Horrific Confession and Question

Funny Constantine, I experience a similar feeling every time I go to Tower records Classical section. I am overcome by the lush music and become weak in the knees(Really!). All through the piped music thru ceiling mounted Boses. Similar experience at a Best buy while browsing for CDs, I always find myself humming or bobbing or thumping with the music. They play thru Boses two! I was also horrified to admit to myself let alone ask on the Audigon!What you are experiencing is probably right time and right place away from home scenario. Or MAY BE BOSE SPEAKERS ARE MUSICAL. My friend has Bose speakers and at a party I always find myself grooving /dancing with the music. THERE I SAID IT.(P.S. I OWN PAIR OF DUNLAVY SC-V's)

Constantine, I should mention again that the PSB Alpha A/V's sound very good with the volume up to where you would have it for a party. The PSB Mites are supposed to be very good for their size, as well. I think all the little PSB's are 6 ohm. Or maybe you should get a few of those Maggie MMG's with a BIG amp and corner mount them somehow. I bet that would get their attention, huh? [:)] Good Luck. Charlie

i don't listen to background music, finding it irritating and disruptive of my concentration. i have had the experience, tho, of buying discs on the basis of what i hear on a record store's system. (FWIW, i try very hard not to buy anything from big boxes, supporting instead my local indie, usually twist & shout). can't tell you how many times i've brought such recordings home to play on my "real" system to find they sound like crap. not sure what that implies but suggest this: if ya wanna listen to crap, play it on crappy electronics/speakers, 'cuz nobody'll really care, much less discern its crappiness. i guess that's why so many pop grammy award winners really ought to be put in the muzak category

Danvetc is on to something. I have heard Bose in background situations and Pianos always sound pretty good. Right smack in the mids. Put on the Piano dentist office music and off you go.

I, too, have suffered from this disease in the Tower Records classical system, and felt deeply ashamed to look up and spot Bose mini speakers in the ceiling!! (Compare with Mark Levinson, Jadis and Martin Logans at home!) Can some of our more technically minded contributors suggest a solution to the different challenges of background music, entertaining guests over drinks and dinner etc. that won't betray everything we stand for or further enrich Dr. Bose?