I got a Bose 701 and I like it very much. It soounds great...looks great and added a lot of aesthetics to my home theater/music room.

I'm overwhelmed with my 701 s. I have always owned Bose. The unit, receiver, you name. At the present, my 701s is juiced up by a Poineer sx 980 and I have them backed up by two cerwin v 400. No matter how loud or low I put the volume, the 701s give me the pure pleasing sound I now expect from them. Unless you have the true power that's needed to really hear how they (701s), you will never truly understand what the bad boys are really made of. I will continual listing to them until my place in heaven is needed. Until than, I'll give them five stars.

This review is for Bose 701s series I with a front and rear subwoofer port. I have auditioned a pair with the front port only and the two port configuration is substantially better. The thing to remember about this product is that you must provide an adequate listening space. The speaker cabinet is a hybrid open baffle design for the tweeter and mid range which is intriguing to me. If it carried a name other than Bose, the audio community would be very interested. The sound of the speakers is very non fatiguing. I can listen for hours at moderate levels while working on paper work without annoyance or the need to readjust placement. They do not get congested in complex orchestral passages as some other speakers I have used extensively (Newform research 645's, Magnepan MG Is Improved).The treble is not as beamy as in the Bose 10.2 series 2, (considered by most to be Bose' best floor-standers) and the mid range is in fact better. Imaging is decent if you have them within 1 foot of the wall. Don't toe them in. My speakers are placed about 8 feet apart and I sit about 12 feet back. Do not have items or equipment in between the speaker pair or the channel mix is eliminated. You may also need to tune the rear base port, or the base can become overwhelming and unnatural. I use some water line pipe insulating foam to fill 2/3s of the 1 rear port. The speakers are easy to drive and they play loudly if you'd like. The full range of a grand piano is easily achieved without a stand-alone subwoofer. There is a natural weight and heft to lower register bass notes that most floor standers lack. They are decent mains for 5 channel too. I'm certain they're not perfect, but neither are $50000 Wilson Audio and I'm about $49700 to the good. Don't be afraid to try a pair if you find them used. I've A/B tested them against many other speakers and I keep returning to these.

the bose 701 is over 10 years in my house and is very good speaker .bass is 10.mid is 8.hi are 10.i have tannoy and jbl the are good too but i rely like this 701 speakers

I use this speakers now for about 15 years. The were first speaker in my living room and I used them to listen music off all kind. (Classic, Jazz, Rock, Pop). They were not really neutral in sound but the lolour they put on were never brash or unharmonic but they were very precise in locating instruments. When I listen to them first I was really surprised about how fine I was able to locate the different instruments. When I bought a surround system (Canton Movie XL) the speaker were moved in my private party room. They are now the main speaker but will be supported by 2 JBL control one and a Canton AS 25 in the bar area. I used them for years without this support and celebrated a lot of parties with loud music over hours. The speakers never lost their dynamics and produced sound even on high output level without any disharmonics or even defects. I used the Yamaha AS890 as amplifier first and replaced the amplifier later by an Samson Servo 260.
When you want to get something which produces the tiniest sound detail extremly neutral, than this speakers are not really the right ones. However if you are focused more on ability to locate instruments, reliability and good sound even on high sound levels, than this are the ideal speakers.

this review is regarding Bose 701 serie I (same as you can clearly see in the photo attached not serie II). I have read all the reviews about them, and I have to say that I do not understand why people is talking about them with bad post. I would like to mention that I own Bose products a long time ago, in fact I grew up with good speakers since i was a child (JBL, Polkaudio, Pioneers, canton, klipchs etc...I spent thousand of € more that I could afford) and I have to say that there's no other speaker that come close to this pair in terms of power handling and clarity at high volumes leves. a point to take in account is that the sound changes at time you up the volume (the bass sound that you hear becomes tight if you need to get high volumes levels, so no distortion is heard at any volume level). the bass fills the room and the highs and mids are there for the pleasure of your ears. this pair of speakers through away any kind of music with no coloration, so if the music comes with bass they will produce bass and viceversa. the tweeters are the best sounding in it's price class they are extremely detailed and ferro fluid cooled (no so common actually).

