The Bose GSM Home theatre series III is possibly the best audio system for 400 sq.feet of space money can possibly buy. It is the ultimate musical experience you can have at home or for a dance party in a room of the size as mentioned above. Costs Rs.84000 with stands but is fantastic. Shut your eyes to all other products and buy it. You will never regret it.

I had this system for a little while with very few problems..... the speakers work well... I never used the DVD part. I found that sometimes it turns it self off.. its only done that 3 times since I had it... who knows. But for the small room that I have it sounds great to me. Very easy to set up. it has 3 wires the most. It works VERY well with my 360 and PS3. I have them hooked up VIA optic. The Bose itself only has 1 optical port but a cheap optical selector from amazon solved that problem. it works very well. I like it

Would I buy it again.... yeah I think so.

Great sound, but way too expensive for what you get in the end. Wires are too short for the speakers (which are special, so you cant buy longer ones). You only have 3 inputs to choose from. 3, are you kidding. Ive seen 8 yr. olds with more gadgets to plug into it. Right now i have , cable, Zune, Wii. I switch between the blu-ray, Xbox 360, and ps2, among other things. Remote has to be the worst one I've ever used. The IR signal is so weak you have to point the remote directly at the unit at 12 feet away(you can boost thye signal with a little piece of alum. foil behind the IR led) Research this mod for any remote.Its just not for me. O, i forgot I'm on my 3rd one.(under warranty for both exchanges). The unit locks up and you cant do anything about it,dvd gone(maybe let the internal batt die). Apparently bad disks screw up the reader too(have to reset the unit to get the damn disk out). I lost my first unit this way. All in all I'd say the unit has put a bad taste in my mouth as far as quality goes (but the people at Bose are very good as far as tech, and exchanges go).
hope this helps,Randy

I've own that system for a little more than a year now and it turns out that the signal for the remote control in the media center doesn't work anymore. So I have to get up every time I want to change the source or to lower the volume. Since its not on warranty anymore (it expired 2 months ago) i'm a little bit desapointed considered the price I paid for that thing.

Pros: Does a decent job of storing music on the hard drive - both convenience and quality of compression and storage. The system is also unobtrusive in the room.

Cons: Very limited feature set. Weak laser and limited format capability. Very limited number of inputs - both video and audio. Speaker system is definitely not audiophile quality. Clunky system interface - very time consuming to edit music library.

Summary: I've been an audiophile and musician since the 60's with a wide range of musical tastes (and yes, I still like to crank it up every now and then). After being widowed and remarrying, my new wife "came equipped" with one of these systems (in perfect condition, too). I replaced my main system in the living room with it and we used it for several months. The wife's a keeper, but the Bose had to go. It's widely accepted that this type of Bose speaker system has little or no response in the middle of the bass range - right where the detail happens in a good bass guitar line. Lower frequencies kick back in (and here you'll have to pardon the pun) to cover the kick drum and low frequency sound effects in movies. Listening to almost any kind of music this leaves a gutless, hollow feeling at the bottom end.

The DVD/CD reader has a very weak laser subassembly and has problems with DVDs which play OK on any of our three PCs or my other two DVD players. The formats readable by the unit are also pretty limited.

It is also extremely difficult and time consuming to edit the stored music collection. The Bose remote has to be used for everything and there is no QWERTY keyboard capability. In addition, the GraceNote music database can only be updated via a CD supplied by Bose (of course). If you don?t update regularly, any newly-released CDs will be stored as ?Unknown? or ?Various artists.? In some cases, the songs will even be stored individually (not as one album) so you can end up with hundreds of unclassified, unnamed, individual files.

I do like the way the system looks in the room ? very compact and much more ?stealthy? than my older floor-standing speakers or my new high-end bookshelf speakers on stands and a separate sub. This, however, isn?t enough to overcome the system?s shortcomings in the audio and video departments.

DVD part sucks...we traded our first one back in cause we thought we just got a bad one, well turns out this one is bad too. It skips/gets stuck even on a brand new DVD. Sound is great. Not compatible with the Ipod.

Sound is ok.

Out of order in 6 months.
The remote control will not work with the satellite system or TV that I have.

I have used the 321 system for approximately 6 months, and is is now out of order. It will not turn on unless you unplug it after each use so it can reset. Not what you would expect from a $700.00 purchase.

Customer Service

I was very disappointed to find my new system would not work, but even worse was when I called service to find I have to ship the product back to bose for repair at my expense. They will replace or repair it, but only after I ship it to their door. I wish they would spend a little less on advertising and more on product development and warranty service. I am now sorry I bought a bose, and will not buy a bose product again.

sound quality - ease of installation

I find no weakness - I won the product - if I would have paid a grand - might not be so positive

I like it have a small livingroom 16x14 has good deep bass clear highs average mid sound

Customer Service

no interaction

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Small god for an apaertment. Has good sound at any volumn, no distortion what so ever

too expensive too heavy wiring pain to change bass and treble thru the tv screen.

For the money I expected a lot more. I rated it good for the price. Wished i could hook up a equalizer for a better control of sound. I will not buy another one sorry

Ease of installation, sound is fine.

The only weakness is the DVD player on it blows. It is only a 480P, whatever that means. My TV is a plamsa 1080P, so I guess I only get half the P...I don't know what that means, but it doesn't sound good.

It took me 15 minutes to set this up, I have nothing negative to say about it. I don't know if it's worth a grand, but I got it as a bonus at work. I went and purchased speaker stands and those are kind of sad, but it says on the directions to put the speakers in a certain place for optimal sound so I bought them.

Customer Service

I called once to ask about the 480P stuff...I didn't have to wait on hold at all, they were nice and told me what was what.

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My last system was an RCA, wires all over the place, although I did like hearing sound that was behind me.