Reviews for Bose® Companion® 5 Multimedia Speaker System

I don't claim to be an audiophile but I acquired these with my new iMac last week and they are superb. By themselves they are absolutely great, projecting wonderful tone and excellent volume for what little space they take up. I've tried them with the demo version of the iWow surround sound plugin and "wow" is right. Great speakers by themselves, even better with iWow.

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I was amazed at the sound when a sales person at Bose demonstrated these for me. These speakers sound just as good if not better than their systems at $1,000+ It's good to have two speakers that deliver the sound close to their 5 speaker companions. Highly recommended.

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When I first set this system up on my new MacPro, I was blown away; clear, clean strong, truly remarkable, especially for watching movies. Now, a week later, I've discovered a deficiency that really disappoints me. Bose instructions suggest that you should turn off your equalizer and let the music sound the way the musicians intended it. If you follow that advice, you're going to run into a lot of recordings that sound like the vocal track is being projected from a distant coal mine. You can compensate fairly well with the iTunes equalizer but the fact is that my old $120 sound system did a better job with at last 10% of what I play. Notable victims include David Bowie (try Modern Love), John Mellencamp, and Journey, but you'll notice the effect to some degree with an unfortunately broad spectrum of artists. Overall, the sound quality is still so good that I rate the product at 4 stars, but you would be well advised to test the system with a representative selection of your favorite music before you sink $400 into it.

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Best sounding computer speakers I have ever heard!!

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