many halls are L shaped, irregular or you end up in a bar with the sound system pointing all kinds of wrong ways. It almost never worked well, and try and setup a stereo system yourself with an audience in the room. It's not happening. If you have a sound guy, or 3 or 4 people who all need to come out of specific speakers and are playing at large venues, sure go for it, get stacks of speakers and cross overs and bass bins, the whole 9 yards. A big mixer about 100 feet in front of the stage is good too. Along with ten grand worth of lighting and a program to run it.

As for myself I can open the back of the Mini, cart in the 2 poles and my keyboard, come back for the base and bass module and I'm done. Setup is 5 minutes. No poles. In a room that seats 300 with theatre plush seats and carpet, a room that made my old system have to push the highs to be heard, I get comments all the time. That from the 'crowd' who wear a lot of hearing aids, and who complained if they were close to the system.

From the back corner to the front of the room it's 90 feet, and the one wireless mic works fine.

An no one has tripped on a cord and almost toppled a speaker.

I still have the system on poles. I sold 2 of the speakers, I still have 2 older ones. And the powered mixer. And cables cables cables.

John Conley
Musica est vita