Don’t what to say something bad about the dead but Rest in Peace.
However, Bose’s products are junk, whether your car comes with it or that radio you see an ad for on TV ever few commercials, Bose products sound terrible.
The saying, no highs no lows, must be Bose is accurate.
I wish I could remember who it was but Bose was showing his speakers at an expo when another manufacturer created a bunch of buttons that said, B.S. but spelled out. Pretty funny.
I had a car with Bose speakers that died and Bose said they’d replace them for free. Six months later and no speakers, I went to Frys and bought regular speakers (Bose were, I believe 4 ohm) and the teenage salesman said the speakers I was looking at would never work as Bose are specialy designed. Since I design and build audio equipment in my spare time, his advice meant nothing to me. The 8 ohm speakers I bought worked fine and sounded excellent. I replaced them in the parking lot at Frys, I was tempted to get the ‘audio expert’ to listen to how it sounded but I didn’t care enough. I should have asked him what 4 ohms means and why does it matter?
Buy Other Sound Equipment
Very mid-range-y. An often voiced phrase about the speakers.
The higher impedance will only lower the available power the car’s audio amplifier can put out before it starts clipping (distorting severely). The up side is the speaker damping should be better.
Feel better now?
You sound like a legend in your own mind.
Your experience proves nothing about the quality of Bose products other than you have had problems; not all do, you know.
I have a Bose radio/CD player and my wife and I love it.
I also have Bose speakers for my computer. Same.
We just disagree. That’s all.
Actually, possibly depending on the time frame, Bose car speakers were 1 ohm impedance, so if the car had amps made for those speakers, running 8 ohm speakers made for a pretty big sensitivity hit. But, if the new speakers played loud enough for you, the amp was loafing, and you’d probably never blow it.
The electronics likely also had equalization built in to boost the highs and lows of the Bose speakers, so you probably got LOTS of highs and lows with the new speakers in there. :-)
Strictly speaking, the old Bose 901’s (the “direct / reflecting” home speakers Bose was best known for, until the Wave Radio came along) also had eq. to boost the highs and lows to a respectable level. The real problem was that this eq. required a LOT of power on the low end, and the speakers were subject to a LOT of harmonic and intermodulation distortion if “pushed” on the low end. Even the later ported versions were much improved by adding a good subwoofer.