Testing Car stock subwoofer Bose. Each speaker is 2 Ohm. Its amplifier gives 70w per channel on 1 Ohm load. Music used: T-Mass - Up In Flumes Follow me on Instagram: / _audio_therapy_
I love these Bose drivers because they have such a thick large roll foam surround. These get very low for their size and they kick pretty good too. they also move a crap ton of air for their size. Amazing excursion on these bad boys.
I have the 98 Nissan Maxima with the Bose sound in it... For not having an aftermarket sub (coming soon), these guys can make some great sound. The sub will take the strain of the bass off the Bose but because they're Bose they mids and treble will sound amazing. Hopefully you have fun with these! Edit: The ones that came with my car are much bigger than these hence the praise I'm giving them. 2 7" in the back and 5x7 in the doors.
You can say what you want about bose, but their speakers are good sounding speakers. I mean I know that they are overpriced, but the thing that defines bose in my eyes is the small form factor. Bose just mastered how to build really nice speakers, that are small in a small box. And we all know that the same thing, just smaller, costs more. I'm not a fan of bose speakers either, because for the price I definetly can get something better, but you have no space, bose is a good way to go. I mean look at the Bose Soundlink Mini. The sound they made out of two mini drivers is just impressing. And you will never see a company that uses such "cheap" materials, as you claim it, that can produce such a good sound as bose. Bose just needs to start making "real" speakers instead of pumping so much money into designing small speakers that can fit into small boxes.
Bose have some smart cookies working for them, no doubt about it, but they aren't known for the quality over their hardware nor their price to performance, but they are known for using clever science to squeeze perceived performance out where raw performance doesn't actually exist. They are the masters of polishing turds with psychoacoustics. Audiophiles reject the very notion that sound perception is psychological, and Bose actually goes out of their way to point it out, and quite frankly, they seem to actually know what they are doing. Bose go out of their way to engineer ways to make crappy sound from cheap speakers interact in a way that tricks people's ears into perceiving things the speakers aren't capable of doing. However, manipulation of the sound like this leads to music not actually sounding like it was intended, and that can seem like a perversion of the sound by some audiophiles, since bose could have simply used adequate hardware for the job instead of manipulating the sound. Especially since it can trick the untrained ear into thinking it was doing _good_ things, since they have no reference for what good *actually* sounds like. I have no issue with bose and what they do, but I do wish more people actually understood what bose was. They are sound illusionists. Long story short, do NOT talk positively about Bose around an audiophile. It is like talking positively about ricers around a muscle car lover.
Any speaker is only as good as its enclosure. Any and all speakers do one function, move air. You can move all the air you want, but if it isn't correct flow, then IDC if you're rock Lvl 6 DC's or even better. The sound will always and forever be shitty. Walmart speakers can out DB and SQ "pro" setups. Now with that, I do understand the rest of the knowledge to go into this conversation. Dima said it best, they know how to make shit good, and small. NOT the best.
Thanks for the song! Up In Flumes - T-Mass, and by the way, Bose spends a lot in development every year just to make speakers "OK", remember that geometry plays all the time.
weasel toast it's still not a mid range speaker. I don't know where people are getting that idea from. Could be because the amp he is using might be giving a mid range effect.
Pairing this unit or the similar ones with a 300 watt max (150rms) amplifier is more than plenty for them, mainly for a small vehicle or truck where space is heavily limited they sound pretty good, single cab trucks work perfectly for this, where space inside the cab is scarce
I'm impressed. even though the microphone can't capture all the bass. you get an idea on how the speakers sound. it would be nice to see how well the built in amp sounds like. Bose has thier speakers tuned, and the unique design has the bass going through the tuned ports. I had a Bose table top radio. it had impressive sound. I'm disappointed that I no longer have it :-(
Bose uses low impedance drivers to pull more current through the amplifier when connected to an automotive 12V supply. Other amplifiers require a boost converter to generate the high voltages needed, but that adds cost to the amplifier. I bought an old Buick Encore spare tire sub that had just one driver in it, and the impedance of the driver was 1 ohm. The two woofers in this subwoofer operating in parallel also provide a 1-ohm load. But if you wire them in series like you did, you get a 4-ohm load, and you can drive them with a home audio amplifier without being worried about toasting the amplifier.
@@Mike-qo4kp No Acoustic Theory was right...wiring speakers in series increases the impedance (i.e. add the impedance together to get the total impedance), in parallel reduces it (i.e. two speakers of the same impedance will see half the impedance)
Geez, these would be perfect for a complimentary dual phase triple compression folded 1/4 wave asymmetrical labyrinth! I just wish I knew what that was...
the only credible part is "'Compression, folded 1/4th wave, asymmetrical labyrinth"; roughly equivalent to what we call a an end loaded tapered horn; a modified transmission line.
