Home Audio / Re: SPDIF support

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On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

> On 4/8/07, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>> I stand by the statement that neither Bose or Pioneer Elite are  
>> crap-level.
>
>  I don't think Bose is crap, either.  Indeed, my Wave Radio sounds a
> lot better than some of the home theater systems I've heard.  :)

For me,  a speaker should reproduce a sound faithfully and  
accurately, without imparting it's own color or style on that sound.   
In that regard, Bose speakers fail miserably, and thus fall into  
"crap-level" as I said before.  For most people they confuse "better"  
with "radically different".  Bose equipment tends to impart it's own  
coloring on the audio, with particular frequencies having a tendency  
to be vastly over and under driven.  To many people, that massive  
coloring of the sound is something they haven't heard before, and  
they mistake it for a more accurate or richer sound.  The Wave Radio  
in particular sounds muddy to me on the mids and lows and chirpy on  
the high frequencies.