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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2023 12:00:19 GMT -6
Steve, my first experience with Bose sound was very similar to yours. We had an "outside" band come to a church I was involved in many years ago. I was early and saw the guy setting up. Those tall mic stands with little tiny boxes on top. I had no idea what they might be for. When he told me they were the main speakers I was blown away. But when I heard them I was really blow away. I like them stick PAs a lot. I was going to get two of them in a trade once, but the guy backed out. So I never did get one. I heard one at an indoor event I had gone to. I was impressed with it. A friend of mine wound up with the Yamaha version of it. It, too, was impressive. Not as good as the Bose, but close, so much so that I tried to buy the one my friend had. LOL! 
Since then, I have heard them in band settings. They worked out great! I wish this had been out when my bands and I were doing gigs in small places. Sure would have been a space saver!
I had one of them Fender PAs that come together in a case. But I didn't like it all. I sold it in a few month time. But the Bose stick (that is what I call it) If I were doing gigs again I would get one of these. Great sound in a little stick! LOL! 
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Oct 31, 2023 13:23:22 GMT -6
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Post by antares on Nov 1, 2023 3:36:27 GMT -6
I very nearly bought the Yamaha PAS300 too, but I had to let head rule heart and admit that it would have been sinking cash into something destined to gather dust. Similarly, I had harboured a jonesing for a cocktail drum kit to stand in the corner of the room where all the guitars, amps and radio equipment resides, but of course that is exactly what it would have done too.
If there's one thing I can't get my head around with Bose, it's that they have always obfuscated the technical details for their product lines. Try to find statements about any power output, let alone RMS power. That's one of the areas in which Fender excel- technical details, and Yamaha are great too but who is surprised by that?
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Nov 2, 2023 7:15:11 GMT -6
If there's one thing I can't get my head around with Bose, it's that they have always obfuscated the technical details for their product lines. Try to find statements about any power output, let alone RMS power. That's one of the areas in which Fender excel- technical details, and Yamaha are great too but who is surprised by that? Good point on the specs. A friend in the PA manufacturing business told me that the specs could be confusing to consumers. For example, he cited the old Peavey CS-800 PA amp that everybody in this part of the US used to own at least one. He said those Peaveys probably didn't have 400 clean watts per side but they were bullet-proof and cheap. He said a lower rated amp from some of the higher-end companies would likely have a higher output with lower distortion while sporting apparently less-impressive specs on the sales literature. He said that there was a pretty wide latitude on how you could express the output of the amp, and trying to compare two amps from different manufacturers could literally become an apples and oranges discussion. This is why Bill Lawrence never posted resistance and other specs for his pickups. He told me that resistance was confusing because he thought that the numbers could be easily manipulated by the builder. Based on a lot of the pickups I've been repairing lately, there are a lot of winders that don't know much about their craft! John |
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