On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 13:10:47 -0500, Poco Deplorevole
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On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:55:47 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 08:06:46 -0500, Poco Deplorevole
wrote:

On Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:00:26 -0500, wrote:

I got a Bose Solo 15 for Christmas, convincing my wife that it would look nicer and sound better
than what we had for a TV sound system. So I took what we had, a Bose Lifestyle 25, and hooked it up
to my computer. Now I get some pretty decent sound out of this thing.

We both have nice PC speaker sets with the sub woof by our chairs
hooked to the TV. My wife has a Bose and mine is Creative.
Combined with the big screen, it does enhance the movie experience.
Most of the time we just use the TV sound tho.

I had this system for the PC, and it sounded good for a PC system:

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Z-23.../dp/B0002SQ2P2

But the Bose system kinda blows it away.

Bose has it's own sound. There are people who don't think it is
"true", others think it is the best. After 30 years working in a
computer room I have a notch in my hearing that takes out a lot of the
spectrum so I am not the best judge.
There are some very capable "PC Speaker" systems tho. I have a bunch
of them around here that I have collected over the years. I am
thinking about putting a sub woof back in my car. I took the one I had
out when I switched from a PC based MP3 player to a dash mounted unit
but the speakers in the car still are not good in the low frequencies,
As long as you are playing "oldies" mixed to play best on the AM radio
it is not an issue but newer music is mixed for sub woofers. That even
seems to be true of the album version of old songs. I have a pretty
good mix I put together to test sound system. "Video" by India Arie
may be as good a sub woof test as anything. They come in about 30
seconds into the song with a base drum beat that overwhelms a stock
car speaker system but will rattle the windows in the car next to you
if you have a sub woof cranked up.
OTOH a Motown recording with a strong base beat like "Papa was a
rolling stone" still plays well on the stock car speakers and the sub
woof does not change it all that much even in the remixed CD version.
If you are playing early 60s stuff you quickly realize those sounds
are simply not there. I think that Brill Building crap was mixed to
play well on the phone.