Bose® Acoustimass® 16 Series II home entertainment speaker system - Black
Standard surround sound provides five channels for surround effects. But with 6.1-channel surround sound, the Acoustimass® 16 Series II speaker system increases the impact of home theater listening with a rear center speaker for even greater drama and realism.This heightened experience in music and motion picture listening is the result of a powered Acoustimass module. This innovative module uses proprietary Bose technology to bring depth to the rumble of a passing train, or the resonance of a baritone's voice. The module can be hidden nearly anywhere in the room. You enjoy rich, colorful sound that appears to come only from the small speaker arrays.Imagine your favorite movie in Bose 6.1-channel surround sound. Footsteps click on the sidewalk behind you. A flute plays to your left. Voices, front and center. The new horizontal center channel speaker array keeps dialogue focused on the screen and visually complements flat-panel TVs. The Direct/Reflecting® cube speaker arrays envelop you with surround sound effects. Just 6 inches tall, these arrays deliver high and midrange frequencies so you enjoy crisp, clear reproduction of movies and music.And even though you're enveloped by 6.1-channel surround sound, your room isn't overwhelmed with equipment. The small speakers can attach to your walls or sit stylishly on an end table with our accessory speaker mounting options.
Bose® Acoustimass® 16 Series II home entertainment speaker system - Black Accessories
 Bose UB-20 Wall/Ceiling Bracket (each) - BLACK
Bose UFS-20 Universal Floor Stands (pair) - Black
HDMI Cable 2M (6 Feet)
Bose UTS-20 Universal Table Stands (each) - Black
Cables To Go - 40315 - 2M (6.5ft) Velocity HDMI Digital Video Cable (Blue)
Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote
Onkyo TX-SR805 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver (Black)
Fiber Optical Toslink Digital Audio Optic Interface 6 Foot Cable
PlayStation 3 40GB
PlayStation 3 Dualshock 3 Wireless Controller
Bose® Acoustimass® 16 Series II home entertainment speaker system - Black Reviews
Something more "electric". A little time spent with positioning and balance yields a wonderful blend of direct and reflected sound. From Dylan to Elton, the enhanced sound was clear and distinct. The third downfiring woofer in the 16 can vibrate your floor and still have plenty left with no distortion. BS&T's horns were clear and sharp. From Queen to ELO to Blood, Sweat, and Tears, the sound was rich, clear and fully surround. I decided to try the Acoustimass 16 Series II in a listening/viewing space which has quite a few positioning "challenges".
I also wanted the 16 for its included 6th (rear) cube. Finally, trust your ear; it sure passed my tests of physical adaptability and sound performance - from rattle your windows to quiet clarity. Next the increased sharp sound of SACD. The technology here is amazing; at times you'ld swear the deep sounds are coming from those tiny, adjustable cubes. So I tried and it's true; the Acoustimass 16 has clarity, richness and warmth as it wraps you in sound. The guitars, piano, and voices were clear, and sharp with an overall warmth. Classical pipe organ (there's no better test of a system's range and clarity) in both CD and SACD - unbelievable clarity, richness, range, depth and warmth.
I was looking to replace a hodge-podge 7.1 collection of speakers, so I shopped and read reviews. The set up was easy (color coding, diagrams, descriptions); the supplied cabling was more than adequate, and while the Acoustimass itself is rather large, it fit neatly behind a chair in a corner, visually out of sight, but NOT audibly. TV in SD or HD, or DVD produced clear, full soundstages with distinct, audible dialogue. Clapton's "Unplugged" demonstrated the 16's ability to handle acoustic, soft sound. My Sony 898 AVR has more than enough to drive it, and shows the 6th cube simply plugs into the rear left channel - works great. Wow. With "bashing" criticisms of Bose in mind, I tried a variety of inputs and types of sound.
I have owned 4 different speakers now to know the difference but let me try to stay on point also.Consumer Reports Magazine states that.dont let marketing dictate the quality of your speakers.all the fancy metal, choromium, diaphrams or whatever your speakers are made of doesnt guarantee the audio translated out to what you hear.let your ears decide. WHEN i scurry through different reviews, i read such negative points but many are reviews off of older systems. Now, when comparing the two.the TSS750 did have a clear sounding treble.like when the glass shattered in the matrix movies.you could hear that "KEEEEEESSHH" sound.the emphasize being more on the "eeee" rather than the "ssshhh". My first introduction to Bose products with their Lifestyle system with just 5 speakers and the Acoustimass module that had 2 woofers.i forget the Lifestyle model number.this was back in 2000. My second foray into home theatre "excitement" was switching to the Infinity TSS750, years ago, when it first came out. Besides technically your ears are very unlikely to pick up all the frequency variances marketing touts. My very first interests in Home Theatre was when DVD first came out and Dolby Prologic II was the ticket. This was 1996 i remember.
