New Bose PA..?

[GZsound]

My local bluegrass community is all excited about the new Bose Pa system. $2,000 per musician but no monitors required, sound is the same for the musicians as it is for the audience and it looks like pretty interesting technology.

Anybody seen the system in use yet?

[hollywood_steve]

I literally bumped into one of them skinny columns at the Hollywood G.C. while waiting for a friend to grab some picks. (their ONE positive attribute, where else can you buy picks, strings, or a $5,000 microphone on a Sunday afternoon?) I may be getting old, but they're gonna have to do some serious convincing me with this one.......... As a bass player, I just don't see them little 2" speakers offering much of a WHUMP when I hit my open E string. Especially for those of us who believe in a really rolled off, woofy tone with mostly fundamental and very little else. How many dozen of those little suckers will it take to equal one big EV 15" that moves a good inch or two back and forth on the low notes? The early money is betting that they are setting themselves up for a whole new generation to learn the old "No highs, no lows, must be Bose" ditty.

[littledog]

Umm, Hollywood, next time plug in the subwoofer that's included. You can stack as many subwoofers as you want to carry or can afford - if 5-6 string electric bass players have no trouble with the low end, I don't think your E string will pose that much of a problem.

There is another thread on the Bose already running that discusses the pros and cons extensively. Do a search.

While I too have some concerns about the system (see other thread), a Bluegrass group might actually be the perfect application. You might not even need one unit per musician. Might be able to do it with as few as two or three of them.

[littledog]

Actually make that two threads:

"Anyone else doing Bose this week?" in the Remote Possibilities forum


and:

"Bose personal music system?" in the Moan Zone