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Jul 05

Bose 3·2·1® GS Series II DVD home entertainment system

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Though the prices in India have decreased but Bose is still the most expensive brand in audio systems in India. ’321 GS Series 2′ costs around Rs.83K. Usually there is some or the other office with the entertainment systems at Bose. Currently it comes with a free ‘Bose around-ear headphone’ and a complimentary wall-stand for speakers. Getting one from US will be very cheap, if you can hide it from custom’s eyes, but the problem with that is that Bose India will not provide service to any system purchased from outside of India if it is not custom cleared.

321 GS comes with two Gemstone® speaker, acousticmass® module, media center and a universal remote control. As always with Bose, the size of speaker and the quality and the depth of sound they produce is incomparable. They produce enough volume for night party at home and the sound quality is awesome, it gives a feel of surround sound, in Bose terms it is virtual surround sound, but it is not comparable with the sound quality of their Lifestyle® system. But then their is a big difference between the price of the two. The lowest model of Lifestyle system is almost 30K more then GS II.

Media Center can play all kind of DVDs, VCDs, and Audio & MP3 CDs. You can configure your GS system with TV, and external DVD player, satellite TV or music console. It is very easy to setu, once you have gone through the setup manual. The Acousticmass module is big in size, but can hide it under your furniture or behind curtains. If you keep it near a wall, it produce 30% better sound effects. Unlike Lifestyle system, Universal remote control that comes with GS/GSX system does not work on radio frequency. The system is also Bose link enabled. What it means is that if tomorrow you buy a Lifestyle system, then your GS system will work with it. You can share music across the two systems.

The higher model of GS II series is GSX. The only difference between the two is that GSX comes with a storage capacity of 200 hours of music. This extra feature comes with an additional cost of 26K.

Jan 06

My new Headphone – BOSE QC-2

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Everyone buys a headphone. Why should I be writing about mine? You shall be wondering… right? But today when I saw people raising eyebrows and asking for a demo I felt a need to ink it down. Over the years I have bought many headphones, none of them lasted for more than a year. The last one I bought was from Altec Lansing… it’s still working though.

I yesterday bought ‘Bose QuiteComfort 2’. I am the source of amusement in office today… people are talking about me, when they pass by me I can see a grin on their faces. But that has not changed my choice to listen to good & quality music.

I am avid lover of music, and my taste of music is vast, and I usually prefer listening music at high volume. My taste for music ranges from fusion, gazals, hindi contemporary, Indian classical, folk, trance to english pop, jazz, rock to name the few. My wife usually does not like my choice of music and over that the high volume I am used to (of course this is not just the only difference we have ). So this gave me enough excuse to spend some money on a headphone.

Now BOSE QC-2 was something that was on my wish list since a long time… almost 3 years. And usually my conscious mind did not allowed to go out and buy it out… but this year… I mean the first day of this year I was listening to Indian classical – raga malhar by Pt. Jasraj, and there again she asked to change the track… I finally thought that enough of this… so next thing I did was went out with her to a BOSE showroom and pick a Headphone…