I can recall that there was a time that I turned the volume at the highest position of my amp. and the 701 were literally jumping in the ceilling. and I canoot remenbered hearing any distortion or stress, it was amazing. there's no other product in it's price range that can surpass or even equal the realism of overall sound quality and good looking, or...... excuse me....there's only one speaker that can surpass the 701 and they are only the 901 series VI (the best sounding speaker in the world in it's price class).

Rely on me, you will never get a speaker like this if you handle them with a good amp / receiver (aprox. 70wat per channel into 8 Ohm with a power consuption of roundabout 300watts) better the amp better the sound that you will hear.

very longlasting speakers made with good quality materials.

i loved bose after i owned a pair of studiocraft and 301s i grew up listening to them and they was good honest constructed speakers,with reasonable build quality and a beautiful sound to most everyday ears
Anyway i was impressed with what id owned of bose so i thought id get the best of what they sold at the time i didnt fancy the 901s i didnt understand the rear facing drivers so i went for the 701s1,
first impression out the box was these feel lite, but they look the nuts WOW! i must say when i first heard them i loved the sound for about a month then i got really tired with them, the bass was so one noted and very slow and the trebble very detached the mid range was ok but i could never get them to sing the way my old speakers did, somebody else described the sound as like having a blanket over them and thats 100% right its a very frustrating listen, i blew a treble unit trying to get more top end from them, i was going to replace the driver myself it was to much hastle sending them back and i didnt have the boxes anymore so i pulled the mesh off the side to take the driver out( HELD ON WITH STAPPLES) they cost me a thousand pounds i couldnt believe it! i didnt replace that unit in the end i had to buy a set of interaudio to sit on top of them so i had some sort a top end,i used the 701 as subs! in the end i got fed up and got rid of the lot it all looked and sounded crap, and the 701s cabinets looked worn after 6 months and the plastic bass ports would vibrate bad, its been a few years since my experience with these i just thought id put a truefull owner review on here, i can understand why people are pissed with bose if they had a bit of build quality with the new stuff it wouldnt be so bad, because audio people can just comment on the sound which is personal preference anyway, but when people are paying stupid prices and getting build issues and the sound it must be very frustrating for these experts to sit back and know whats going on and not say anything, I LOVE BOSE FROM THE PAST,, but they will never sell me another speaker from the present!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aesthetics and great sound

I guess it's not as good as I was hoiping it would be since it's from Bose. Not the sound quality I was expecting from Bose. Its really NOT BAD but since I've had 301 series before, I was really expecting something wild from a 701

I got a Bose 701 and I like it very much. It soounds great...looks great and added a lot of aesthetics to my home theater/music room.

Similar Products Used:

Bose 301

good hi frequency,deep bass,clarity of the tweeters.

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the bose 701 s 1.three way,four driver.this the best loudspeker in its price .very
musical,never sounded bad, hi quality sound,good for home theater .

Similar Products Used:

b&w dm602,denon 3805(as preamplifier),pv cs 400 power amp,

Deep Bass. Nothing I tested at my home or in retailer's showroom came close.

Midrange kind of muddy. May sound too live-like for some people. Good equalizer or receiver can adjust that though.

When I purchased these brand new 701 series 2 for $400 I was thrilled for getting such a bargain. Then my novice rabbit ears start to hear all the Bose bashing. I began to think I was missing something big and compromising for something less than ideal. So I started to look for something else and fortunetely I was able to find Infinity alpha50 and Yamaha NS 777 towers in the Bose's MSRP range ($700-1000 -- I don't know much about speakers so i went by price range lol). so I took them home and compared them extensively. To my surprise, Bose was better or equal to these speakers in every aspect. Bose's bass extension was better by wide margin and highes were just as sharp. Infinity had a better midrange but not by any significant margin. Yammy was kinda poor overall except for tweeter. Bose did have more "echoing" live-like sound stage while Infinity and Yammy produced more "in-your-face" direct sound (forgive me, I don't know any audiophile terms, I hope you get my message) but after tweaking my Yamaha receiver a little my 701's sound came pretty darn close to be "direct". Some may argue that I chose poor speakers to compare with but heck at least these were as pricy as the 701s and they were all tested thoroughly with tons of CDs/DVDs in my own living room. From now on I'm gonna trust my own ears not what those Bose bashing critics.

Similar Products Used:

Infinity Alpha 50 yamaha NS 777.