[mythtv-users] Looking for high WAF in-wall speakers!!

Meatwad meatwad.get.the.honeys at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 03:19:28 UTC 2006


Richard Bronosky wrote:

> Why is it that Bose can use those tiny little cube speakers for there
> flag ship product, but their in-wall speakers have to have a 8 3/4" by
> 6" face plate?

Bose use tiny little cube speakers in their flagship product because a) 
they have a very high WAF, b)they are INSANELY inexpensive to 
manufacture and c)they are marketed towards upscale consumers who read 
high-brow magazines without bothering to learn even the most basic 
tenets* of proper loudspeaker design.

Don't know why they took a traditional design approach to their in-walls 
seeing as nearly everything else they design is non-traditional. FWIW, 
they still sound absolutely awful.

In-walls can sound fantastic when designed well with quality components. 
Look at Sonance, RBH, Polk or Niles just to name a few of the entry 
level players. If your budget allows and you want to get very accurate 
sound from in-ceiling speakers, look at Triad. Another in-wall/ceiling 
which has a very different approach with some amazingly detailed imagery 
are Cabasse iO coaxials.

But please, please, please do your Myth system some justice and put 
something, ANYTHING, other than Bose in the room.

* Here is the de facto article I refer prospective clients to when they 
bring up Bose. If they still have a thing for Bose, I know they are 
going to be PITA customer and I politely drop them like a hot potato.
http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html



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