Reviews for Bose® Companion® 2 Series II Multimedia Speaker System

I live in a pre-war high rise apartment building in San Francisco made of concrete and NOT sound proof. If I just have these up just above listening level I hear banging from the neighbors. I also have a Bose Sound Dock 9 (the largest one) I can't even use that one in this building as I have already got a noise warning from the landlord. I once had my own condo and was not renting so there is the dilemma. I wish Bose would put a bass modulator or control on these bad boys.....love the bass....but some do not.

5 of 17 people found this useful

The speakers are aesthically pleasing, nice rubber feet and a good solid feel out of the box, after that I was less than thrilled. The sound quality is good at a low to medium volume, but the impressiveness ended there. About 3/4 through the volume dials range the volume did not change at all. The sound began to fluctuate and flutter about and the quality of sound dropped off. I was looking for a set of speakers that could provide some volume to a large living room, but I wouldnt recommend these speakers for that purpose. They are an excellent set of speakers for your computer or small office and or bedroom. I returned this product and upgraded.

30 of 36 people found this useful

While these Bose speakers do a good job of bringing a rich sound from the iMac I have them attached to, they cannot handle any other electrical devices being in the area. They start to feedback when left idle. I was not expecting this and have concluded I would buy a better set of speakers later.

34 of 38 people found this useful

I just want to react to someones comment : "The audio quality is swell and can be turned up very loud without damaging the sound quality. "

This is false since there is an electronic control witch "removes" the loudness when the speakers are pushed a little. While listening to pop music at medium volume, soft parts of the songs will be given a lot of bass while hardcore parts of the songs will be mid-high, without bass. This is what I call "damaging the sound quality".

If you just want to listen to music at low volume, than it's a good choice (considering there's no tweeters).

9 of 11 people found this useful

The base is great. The sound is crisp. The volume is just not there! I live in an apartment and the neighbors will never complain. I wanted a little more umph. I teach dance and wanted to take to class but this will never work. These speakers would be great in a small office.

11 of 18 people found this useful

If you are looking for decent speakers these may fit the bill. But there are better speakers for $100. Due to the DSP they use to process the sound, the sound is big, but the bass is definitely not tight and punchy. When watching movies in iTunes, you sometimes have to turn up the volume too loud to hear the voices, but then the bass is way too much. Be sure to try other speakers before purchasing these ones.

26 of 30 people found this useful

These speakers are always on--they have no power on/off button. If you have an iPhone near them (near meaning in the same room) they will pick up what's called the "GSM buzz" if you're running on the Edge network. This problem doesn't happen with iPhone's running on the 3G network.

I keep my iPhone 3G on Edge because of dropped call problems and battery life, but doing so causes the nearby speaker buzz. In a perfect world, I'd just turn off the speakers when not in use, but that's not possible.

Otherwise, the speakers sound good, not excellent. I'd echo much of what else has been said here in other reviews. To get the most out of the speakers I've had to spend more time adjusting the equalizer than with a previous set of JBL computer speakers. Bass can be too low and highs can be too high, but the quality overall is good. But perhaps not $99 good.

26 of 32 people found this useful

The sound was pretty good, but not worth all the praise these Bose speakers are getting. I guaruntee that one of the bigger versions of these speakers will perform much better than this one.
Not quite worth the $90.

19 of 38 people found this useful

For the money these are great sounding speakers, great highs and amazing lows. And sideways they fit perfectly and look great under my 30'' Cinema display, matching the aesthetics spot on. My only complaint is that like most speakers, they do not appear to be shielded against GSM interference, so if you have an iPhone or other GSM phone and its with you most of the time within five feet or so of these things, the loud intermittent GSM buzzing might just drive you crazy!

88 of 133 people found this useful

First of all before I critique the speakers, I will say for the money they have excellent sound.

I do think that the product photo is a misrepresentation of their true color. The only thing silver on the speakers is the grill. I was excited thinking that the entire speaker would be silver to match my Mac Book Pro and Cinema Display. In fact the metallic that is on the front doesn't match the mac products.

If I was expecting the black backs then I would give them a 5 star review. I am disappointed because they don't match my set up very well.

30 of 73 people found this useful