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Bookshelf speakers...Athena’s vs bose???

432HzBob said:
Bose's aren't terrible. They make sound. I had a pair of Series II 301's (supposedly the good models) and they made sound, and made ok mid-bass.. Always believed they would make great garage/shop speakers where critical reproduction is not important. Ran for almost a year until these Missions appeared at a thrift for $20. Donated the Bose and a Luxman R-404 receiver to a friend who's happy with the setup.
But no way ever in a million years would those 301's have the sweet, crisp highs as recapped Missions, while the Missions hold their own in vocals and low end. Naturally, a nice sub improves that as little speakers just aren;t made to rumble the house.
I've never heard Athena's but I have heard Missions and I like them. Even if the boxes aren;t super stout like more expensive speakers, they take well to a few pieces of side-side and fore-aft bracing inside.
And they are acoustic suspension (sealed box), so they'll eat up some amp power for volume while the cones won;t go all mushy and uncontrolled like ported speakers.
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What are the missions and the model #?
The ones with huge woofer. ??
Yeah Bose aren’t terrible a few models were good but those cube speakers ...ewww
Yeah those Athena floor standers look nice , Boses best speaker were there floor standers ? Why discontinued
 
432HzBob said:
Bose's aren't terrible. They make sound. I had a pair of Series II 301's (supposedly the good models) and they made sound, and made ok mid-bass.. Always believed they would make great garage/shop speakers where critical reproduction is not important. Ran for almost a year until these Missions appeared at a thrift for $20. Donated the Bose and a Luxman R-404 receiver to a friend who's happy with the setup.
But no way ever in a million years would those 301's have the sweet, crisp highs as recapped Missions, while the Missions hold their own in vocals and low end. Naturally, a nice sub improves that as little speakers just aren;t made to rumble the house.
I've never heard Athena's but I have heard Missions and I like them. Even if the boxes aren;t super stout like more expensive speakers, they take well to a few pieces of side-side and fore-aft bracing inside.
And they are acoustic suspension (sealed box), so they'll eat up some amp power for volume while the cones won;t go all mushy and uncontrolled like ported speakers.
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What are the missions and the model #?
The ones with huge woofer. ??
Yeah Bose aren’t terrible a few models were good but those cube speakers ...ewww
Yeah those Athena floor standers look nice , Boses best speaker were there floor standers ? Why discontinued , and why did they never use more advanced driver:s?
 
Nobody but Bose knows the answer to that.
I had a friend once who had 4 901's in the living room that sounded ok, but only if you used the Bose EQ that came with them.
Very flat without it.
As I demand a clear and tight high end to music, Bose speakers just never hit the high notes right. Mids ok, bass isn;t that hard to make right, but that vocals+high end combination is the battle every speaker manufacturer has problems with.
 
432hz, i’m looking at thd same speakers 761i’s. How do you like yours? I don’t think they have paper cones? Right?
Fab
 
432HzBob said:
Nobody but Bose knows the answer to that.
I had a friend once who had 4 901's in the living room that sounded ok, but only if you used the Bose EQ that came with them.
Very flat without it.
As I demand a clear and tight high end to music, Bose speakers just never hit the high notes right. Mids ok, bass isn;t that hard to make right, but that vocals+high end combination is the battle every speaker manufacturer has problems with.
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Bose is like a brand that stopped at mediocre , and made a good pair of floor standers . Then threw in the towel , and said were going for profit now. Better sound through marketing “! Bose
 
432HzBob said:
Nobody but Bose knows the answer to that.
I had a friend once who had 4 901's in the living room that sounded ok, but only if you used the Bose EQ that came with them.
Very flat without it.
As I demand a clear and tight high end to music, Bose speakers just never hit the high notes right. Mids ok, bass isn;t that hard to make right, but that vocals+high end combination is the battle every speaker manufacturer has problems with.
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Bose is like a brand that stopped at mediocre , and made a good pair of floor standers . Then threw in the towel , and said were going for profit now. Better sound through marketing “! Bose .
I guess reminds me of those white van speakers who copy klipsch , except Bose has market command sells to non audiophiles in mass quantities.
It’s a real shocker that people buy a speaker for Its name, Bose is like the adidas of speaker world . Never as good as ASICS or nike.
 
My parents had a Lifestyle (cube) system for years and they seemed to like it.
This, they bought when they came out, giving up the decent Yamaha Natural Sound receiver and Klipsch KG4 system they had previously.
I could never say anything about how they went backwards in evolution..
But they never paid too much attention to differences in sound anyway. :dunno:
 
432HzBob said:
My parents had a Lifestyle (cube) system for years and they seemed to like it.
This, they bought when they came out, giving up the decent Yamaha Natural Sound receiver and Klipsch KG4 system they had previously.
I could never say anything about how they went backwards in evolution..
But they never paid too much attention to differences in sound anyway. :dunno:
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Same reason cars that look square and have hamster commercials and become popular ?
¥^!| sounds like better sound threw marking ??
You should have rescued there old system haha .

No reason that makes sense , cubes sell well I guess !:bigok: Even if there’ trash , and Cost 16 cents To make in China.
 
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