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How can I find out the specs on a bose system?

I have an acoustimass 25 speaker system, and a lifestyle 5 receiver. The bose website is no help. They don't even acknowledge that model, can you believe that? Any help would be appreciated, specifications, watts, frequency range, etc. Thanks in advance.

It isn't surprising that Bose would not acknowledge their products. They don't publish specifications for their products, but there are folks out there who have measured them...

If I remember correctly, the bass module has a response from 100Hz up to 200Hz with a very high peak, and the satellites start at 280Hz and go up to 13kHz, and have some interesting "coloration" on the edges of that response range. This holey/wavy frequency repsonse is one of the many reasons that Bose doesn't publish their specs. They are big on psychoacoustics - this is the reason for the peaks in the response curve... it allows them to "fool" people into thinking that they are getting hi-fidelity full range sound from an anemic mismatched sat/sub system.

I found a link to some more info that may help: http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html

Wattage is easy... get yourself a kill-a-watt, crank up the volume, and measure the steady march of electrons.

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