Author Topic: Anyone tried the Bose Personal Amplification System? (Read 478 times)

811952 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 31, 2006, 07:33:34 AM »

Bill,

Our guitarist has one of those ubiquitous cheap Behringer mixers with built-in FX and graphic EQ. It always sounds bad when we use it, but he insists anyway for the flexibility it provides. The mics he uses are dissimilar and very, very cheap, which obviously doesn't help, especially since they sound completely different and need EQ. The Bose has presets for different mics, but we can't use that when we use the mixer because we're feeding it one mixed signal (talk about mixed signals!). He's got a Carr amp and several expensive guitars (which he literally tosses into his guitar stand!), but doesn't really understand the concepts of garbage in = garbage out or weakest link as they relate to an audio signal, exemplified by the fact that he uses only the cheapest cables to connect everything (guitars, amps and PA) and they're always failing (he yanks on them, wads them up in a ball and trips over them regularly). Oi. Sorry about the rant...

If you use a small mixer, matched mics, good cables, watch your levels and leave all the EQ-ing to the Bose system, you'll probably get excellent results. It's an amazing little system.

John

kmh364 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 31, 2006, 08:11:24 AM »

I will admit that the Bose promise does seem tempting: easy to carry and set-up with no monitors. The price, however, is ridiculous. I also do not believe it can handle vocals AND all the instruments WITHOUT primary amplification. I'm sure it's good for acoustic music and jazz or just vocals in a small room, but that's about it IMHO.

811952 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 31, 2006, 08:27:29 AM »

Kevin,

My brain tells me to agree with you, because we've not run the instruments through the 2 of them. Having said that, 1 of them with vocals will easily compete with my 2 410 cabinets and 500 watts of bass cranked up, drums, keyboards and a very loud guitar. I would really recommend Bill finding one or two to borrow for an evening to test, or locate a band that's using them and give it a listen. People are AMAZED that they are all we're using for a PA system. The price is ridiculous, except that you don't need to spend a dime on a monitor system and they don't feedback. While I would like to hear an upright bass through it, I sure as heck couldn't afford one.

John

jlpicard · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2006, 11:14:28 AM »

joey, I agree. It's a pity they don't make thoseoriginal boxes anymore. I personally feel that the new stuff Vented box, coax drivers) don'tsound as good or uncolored.

edwin · « **Reply #19 on:** January 31, 2006, 06:44:21 PM »

From what the EA site says, 2 out of 5 cabs are transmission line. Seems like you can still get that sound if you want it. I have a couple of the CXL12s, which sound very nice indeed. I usually use one along with an Acme B2.

Edwin

yggdrasil · « **Reply #20 on:** February 02, 2006, 01:55:32 PM »

My read of the EA site is that all their speakers are transmission line (?):

Every EA speaker cabinet and amplifier features the absolute finest components from the best suppliers:* Transmission Line design (snip)

from:

http://www.euphonicaudio.com/2005/products.htm

and you can find no mention of the Oriental guy that designed all of their cool stuff.

I had an email from John Dong last Sept. - he was still there then.

And he's still grinning on this page:

http://www.euphonicaudio.com/2005/eafamily/company.htm

Frank (Aguilar DB359 through EA CXL-112)

jlpicard · « **Reply #21 on:** February 02, 2006, 02:22:35 PM »

I have A-B'ed them and still prefer the old ones. Not that the new ones sound bad, just a personal preference.