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

I expected excellent quality with amazing sound, given the brand name. I am sorely disappointed and will be returning these speakers.

The Bose Companion 2 Series are good. The price was right. I use them for my Mac Book Pro laptop. The sound quality is excellent if you have the volume at the mid to max when listing to music or watching a movie. When the speakers are played at a low volume there is some static through the speakers, but not very evident unless you are listening very closely. Overall great and there were cheaper than my Bose headsets go-figure!

Seriously, they don't worth $99 to my ears. I used to be a huge fan of bose, so I own lifestyle series II(OK for movies but not good for music, used only for occasional computer games), sounddock(sitting in a closet, replaced with Fatman iTube Carbon II & Modaunt-Short Mezzo2), mediamate(used in the kitchen, one of the best bose has ever created), IE earphones(acceptable sound but falling apart easily), and this pair(placed in my office but I'm afraid to using them due to horrible sounds). Now, I have compared bose products to others in similar price range and I came to a conclusion that BOSE doesn't cut it, except headphones. Well, I didn't understand why people criticised bose before, but I finally realized they were overated and overpriced for such terrible sound quality. Anyway, these speakers don't produce clear sounds at all. I don't expect sounds like B&W 800D speaker quality. They don't even match the 10year old Mediamate designed for computer or notebook. Before buying these, please, test them in a quite environment running your favorite music and compare with its competitors(if they have any in the same class).

These, my friend, are to die for. I am a hardcore music listener and movie watcher and was looking for a good set of mobile speakers that were $100 or less. After weeks of researching and comparing, I decided to jump on these. I have had them for about a month, and have no complains.

Although it has built in bass, I was shocked on how powerful they were. Now, the bass isn't extreme considering how it has no separate console, but they are great for being built in.

Another plus is the dual inputs. I can hook them up to my laptop as well as run cords to my tv. They are very portable and I have moved them from room to room, hooking them up to different TVs, computers, video game systems, DVD players, etc.

The length of the cord between the two speakers, and the length of the power cord is a little bit on the short end. So if you are planning to hook these up on opposite sides of a room (which I have done) you will need a couple more set of cords to hook it up to. But the sound is incredible and flows around the whole room. Watching movies with them separated is fantastic and worth the 100 dollars. The audio quality is swell and can be turned up very loud without damaging the sound quality.

Overall, this is a fantastic buy and Bose lives up to its name.

These speakers are great. First off, my neighbor gave me these as thanks for fixing her computer. These have been knocked off the desk and slammed on the floor many times by her three hyper daughters and her cat, but they still sound great, at least as good as the demo Companion IIs at the local Bose store which didn't look like they had ever been touched. Very durable speakers. Second, all the sound reproduction is great across the spectrum. I was especially impressed with the bass. It sounds like there really is a subwoofer. Third, nice thick cables that are long enough to position the speakers anywhere you want. Fourth, the the speakers feel very solid. There is a strong metal plate in front that will not bend and the plastic parts even feel like very high quality. Fifth, there are dual red and white audio inputs, so you can connect it to your computer and something else, such as an iPod and the red and white inputs make it easy to connect to a game console or DVD player or TV.

No cons here. Bose has outdone themselves on this system. It's totally worth $100.

I was contemplating these today while buying an iMac. The store demo stopped working, turned out to be faulty wiring. They've probably seen high use and abuse but with parties, teenagers, life, won't they in your home too?
store experience + all these reviews = Harmon Kardon (they sound and look amazing)

These are wonderful speakers. I use them with my iPod and my Macbook, you can use them for anything with a audio output. They have a great bass and treble that automatically tune themselves. I highly recommend this product!

this product is great but the price is kinda high but after all its perfect

"Two months later the left one stopped working."


That is my story also! Very disappoined. Thought I could not go wrong with "Bose."

I was really looking forward to those speakers. Still can't believe it.

I often work from home and listen to music for a large part of the day. I was fed up with normal computer speakers sounding thick and drony, so when I updated my iMac I also ordered a pair of these speakers.

I have been using them for a few weeks now and I am really happy with the sound. It is detailed and strong, without being boomy or overpowering. The build quality is excellent for the price. They are quite small and will not fill a large room, but are great for a study, my room is 3m x 4m and they work perfectly.

Highly recommended!