Interesting use of a > Bose woofer box

[billschu]

A friend/acquaintance of mine really wanted to use his Bose setup in his living room. It's the mini cubes and that boomy sub which goes up to 300Hz, etc. Invisibility was paramount for this person and who was I to push my own views on him? He has a nice system elsewhere so I helped him with the install.

What was interesting about it? I mounted the Bose sub in between the floor joists and fired the ports up through what looks like a heating register vent. He apparently had no issue with cutting a hole in his nice hardwood floor but was determined not to do in-wall speakers. Odd but fine. I can work with that. It turned out rather nicely for background music for reading, conversation, etc. It doesn't seem any boomier than just keeping it on the floor and we were able to place it in between the speakers to help with the upper bass directivity.

Not a bad use for a > Bose woofer box. I just can't bring myself to say subwoofer because it really isn't.

Bill

[natediggidy]

> Not a bad use for a > Bose woofer box. I
> just can't bring myself to say subwoofer
> because it really isn't.

> It doesn't seem any boomier than just
> keeping it on the floor...

> Bill

Maybe it's getting a little low-end boost by mounting it this way?

[billfitzmaurice]

They make good lobster traps.

[billschu]

Funny. That's right. They have the nebulous "bass module" tag. Good marketing.

I'd go back and measure and probably will again but I never took a "before" mesurement so it may be meaningless.

Bill

[jtaylor]

> They make good lobster traps.

It's againts the law to eat them small baby lobsters. Now a small Octopus may be able to crawl inside amd make a nice home. Except I don't think you can get your hand inside to pull an Octopus out. Also beware, Octopus have a very nasty bite.

J. Taylor

[johnastockman]

> They make good lobster traps.

Good one! Also for martial arts practice, for breaking things in half with your head or hands! Too easy...

John A.

[bill]

Bose used to make a contractor version of their 2.1 system where the bass module was designed to hang between the joists and feed the room through a dummy heat register. Only contractors could buy it; it was never offered through retail channels. For all I know, they may still sell it to the CEDIA crowd.

Regards,
Bill

> A friend/acquaintance of mine really wanted
> to use his Bose setup in his living room.
> It's the mini cubes and that boomy sub which
> goes up to 300Hz, etc. Invisibility was
> paramount for this person and who was I to
> push my own views on him? He has a nice
> system elsewhere so I helped him with the
> install.

> What was interesting about it? I mounted the
> Bose sub in between the floor joists and
> fired the ports up through what looks like a
> heating register vent. He apparently had no
> issue with cutting a hole in his nice
> hardwood floor but was determined not to do
> in-wall speakers. Odd but fine. I can work
> with that. It turned out rather nicely for
> background music for reading, conversation,
> etc. It doesn't seem any boomier than just
> keeping it on the floor and we were able to
> place it in between the speakers to help
> with the upper bass directivity.

> Not a bad use for a > Bose woofer box. I
> just can't bring myself to say subwoofer
> because it really isn't.

> Bill

[Wolf]

> Funny. That's right. They have the
> nebulous "bass module" tag. Good
> marketing.

> I'd go back and measure and probably will
> again but I never took a "before"
> mesurement so it may be meaningless.

> Bill

How would a pair of TB W5-1138SA woofers do in that box? I think it'd be a worthwhile experiment! You'd have to run 8 ohms, and maybe swap amps, but worthwhile!
Later,
Wolf