Hi all,

Has anybody tried hooking up the bose acoustimass cube speakers directly to their receiver as surround speakers without the acoustimass module? Is the acoustimass module really necessary to drive the cube speakers? Can someone use the acoustimass (without the cubes) as the subwoofer (.1) and the cubes (without the acoustimass) as the surround speakers? Is there any danger of blowing up the cubes or the acoutimass module if used as mentioned?

Thanks!

I have tried this at a friends basement, the cubes as rears that is without the bass(?) module. It works alright especially if you have them laying around and want to use them. I think you can do better for not alot of money.

It is actually a friend's setup. He currently has center, front left and front right bose (standard standalone) speakers but he has the Acoustimass for his rear/subwoofer setup. Of course, since he hooked up the acoustimass module to the left and right surround, no bass is coming out of the acoustimass module. So we were wondering if we can separate the acoustimass module and use it as a sub and use the cubes separately as surround speakers.

Well, the thing with Bose is, you have to use the module to get the 'right' sound. Bose speakers are HIGHLY eq'd and don't work well without it's base module.

I would highly recommend not doing that. The bass module is not really a subwoofer. One of the advantages of digital surround is that you get full bandwidth at the rears. A ".1" powered sub may handle the extreme low frequencies but there will be info sent to the rears that wil still be significantly lower than the satellites can handle. I am not saying it can't be done but I would never do it.

-rob

Die Bose!

I did this. But I had to have the input to the sub from the headphone jack in the front of my receiver. It worked ok. Finally convinced the wife to go with "real" speakers! It does work, but is not a long term solution.

Headphone...ROFL.

Not laughing 'at' you, just 'with' you. That's gotta be a first for me!