Bose System!!!!
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From: tucson AZ
St. Jude Donor '04 & '05
Bose System!!!!
Let me tell you....this system is working good since I changed the rear speakers....I'm happy....a pig in poop...Why doe's everyone say to change this system???????????????
When it really works quite well...
tony
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When it really works quite well...
tony
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From: SCMR Rat Pack'r Charter Member, Inland Empire Chapter
Re: Bose System!!!! (oldace84)
CD has never worked, passenger side back speaker/amp is totally dead...never worked since i adopted the vette...drivers side front speaker/amp SCREECHES or is dead fairly often. Sometimes it works great though. Id replace it in a heartbeat except that I havent seen any with matching orange lights :-( Ill prolly pay out the nose to get the Bose repaired :cry
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From: Ashford CT
Re: Bose System!!!! (DarkHalo)
A lot of the newer head units have switchable illumination, i.e. orange, green, etc. But if you're serious about car audio, you won't care if the face of your stereo matches the rest of the color of your car's dashboard. This would be especially true if you were to install say a dvd player with a TFT screeen. Those have SCREEN SAVERS :thumbs:
Darn, I wish I hadn't gotten on this topic. If I decide the to replace the stereo in the vette it's gonna cost me big dinero cause I don't do stereos without really doing stereos. I'm pushing 280 watts RMS into each of the front doors of my Tahoe. That's RMS, not peak. I must be crazy... :crazy:
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Darn, I wish I hadn't gotten on this topic. If I decide the to replace the stereo in the vette it's gonna cost me big dinero cause I don't do stereos without really doing stereos. I'm pushing 280 watts RMS into each of the front doors of my Tahoe. That's RMS, not peak. I must be crazy... :crazy:
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From: SCMR Rat Pack'r Charter Member, Inland Empire Chapter
Re: Bose System!!!! (Hamert)
A lot of the newer head units have switchable illumination, i.e. orange, green, etc. But if you're serious about car audio, you won't care if the face of your stereo matches the rest of the color of your car's dashboard. This would be especially true if you were to install say a dvd player with a TFT screeen. Those have SCREEN SAVERS :thumbs:
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Re: Bose System!!!! (DarkHalo)
DarkHalo,
So if I want to keep the bose set-up....what system do you recommend for cd/cassette...maybe Mid America, or Corvette Central....I just want to play either CD"s or tapes plus AM/FM Radio....don't know whom to buy from....cost is kinda high...what are your feelings on this update.....I've seen you on the forum alot....sooooooooo....what do you think????
thanks
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So if I want to keep the bose set-up....what system do you recommend for cd/cassette...maybe Mid America, or Corvette Central....I just want to play either CD"s or tapes plus AM/FM Radio....don't know whom to buy from....cost is kinda high...what are your feelings on this update.....I've seen you on the forum alot....sooooooooo....what do you think????
thanks
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From: Duncanville Tx.
Re: Bose System!!!! (DarkHalo)
A lot of the newer head units have switchable illumination, i.e. orange, green, etc. But if you're serious about car audio, you won't care if the face of your stereo matches the rest of the color of your car's dashboard. This would be especially true if you were to install say a dvd player with a TFT screeen. Those have SCREEN SAVERS :thumbs:
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Well, Im not one of those guys thats afraid of change or of technology...as a network administrator I live or die professionally by my ability to adapt to and embrace bleeding edge technologies. However, when it comes to my vette I sorta want to keep it the way the General designed it at least on the surface. If I can find a good system with orange lights that physically fits very well Ill go for it. Otherwise Ill stick with the Bose. :blueangel:
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Well, Im not one of those guys thats afraid of change or of technology...as a network administrator I live or die professionally by my ability to adapt to and embrace bleeding edge technologies. However, when it comes to my vette I sorta want to keep it the way the General designed it at least on the surface. If I can find a good system with orange lights that physically fits very well Ill go for it. Otherwise Ill stick with the Bose. :blueangel:
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From: RI
Re: Bose System!!!! (oldace84)
come to new england and I'll show you why. Its the pursuit of sonic excellence and that requires the right equipment and money. Bose is a step above Kraco in this department. Designed by engineers with cost constraints and lack of vision of what good sound should be. My black car in my sig picture of KITT, the sound system I have paid cash for is over $75000. Look at its response on a RTA (real time analyzer) and you'll see that it is sonically perfect and I have the trophies to prove it. Bose is good for what you paid for it, but in no way comes close to what music should sound like.
