My Sister’s First Stereo - Redesigning a Bose AV321
As brothers and sisters typically do, my little sister shares quite a few similarities and interests as I do. Being someone who loves to share the love of music and what high end audio has to offer, I would be a bad brother to not at least introduce her to the experience of better sound. It was September, and I had recently been given a Bose AV321 stereo system without the center control box. Like most audiophiles, I tend to shy from Bose since products from this era were mostly marketing instead of providing good respectable full range sound. This system was no exception with the bass cabinet cutting off above what decent bookshelf speakers can accomplish (46Hz), and having an entire band of musical information missing in the mid-bass section (203-279Hz) as measured here . That being said, there were still some positives to the the design and could be a great jumping off point for a first stereo. The satellites were heavy and well damped, with some foam feet added there wa...