Bose® Acoustimass® 16 Series II home entertainment speaker system – Black
- Five cube speaker arrays
- One horizontal center channel speaker
- Designed to work with your 6.1-channel components
- Powered Acoustimass® module
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… More >>
Bose® Acoustimass® 16 Series II home entertainment speaker system – Black
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5 comments
Armando Aguirre Urbina on October 10, 2009 at 5:24 pm
excelente calidad de sonido, he escuchado muchos comentarios negativos , sobre los productos bose , pero la verdad es que la calidad de esas pequeñas speakers ,es excelente muy nitida , tengo un av receiver DENON avr 2807, y es excelente la combinacion , de todo el DVD , X BOX 360 se oye estupendo , he escuchado otros equipos mas costosos y voluminosos ,de marcas reconocidas y no le piden nada a este estupendo equipo , yo lo adoro , i love it …
Steven Burke on October 10, 2009 at 7:19 pm
BOSE is a marketing machine, plain and simple. You see them everywhere you look, on the television, on billboards, in magazines; they saturate you with advertisements.
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. He had everything set-up and we listened to a few DVD’s and a few tracks. 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. To illustrate this we listened to the first few second of “Down In It” from the debut Nine Inch Nails album, “Pretty Hate Machine”. 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.
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.
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.
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.
If I had to rate this system on its CONS and PROS:
PROS – very easy set-up with wiring, tiny satellite speakers
CONS – sound, the bass is muddy and doesn’t get low, the highs are nowhere to be seen.
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.
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. 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.
CP on October 10, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I bought this product despite reading several forums that consistantly bash Bose products. I am not an audiophile so I don’t need the best possible speakers for my system. 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.
A. Nguyen on October 10, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I’ve recently purchased this bose speaker system and pair it with my SR605 receiver. It sounds great. 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? How would I hook it up? Thanks
Kiran K. Moturi on October 10, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Bose is my first home theater system. I never wanted a super jazzy system which can blow the roof top, I always wanted to have a decent home theater system to watch and enjoy movies from my childhood days and growing up always wanted BOSE. Till now everything I listen to on BOSE has been fantastic and excellent. It did live up to my expectations and I have fallen in love with it.