I wonder what these would have sounded like with a simple baffle board. Also, the only thing to be wary of with Bose speakers is the amplifier and/or processor unit often applies a EQ curve designed to match the driver.
Very similar drivers can be purchased at Parts Express. There are a plethora of small subwoofers, down to 3" in diameter, that use this same design style to move lots of air from a small driver in a small space.
RenkoV2 you’re comparing mainly Sub brands to home audio , car audio head phone brand .. and fyi sundown is over rated , I had a single sa 15 , and then moved to 2 x12 sundowns , which yeah hit lows good and a good quality speaker but for 1200$ JUST for the subs itself isn’t worth it , I moved to a Single Skar ZVX 15 , and now that’s the BEST brand for the money out there
@@hunterbasselite6826 you do realize that bose has a car audio line too, and yeah skar is really good sundown is pretty good, and worth the price compared to the price of a bose system
its possible for a little woffer like that to handle that much and put out that much bass. due to look at the ohms on the speaker. the lower the ohms the better its handling and output of freqs. if you get an 8" 8 ohms, 4 ohms, 2 ohms and even a 1ohms spkr, you will hear the difference. so with BOSE they did a great deal in getting these small woofers to 2 ohms to push more bass. GREAT JOB BOSE
I need to make a 3000 RPM face palm machine, so I can rapidly facepalm while reading these comments. The build goal was this: design a sub enclosure that is light weight, easily removable, durable, and fits inside an upside-down spare tire. Bose did this, and they did it well.
Eh, I test drove a 2016 Mazda 6 a few years ago, it had a Bose stereo, relatively powerful bass for a stock stereo, but also sounded oddly muffled for some reason. That being said, I'm used to aftermarket stereo systems, so I'm probably a bit biased.
@@hakont.4960 "oddly muffled" is exactly how subs that rely on fancy physics sound. They utilize these tubes, horns, and channels and the shockwave gets distorted before it even exits the speaker. Nothing beats a simple sealed enclosure facing the listener, a proper, efficient driver, EQ...and an anechoic chamber. Because no driver is flat in a sealed box.
@@JustinCrediblename The entire frequency range was muffled really, really meh stereo overall. I do agree that you can't beat a proper subwoofer in a properly built and tuned enclosure. I currently have a Hertz ES 300.5 12" DVC subwoofer in a 40 liter sealed enclosure powered by an 1100 watt Hertz mono amp in my car and it makes that Bose subwoofer sound like a toy speaker. It's not overly loud since it's in a closed box, but the bass is nice and "weighty" with good punch.
They came to a compromise with that design - fits in a small space. Using drivers with any more excursion would just make things worse as there is too much air movement to fit in that space/port.
Oh so wrong.....it's about the box design, the speaker, the head unit, the amplifier and everything between. Slapping some crappy speakers in a great box will not provide premium sound. It will provide deep farting sounds.
John Willis 90% correct! a crappy MTX sub in a well built to specs premium enclosure will make it sound VERY good. Of course with a good head and amp and power supply!
It's just a transmission line box, I would like to see the line and know the dimensions. I build alot of these for people, hard part is tuning for internal volume\ resonant Freq
Do you build them for people's stereo systems at their house or have you tried to incorporate a t-line box into a car cuz I know they end up being very big just curious as I wanted to build one for a while for a vehicle and I know that they can be very difficult regardless of where they are to get tuned right there isn't a whole ton of information out there on good quality builds for a car
the Spare tire subwoofer Pod seems common in Bose Car audio systems.....both 2006 & 2011 Infiniti FX 35's my grandad owned had them...the bass wasn't terribly deep but they did have pretty good output for their size and considering they were under the cargo floor.
Thise speakers were not a bad design, well made, long throw spider, braided VC wires, extended pole through the magnet gap, decent surround. These were not cheap speakers, the basket made it look cheap, but the parts used were pretty good
Soong Wen How do you ignore the price when you dont have alot of money? I have a 500 dollar bose and when i look inside the sub it shocked me. I smell a strong scent of wood (wood is normal for subs but the smell is insane) and for the thing that brought the sound out of the box it looked like they used just a thicker toilet paper roll cardboard thing
Haha Yea Lol I Wanna See How long The Things Can Last (probably a long time unless he shoots a huge amount of voltage thru it) Btw I Have Two Of Thos Things And They Make My House Shake Believe it or not XD
bose mids and high sound really good. ide keep the stock door speakers and Get different subs. thank you for showing what the bose subs look like. for a stock system tho bose isn't that bad.
If you pair them with a tweeter and a 2.5KHz crossover. It would sound awesome. Bose could make a home speaker 700 to compete with Klipsch fives with these woofers front firing plus an omnidirectional tweeter and their famous waveguide technology.
