Bose Acoustimass Series IV

Your money will be better spent elsewhere. For less than half the price of the Bose option currently at Amazon you can get the Onkyo HT-S5400 7.1 that will have superior audio performance and flexibility. You do not necessarily have to run it with all 7 speakers, 5.1 should work just fine.


There are plenty of other similar options from various companies that would serve you well also. Now you can save that extra cash for later or on something else.


Best Regards

KvE

As you will soon read, steer away from Bose AM systems. Your $1000 can be applied to better speakers. Especially in a 5x5 room (closet?).

Look at the Martin Logan
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...WD0MTZ1XCAXJQM



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As you will soon read, steer away from Bose AM systems. Your $1000 can be applied to better speakers. Especially in a 5x5 room (closet?).

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True, it was intended to be a closet. But I figured it would be a good home theater room, albeit a small one. That way we can use our bedrooms as exclusively bedrooms. Maybe we can stretch it up to 8m x 6m the most.


Question with the ONKYO. It's a HTIB right? Will it be better than Bose + Receiver? Also... I'm upgrading from a Samsung HTIB. Will it be better than my former 3-year-old Samsung HTIB? They said that separate receiver is the way to go nowadays.



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Look at the Martin Logan
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...WD0MTZ1XCAXJQM

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This one looks good... kinda looks like my current system but it's 50% cheaper than Acoustimass.



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5x5 or 6x8, IMO use your existing HTiB. Once you add a TV and a chair, you'd be lucky to have enough room for headphones.

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If he is talking meters, which I think he is that room is not all that small. 15ft x 15ft or 18ft x 24ft are really not that small. If it was 5ft x 5ft or 6ft x 8ft I would totally agree though.



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This one looks good... kinda looks like my current system but it's 50% cheaper than Acoustimass.

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The Bose and Samsung, can not compete with the Martin Logan

While Bose gets bashed a lot on this forum, the Acoustimass is really the really the lowest of Bose product (okay, tied with the 321 system- haven't heard the lifestyle system).

Any Bose "cube" system is going to be lacking in response at several different frequencies (really, not just Bose, but most any system with 2 or 2 1/2 inch drivers) and the Bose Bass module isn't a true subwoofer, so it won't produce the low end of the bass spectrum.

As pointed out, for the type of money you are talking, you can get Jamo, Energy, ML, Polk or any number of really good speakers, an AVR and a decent sub! Get speakers with at least a 4 inch driver/woofer and a tweeter...



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As pointed out, for the type of money you are talking, you can get Jamo, Energy, ML, Polk or any number of really good speakers, an AVR and a decent sub! Get speakers with at least a 4 inch driver/woofer and a tweeter...

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While I wholeheartedly agree with your comments, I'm wondering if there is need for 4" drivers in the center chanel. I thought most dialog came through the center channel and that smaller drivers could handle those frequencies.

My case is a bit unique, I have to "build-in" my center channel and I only have 3" in height. It's a long story but it's part of a fireplace/TV and that's the allocated space.

The Energy center channel comes close, but at 3.5" it doesn't cut it. I need to find a 3" high center that matches acoustically with something like the ML's or Energy units.

Since he said he could stretch the room to 8m x 6m I am pretty certain he meant 5m x 5m.



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Since he said he could stretch the room to 8m x 6m I am pretty certain he meant 5m x 5m.

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That is what I was going by, I figured it was probably supposed to be a walk in closet.

And here I thought this thread was going to be a funny take on the typical Bose bash, saying they'd make great speakers for a walk-in closet...

LOL. Sorry for the lack of clarification, I'm talking about METERS. As specified in my follow-up post in case someone missed, I may be able to stretch the room to 8m x 6m.


Originally our lay out was planned to have two walk-in closets with 4m x 3.5m dimensions.


Thanks for the suggestions all! The only problem I'll be facing is the availability of those speakers in my country (Philippines). Maybe I'll just use Amazon again.