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General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Not necessarily.

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When it comes to loudspeakers, one man's meat is another man's poison. Strictly a personal decision. However, I strongly believe there aren't many speakers that are a worse value dollar for dollar than Bose. For what you get, they are grossly over-priced, especially their Acoustamass products. Plastic little satellite boxes and vinyl-clad particle board woofer enclosures, 2" mid/tweeters that can't be worth more than $3 apiece, with 5" or 6" sub-woofers (and I use that term loosly) for $1200 plus? Decide on how much you can afford and buy new speakers with an eye as to how they might fit into future upgrades (incorporating them into a home theater for example) and listen to as many models as you can within your price range. Just don't be a lemming and fall for Dr. Amar's hype.

One more thing. If you're at all handy with simple power tools, consider DIY. There are a lot of well-designed kits available that offer tremendous bang-for-the-buck. Plus, there's the undeniable satisfaction of saying "I did it myself".


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