listening experience is more important. And that is more satisfying in Bose.
I have never felt like doing anything but walking away from
every Bose system I have ever seen. As you say, technical education was not necessary: it was the listening that counted.
I'm not a film or HT man. I never go to the cinema, I see a film on the TV, on average, once every year or so. Maybe the cinema experience is as artificial-sounding as some of the HT stuff I have heard? Probably, but hey, it is an utterly different experience from stereo listening to serious music.
But... I've just been talking about the importance and validity of
preference, so, if the Bose experience is yours, fine.
rsud said:
The answer is not technical because what the industry has taught us to believe for "technical" information is frequency range, distortion, watts are all ambiguous measurements with no standard and that can be falsified.
Example frequency range doesn't tell you the fidelity to the original signal. Distortion doesn't either as its usually a test sine wave and not actual music signal and fidelity to it. Neither does watts since the info can be fudged by reporting at a single frequency, etc. All generally meaningless.
There's a huge difference between
specifications and
measurements. The former, in any hifi company, let alone Bose, have probably been carefully picked and presented by the marketing men and their graphic artists. The latter, if from a truly independent source might tell much more. Frequency range may say little to nothing about the sound, but a frequency response chart, showing that chunks of sound are almost missing, and others are emphasised,
is going to say, at least,
this is not high fidelity.
