We tried to resist, honest, but it's just impossible to turn a blind eye to the similarities here.
Onkyo's CBX-Z10 and CBX-Z20
iPod-friendly CD players do manage to include ten-watts of amplification, video output, a headphone jack, the firm's Acoustic Drive speaker technology, a CD player, and an obligatory iPod dock, but what's not listed in the specs that you still get (for better or worse) is the eerie resemblance to Bose's Wave Radio. Furthermore, the Z10 looks to come dressed in white while the Z20 dons a black motif, and aside from "improved audio quality" from the latter, they each look to be identical. Priced at ¥43,000 ($361) and ¥50,000 ($420), respectively, these two units are even
priced like a
Bose, but at least Onkyo bothers to tell you the frequency range of the drivers within.
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posted Aug 10th 2007 9:32PM
They may look alike, but a Bose will never be an Onkyo, not that they're trying (sound-wise).
And Onkyo will never have Bose's sales, or it's reputation with the general public. Go figure. I for one stopped buying Bose products when my 150 dollar Tri-Ports fell apart after a month. Beyerdynamic headphones kick Bose's face in =P
so nice to read intelligent comments in here, especially regarding sound. I do my best to spread the gospel about Onkyo, but every 13 year old boy in the world seems to think nothing could be better than bose. must be the informercials.
No highs, no lows, must be a Bose.
Blech. Makes Monster Cable look like balanced price purchases.
I'll take that over paper-cone Bose crap anyday.
http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html
My Sennheiser HD-595s murder my friend's QC2s. Oh, and we used to own a Bose 5.1 system, so I'm fully qualified to bash them.
Exactly, Bose BLOWS... particularly for the price.... Paradigm and Sennheiser and Creek are great examples of companies with similarly priced equipment that destroys bose...
The graphs/info in this article is flawed.-people need to know this.
If it picks out one class of speakers from the company, show me one that bashes the bookshelf speakers. and dont forget the Lifestyle models, outdoor speakers and their lines of professional audio
We also used to own a pair of Bose bookshelves, which have since been given to grandma as surrounds. They weren't good enough even for her to use as the front two channels.
Bonkyo?
they are both junk
I thought Bose owned the market on ugly, plastic crap. I fail.