The Bose Test
Posted on | November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
On a mastering web board I belong to, I read an engineer bemoan a client’s “Bose test”, where they judged everything on their Bose Wave system. His complaint was that it had exaggerated low-end and was not an accurate judge. Here’s my response to him…
“I’ve learned that everyone has their “truth”…and they’re all flawed. I’ve had a lot of clients lately that swear “their car stereo” is the truth. That’s probably the most common (car stereos in general), but there are many Boses out there, so ubiquity counts for something.
I used to own a Bose Wave and used it to double-check low frequency clarity, before I got my room really dialed in.
Now I have a pair of Lipinski L-707s with L-301 amps, a well-integrated sub, a Benchmark DAC-1 for monitor control/ preamp, in a George Augspurger set-up room. That’s my truth, but I still have to realize even that is imperfect…just A LOT LESS than 99% of the stuff out there.
I think that accepting other people’s imperfect truth/ perspective is something you have to live with and accommodate.”
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