Quote Originally Posted by byungwook
Then, I found hundreds of negative postings about Bose and felt terrible/stupid.
I did not even know that Bose is an over-priced brand.
...if you take the words you read as gospel and follow some of the advice found on these interweb sites, you will need to spend $1000US for interconnects and similar amounts for speaker wire...that hospital-grade electrical outlets will improve the sound of your system...believe that tone controls and equalizers are the work of the Devil...that CD transports affect the sound...that you need brass cones, granite slabs, sandbags and piles of otherwise inert materials to stabilize your components...that all electro-dynamic loudspeakers are inferior...that high prices equate to better performance...that...that...well, you get the picture...

Yes Bose is over-priced...you can't swing a dead cat without seeing their advertising in one form of media or another, and someone has to pay for it...guess who? Their Lifestyle systems are closed-loop, meaning they can't be used with other components...the reasoning being it provides installation simplicity...the size of the components (particularly the loudspeakers) get high WAF(Wife Approval Factor) for being unobtrusive...there are, obviously, trade-offs as there are with most products or services...

Ther bottom line is that if you like the way they sound, why would you listen to anyone else's opinion? Who is paying for it you or them? If you don't like it, that's one thing, but to let a bunch of anonymous, opinionated dingbats make up your mind for you is foolish IMHO...

jimHJJ(...just this dingbat's POV...)