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Engadget comment system...FTWBBQLAWNDARTS]]>Aug 21st 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
Can anyone recommend other good iPod docks?]]>Aug 21st 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
In all seriousness, put your money into a receiver & speakers. All it needs to be is stereo. Then get one of those ]]>Aug 21st 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
'less than' $5 cords from Radio Shack's non-Monster, non-Gold series that takes a stereo plug and outputs RCA (the red & white jacks, standard for analog audio).

Plug the thing in, enjoy sound that spanks ANY of these docks. If you can access the line-out from an existing dock, that's better than the stereo jack.

That setup you can use for CDs, LPs, cassettes, satellite radios, tuners, and anything else that has a line-out. You can upgrade it, too, getting better sound all the way. Any iPod dock locks you into not a non-upgradeable, non-extensible, proprietary system, dependent on the physical hardware of the current iPod lines. Apple could change it without notice and then you're SOL. Buy a real system instead.]]>Aug 21st 2008 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
"Say what you will about Bose's price to performance ratio"

well people still buy Monster Cable at WorstBuy, eh?]]>Aug 21st 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
Okay. It sucks.

With the *possible* exception of their headphones, Bose stuff sounds average at best, and is by no means worth half of its price. They prey upon the uninformed with too much money.]]>Aug 21st 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
I will never give Bose a cent, and I encourage you not to either. ]]>Aug 21st 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
Their QC headphones actually sound pretty good but are overpriced by a rediculous amount like everything else. (Their other stuff just sounds mediocre and is also outrageously overpriced.) With that said I have a pair of Sennheiser PXC300's that you would have to pry out of my cold, dead, hands before I'd even think of touching a pair of QC3's.]]>Aug 21st 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
But for music? No way. That's what the Yamaha B-2 and the Bozak 305's are for...]]>Aug 21st 2008 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
And now I can stream any Internet stream through it with my iPhone, I've gotten my $$$ worth, though this "new" model is $50 more than the original, so unless you have a 3G iPhone, you may want to go find the original.
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Need I go on?]]>Aug 21st 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
Here's an interesting opinion of Bose and their marketing prowess, plus links to the OEMs:

http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html

]]>Aug 21st 2008 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
I love my Paradigm Studio series speakers. My next upgrade though may be B&W Nautilus 800 series, but the Paradigm Signature series is always in the running.]]>Aug 21st 2008 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Oh well, hopefully loud speakers will compensate for being completely vacuous...

"They prey upon the uninformed with too much money."]]>Aug 21st 2008 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
You are a troll, and if my guess is right, you're actually a Bose-h8r stirring the anti-Bose folks up in a frenzy by throwing out a nice juicy stereotype for attack.

FAIL]]>Dec 16th 2008 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 25th 2008 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
So, I am technically a 28 year old junior... that is if I was going to college, what does it matter?

College isn't for everyone, or people don't always start right after High School.]]>Aug 21st 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
It may not be audiophile quality sound, but what portable iPod docking system out there is? You guys need to stop trying to compare this thing to component reference systems and judge it by what it is inteneded for and how well it does do it.]]>Aug 21st 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 23rd 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/@Paul Manesh, the ladies hear you coming from a mile away, pretentious idiot alarm hahahah what do they do? RUN AWAY. ]]>Aug 21st 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
As for SATA, didn't SATA 3 just get certified too? Nobody is standing still.

And is USB 3 free of the problems that made USB 2 so much slower than its rated speed that Firewire 400 continually proved the faster way to go in spite of being rated at 400 while USB 2 was 480? The problems I'm referring to is the fact that you had to have a port for each peripheral, and that the processor has to be involved with moving data, whereas in Firewire the processor was left alone. Streaming is clearly better than packet-based data transfer for anything other than a bunch of tiny files.]]>Aug 21st 2008 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Aug 21st 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
I wonder what the experts at "Stereophile" magazine thought:

"We don't wish to give the impression, though, that the 901 is a dull-sounding system...
If we were to judge the 901 in terms of the best sound available, then, we would say that it produces a more realistic semblance of natural ambience than any other speaker system, but we would characterize it as unexceptional in all other respects."

http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/425/index.html (granted, the review is of the original series I's in 1975, but I wonder why they haven't reviewed them since?) ]]>Aug 21st 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/
From your link:

"Perhaps the most important single factor in the 901's sales is its awesomely spacious sound, which makes other systems in a showroom sound a bit trivial, as if the Bose is the Truth and the Light, and the others are just playing around. The 901 sounds fantastically open and spacious, with a big, fat low end and a socko you-are-there presence that seems to put the performers right in the room, surrounded by the original auditorium."]]>Aug 21st 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/bose-sounddock-series-ii-heading-to-a-den-near-you-this-septembe/Other
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There's a reason Bose advertise in fashion magazines, and are a joke among audiophiles (despite pricing their mediocre junk at premium audiophile prices).]]>Aug 22nd 2008 1:01AM