Can You Hear Me NOW?
I have malformed inner ears so my entire life has been filled with "Huh?" or "Pardon?" or the most annoying to anyone beside me, "What did they say?" I can hear very clearly most sounds but the quieter sounds or, as the Bose ad states: the whispered dialogue and subtle sound effects are just lost on me. When I'm alone, I can jack up the TV's volume to 'Earth Tremor" setting, but when I'm with my family, I must play well with others, so the volume is set to their normal ears and I miss 1/3rd of what's going on.
That's why I was hoping that this unit would really help me hear the entire movie/program and not continually hit Rewind on the remote to catch missed dialogue. And it works very well on our Samsung 40-Inch 1080p 60Hz LED HDTV. I never found the sound on our new TV to rival our old giant SONY's speakers so using this Bose sound system really amplifies and *crisps up* the sounds so I can hear them all. It was super simple for my husband and son to fiddle around with...
Sounds good to me
Let's face it: If you're like me and you've bought a fancy, large, feature filled, high definition, flat screen, smart, 3D (or some combination thereof) TV in the last couple of years (and who hasn't?), you probably made your decision based on the screen size, picture quality, and your budget, with very little consideration going to the tinny, tiny speakers generating the bare minimum of sound to go with the picture. At the very least, I'm willing to bet that few buyers found a TV with a picture they liked only to go, "Yeah, I love that TV, but the sound is horrible. Let's get something else." Then again, if you're buying a big, fancy TV, you've probably got a home theater system or something similar to go with it. So where does this Bose system fit in?
For me, it fits right in the middle. When I'm watching a movie, I like to crank my Yamaha receiver and Bose Acoustimass 6 Home Entertainment Speaker System...
Decent TV Sound System, but Missing HDMI and Other Expected Features
I love hearing good audio from my television and usually wind up dedicating a receiver or amplifier to supplement the subpar internal sound systems found in most TVs. Therefore, the Bose 15/10 TV Sound System intrigued me as an all-in-one unit that could provide improved television audio.
Removing the Bose 15/10 from the shipping box, one quickly realizes that this is a large unit. Don't think "small" because the unit is over two feet wide, over a foot deep and over 1/2" high. It weighs in 12 pounds. In other words, it's manageable but big and hefty.
Included with the system is a remote control (more on this shortly,) the batteries for the remote, the documentation (nicely printed, easy to read and understand,) a power cord, and a series of connecting cables.
The unit supports both analog (RCA) and digital (Toslink and coaxial) audio connections. Why Bose decided to omit HDMI is a mystery. Clearly this is a major omission on Bose's part as virtually...
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