Series 2 which has the 3 bass woofer speakers on the modual vs the older Bose products. Ok.ciao everyone The new Acoustimass module found only in their flagship speaker setup (Acoustimass 16 Series II)has a total of 3 woofers downward firing. hi everyone, first my setup is a panny 58inch plasma 720p.my bose acoustimass 16 series 2 is the second bose product i have owned.
For me it boiled down to brand quality, great sleek modern looks, and a comparative review of the sound i have come to learn. Forgive my grammar as best you can and pick apart what you can from the review to benefit you. Look, i am just an average techno girl that loves a good hd-surround sound setup. Again, this setup only had 2 woofers. However, the Bose had a warm, richer sound.not as "tinny" as some have described speakers to be. I am a real product owner and the Bose bashing i believe is not based on actual ownership of the Acoustimass 16. Today, I have the Onkyo TXSR705, now paired with the Bose Acoustimass 16 series 2.it sounds TREMENDOUS.yeah it is a more powerful reciever.but also i think that extra woofer gives it a bit more OOMPH. I believe that if you get the best of the bunch.meaning the 16 series 2 that have the 3 woofers in the bass module and pair it with an outstanding av reciever it will ROCK.now for me.its all about movies.not so much music.and maybe crazy audiophiles have a problem with music.its possbile.but the craze now is movies.also.its important that when you hook it up and set your speaker size preferences in the av reicever.that you set it to.LARGE SPEAKERS.THATS RIGHT LARGE SPEAKERS.ITS IN THE MANUAL.i am not some audio crazed expert but I read up on the products I do own.
The movie sounds could be described as sounding "brighter". You can only get the more powerful Bass module with the Acoustimass 16 Series II, which we are reviewing now. Lets have the merits of the Acoustimass 16 Series II be the product that we critque and not lump Bose surround sound speakers. I had the Sony "Twin Tower" speakers that had the circuitry built into the towers.
To illustrate this we listened to the first few second of "Down In It" from the debut Nine Inch Nails album, "Pretty Hate Machine". From the overall sound of these speakers I would have guessed I was listening to a $200 Home Theater in a Box solution. That BOSE charges over $1,000 for the sound I experienced is pretty criminal, but I guess that's what a good marketing department can do. PROS - very easy set-up with wiring, tiny satellite speakers. You see them everywhere you look, on the television, on billboards, in magazines; they saturate you with advertisements. He had everything set-up and we listened to a few DVD's and a few tracks.
The high frequency response of this unit falls off really quickly and made listening to CD sound like a low-quality 128 Kbps.mp3 file. It's a good way to measure how good the bass enclosure is, because it has one solitary low bass bell note to start the song. BOSE is a marketing machine, plain and simple. Pausing the song showed how poor the design of the casing is inside. The note resounded in the cabinet for a whole second afterwards. It was certainly not giving off low frequencies either, despite BOSE's assertion that this unit plays loud and clear to the deepest frequencies.
Well the speakers were definitely being sent the discreet multi-channel mixes from the DVD's we listened to, but it sounded incredibly hollow with no resolve whatsoever in the high end and the bass, or lack thereof, sounded muddy and boomy. Obvious BOSE is thinking of a different species' hearing limits when they refer to the deepest frequencies, because this unit doesn't even come close. Check out the 5.1 and 6.1 systems from Onkyo, JBL, Klipsch, etc., all for around $500 that will easily outperform the rubbish BOSE is pawning off on you. For the $1,000+ that BOSE charges for these speakers you can find solutions that will more than outperform these speakers for under half the cost. Being already familiar with BOSE I was at a friend's house last weekend who had the misfortune of having picked up an Acoustimass 16 in black. If I had to rate this system on its CONS and PROS:.
CONS - sound, the bass is muddy and doesn't get low, the highs are nowhere to be seen.
It sounds great. I've recently purchased this bose speaker system and pair it with my SR605 receiver. Thanks How would I hook it up. However, I want to setup it up as a 7.1 system and i need your advise/suggestion. This speaker system is 6.1 and my receiver is 7.1. Do I buy another pair of speakers for surround sound.
I bought this product despite reading several forums that consistantly bash Bose products. I was looking for a speaker system that would fill the room with good sound, which this system does. They sound great and are barely noticible around the room. I am not an audiophile so I don't need the best possible speakers for my system.
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