Bose Companion 2 Computer Speakers

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The other night, my very nice/expensive Altec Lansing speakers died. I had them for years, so exceeded their life expectancy, I guess. After a couple days of browsing the Internet, I purchased the Bose Companion 2 speakers. This is the first set of computer speakers I've had in over a decade that didn't have a sub-woofer.

I was skeptical because of the price tag ($99), the size, and the lack of a sub-woofer, but holy crap! These things are awesome. They have great sound, very loud, and the bass is equal or similar to what I had with the Altec speakers I just replaced. My only two complaints I have is there's no ability to adjust the bass out, so I have to do that with the pulseaudio-equalizer package and there's no on/off switch. I mean, how hard would it be to add an on/off switch and LED without driving up the cost?

Like I've always told people, it's not the size that matters.

http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/sho ... /index.jsp

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[ad4mg]

The other night, my very nice/expensive Altec Lansing speakers died. I had them for years, so exceeded their life expectancy, I guess. After a couple days of browsing the Internet, I purchased the Bose Companion 2 speakers. This is the first set of computer speakers I've had in over a decade that didn't have a sub-woofer.

I was skeptical because of the price tag ($99), the size, and the lack of a sub-woofer, but holy crap! These things are awesome. They have great sound, very loud, and the bass is equal or similar to what I had with the Altec speakers I just replaced. My only two complaints I have is there's no ability to adjust the bass out, so I have to do that with the pulseaudio-equalizer package and there's no on/off switch. I mean, how hard would it be to add an on/off switch and LED without driving up the cost?

Like I've always told people, it's not the size that matters.

http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/sho ... /index.jsp

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That pulseaudio 15 band equalizer script with the GUI is freakin' awesome! I installed it on all my Ubuntu boxes last week.

Strange no on/off switch was provided with the speakers. Shouldn't be a problem for a ham/techno geek ... just add one! :D