Gordon Gekko wrote:Bose is good in speaker technology, they are not anything to write home about on home theatres.
Are you looking for good quality sound (being able to hear the singer inhale) or do you just want the matatu boom boom sound?
For the latter, a 1500 PMPO will suffice, brand name is immaterial. Get a 5 speaker system and ensure they are placed well in the room, use the calibrator which comes with it.
For serious quality, build a system component by component. Bose speakers, Sansui amp, Yahama CD player etc. Painstaking, expensive but worth it if you are a music connoiseur(sp).
PMPO is a completely meaningless quantity with no basis whatsoever in engineering. The PMPO figures quoted on equipment are generated in marketing brainstorming sessions! Not in the engineering design labs.... Something like...
Marketing Officer: "the engineers said this thing can produce 30W. That figure sounds too small. Why don't we write 300W?"
Marketing Manager: "No! 300W looks funny. We should put something more wholesome, say 500W"
Marketing Director: "But that will be lower than what our competitors have and we must be recognised as the leaders in this segment, so I say we put at least 1,000W, or 1,500W"
Artwork Designer (a few weeks later): "The figure 1,500W doesn't fit well on the front panel. The number '5' is too broad for that space. I suggest we either use 1,000W or 2,000W"
Marketing director: "No; we can't reduce the number. Use 2,000W. After all I don't like odd numbers"
And that is how the equipment get's a label screaming "
2,000W PMPO"
Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.