@@davidperry4013 I happen to have one of these woofers, and any vocals sound horrible (crossed over at about 2-3k with a small full range as a tweeter, not entirely sure of the exact xover point as I was using a 2 way car crossover). The woofer did measure flat to about 2k, but anything besides bass sounded almost like it was playing through a plastic cup
Bose came in my 14 Impala.... and compared to regular stock car audio... the Bose is miles better BUT it still is no king. I can not wait to get my old Memphis M5 12 back in and look at redoing the rest of the audio. I can... at least tolerate for now unlike most stock car audio..... *cough* "Pioneer in a 11 Equinox" *Cough* is crap *Cough*
you guys are truly uneducated. this set up is a spare mount sub enclosure. guess what . not intended for mids or highs. bass only. id your gonna fault something then make sure you failt it for what it was designed for
Let's be fair here. First of all, THESE drivers where designed to be used in the load chamber enclosure. Playing them out of this enclosure is unfair. SECOND of all, I doubt he was using the factory amp to push them, there for probably not filtered output. THIRD of all it is never a good idea to play any speaker with out it being mounted on a baffle or box. Playing a speaker with it being mounted, or enclosed is stupid. And let's not forget the quality of the cheap microphone being used to record it.
Not a Bose home audio advocate, by any means, but the best “factory” car stereo system I ever owned was Bose. As much as I hate to admit it, I miss that system. Yes, I’m a bit embarrassed to post this. 😇
those are neat. I wonder why Bose does not put the wattage information on the speaker magnets? what's the power handling of those little woofers? I would like to see what the bass chamber looks like torn apart. I know it's plastic... Bose uses a tuned wave guide system. It would be nice to see how the sound travels in the bass chamber. I'd probably look up a pinout for the mini amp and try to wire it up. The amp is probably tuned in a specific manner to run the woofers better. I'd try to get a zoom recorder or something to capture the low end better. Good footage though. It's triggered my curiosity.
You should try to use the Bose amp. All is needs is 12 volts and a signal going to it. Subwoofers are not meant to play highs so try to filter out the highs or try to use the Bose amp if you really want to see how much bass these have because they do have very good bass but they are subwoofers not full range drivers so filtering out the mids and highs would be good. I would suggest putting an 80HZ low pass filter on these to really make them slap. The excursion on these woofers is insane for their size
exactly the problem with bose..... wheres the highs coming from??? nobody knows... somewhere between the undersized paper driver cone, and the dust cap.....
+EpicEverythingDude75 no shit stupid fuck... i was being sarcastic... yea.. my point exaclty.. put 50 filters on 25 speakers... so fucking genius.. totally how you get could flat spound reproduction.. go ahead by bose.. its there for stupid fucking idiots like you.. that means there will be more quality equipment to go around... so go fuck your self and your plastic piece of shit bose systems..
+b. c. have fun replacing your rotting as foam surrounds... and further more, bose was more about home audio than anything... there poor quality componants is extreme in there surround sound units most of all... they are fucking junk... same quality as a walmart sony, with a genius port calculation to make it sound a tad better, then charge you 10 times it worth... how many fucking videos have you seen of an audio file showing off his 300,000 dollar bose system????
My wife's mom has the Murano this is in, what a horrible sound system I can confirm.. I didn't even realize it had a sub till I installed a towing kit on it and found it while running the wiring.
Not really I have one and can take crazy power If it was low quality then why is it that they got high quality (more like competition grade ) voice coils? I tried blowing these subs and it's impossible Definitely buying 20 of these to prove to people bose is better then they think
If I were an engineer at Bose, I would develop a 4.5 inch ND Richsound(R) full range driver from the motor structure of the Richbass woofer. It would be a balanced mode radiator but, with a lot more boom than the techonic 3.5 inch BMR and also have as good if not better-sounding mids and highs than Techonic BMRs. Then develop a Bose Homespeaker 700 around those drivers to compete against the Klipsch 5s and have more features such as illuminated capacitive touch buttons and omnidirectional microphones and a TI LM3886 68 watt class AB amplifier in each speaker cabinet.
Most of their stuff with the tiny speakers they try to coax big bass out of is a joke, but their older 301s, 501s etc are decent. I've got a pair of 301s from 1996, have 8" woofers and they sound great. My pops has 501s from the late 70s that have 10" woofers and they rock hella loud.
+djhaloeight and i have a sundown audio 8" on 1k as the sub for the home audio I'm a major bass head Bose just don't give the power for me or the quality I need js
+FSXgta bose enthusiast? Why would you need to be an enthusiast to know if a product is well built or not? Once again... Default car subwoofer. Its suppost to be cheap and functionable. Those subwoofers dont have near enough output to require anything more than a plastic enclosure..