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Re: Bose System!!!! (DarkHalo)
darkhalo - mosey on over to the audio forum before you consider repairing the bose. Figure out what it will cost to repair the bose and post a thread looking for alternatives with that same budget. You'll be pleasantly surprised. Best improvement I ever made to my vette. It's my daily driver, so I needed a decent sound system, plus since it's a vert, needed something to overcome the road noise. Lastly, in addition to alpine, I believe the nakamichi decks use orange faces.
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From: Dewdney BC
Re: Bose System!!!! (oldace84)
I like the looks of the stock bose unit, but the sound leaves something to be desired. :nonod: Left rear speaker went on me one day, scared the you know what outta me :bb Sounded like an airliner had just landed inside the hatch. So for me it's stock bose, and ignore the squeals :seeya
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From: San Pedro CA
Re: Bose System!!!! (oldace84)
when the bose came out in 1984, it was the best thing on earth. period.
it surpassed many aftermarket systems of their day. it sounded nice, rich, powerful.
I remember the first time I ever heard a bose in a 1984 corvette. It was June of 83, and the owner had just acquired his new vette about 2 months earlier. It sounded so nice.
however, they have not aged well. the speakers have been found to be junk. nasty paper cones with cheap rubber surrounds. they don't hold up. top that off with amps that just don't hold up.
Then there is the cost of rebuilding the system... be it the head/receiver module, or amp/speaker modules. that can get into big bucks.
unless you are concerned with NCRS standards, ditch it.
And don't buy one of those POS's in the various corvette catalogs.
Go Alpine for the head unit, and Polk GRX series for speakers. this is a nice, cheap, quality sounding system that will do everything you want for about $400.00.
if you want more, beleive me, there is more... amps, speakers, processors, eq's... the sky's the limit.
feel free to email/IM me if you want to chat car stereo in more detail, or, even better, start a thread out in the Audio section.
it surpassed many aftermarket systems of their day. it sounded nice, rich, powerful.
I remember the first time I ever heard a bose in a 1984 corvette. It was June of 83, and the owner had just acquired his new vette about 2 months earlier. It sounded so nice.
however, they have not aged well. the speakers have been found to be junk. nasty paper cones with cheap rubber surrounds. they don't hold up. top that off with amps that just don't hold up.
Then there is the cost of rebuilding the system... be it the head/receiver module, or amp/speaker modules. that can get into big bucks.
unless you are concerned with NCRS standards, ditch it.
And don't buy one of those POS's in the various corvette catalogs.
Go Alpine for the head unit, and Polk GRX series for speakers. this is a nice, cheap, quality sounding system that will do everything you want for about $400.00.
if you want more, beleive me, there is more... amps, speakers, processors, eq's... the sky's the limit.
feel free to email/IM me if you want to chat car stereo in more detail, or, even better, start a thread out in the Audio section.
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Re: Bose System!!!! (oldace84)
I bought a Kenwood 10 disc changer, put it in the cargo area. It works off of RF. No connections to the head unit in the dash. It also plays Mp3's. So I effectively have about 1,500 songs at my fingertips. I put 10 discs in about 3 months ago with about 150 songs on each disc. I havn't changed them since and I keep finding new songs that I didn't even know I saved on those discs. My stock Bose system still works perfectly. I think a lot of the logevty issues around the bose systems is how the car has been stored over the years. If it has been through extremes in temperature and humidity I think the lifespan of the speakers and the amps are shortened.
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Re: Bose System!!!! (biggrizzly)
I bought a Kenwood 10 disc changer, put it in the cargo area. It works off of RF. No connections to the head unit in the dash...
Melting Slicks
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From: Chesapeake Beach Maryland
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Re: Bose System!!!! (linkschamp)
My son would be real curious about your changer - can you provide any pics or product info/pointer? :)
Here is a link to one that is on sale right now on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=1942507975
and here is a poor picture of mine tucked in the corner of my cargo area.
HTH
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From: Campbell CA
Re: Bose System!!!! (oldace84)
Tony, as an experiment. Listen to a replaced system in a different vette. You'll be amaised how much better the music sounds when you have more speaker pushing more air. No amount of porting in the world will make up for displacement. (kinda like no replacement for displacement) Anyway, you can also have multiple drivers to cover multiple frequency ranges. The bose 3" single coil drivers can't reproduce the range of audio you can get with a 6x9 tri-ax and a 6 1/2" co-ax driven off a basic head unit. For even better sound add an amp and branch the driver count out to include subs and separate mids and tweets. The technology in the bose system is old and a nifty marketing trend, but not good audio.
With that said, if you are happy with the system, and it works great for you, do not go listen to someone elses stereo in their vette as you'll end up disliking your system.
:cheers:
With that said, if you are happy with the system, and it works great for you, do not go listen to someone elses stereo in their vette as you'll end up disliking your system.
:cheers:
