Re: Bose Offers New Take on Live Sound

[Bill Monk <billmonk@mac.com>]

Agree with some of the other comments about Bose, but assuming the thing 
works, it's I think it's an exciting idea. I regularly play through a PA 
that cost its owners over $300,000, including a top-of-the-line Allen & 
Heath console, multiple Left-Center-Right speaker clusters, huge amount 
of power, and individual personal monitor mixers for each player. It 
sounds great if you play a CD through it but live it is terrible on 
stage, and by all accounts the house sound isn't too great either. 

So while this Bose rig might not exactly work for an Ozzy concert, at 
reasonable volumes the concept at least makes a lot of sense.

Classical guitarist Sharon Isbin has been doing somethign similar for 
year, carrying a small system for her guitar, with its speakers placed 
behind the orchestra. I heard this once, and although classical guitar 
bores me a little (character flaw no doubt :) it did sound great.

Believe she's talked about it in a number of articles, but here is one I 
just found.

http://www.sharonisbin.com/magazine.html