14 DAY TRIAL // The market for audio equipment is just as alive and kicking as always, so it wasn't too much of a shock to learn of the Bose Companion 20 multimedia speaker system.
The past week has seen the coming of quite a few unusual products, especially on the peripheral market.
Both SteelSeries and Verbatim took their jobs very seriously and created mice for which users will be hard-pressed to find similar rivals.
AOC also made its mark, with this USB-powered monitor, and even the storage industry got SSDs with hybrid caching advantages and even self-ecryption.
Now, Bose is offering something that will bring people back to normality, down to earth as it were.
Though there is nothing wrong with uniqueness, it can't really exist unless prospective buyers have the pleasant normalcy of everyday products to compare it with.
What Bose created is the Companion 20, a speaker system composed of two speakers and which lacks a subwoofer.
Users might raise an eyebrow at the supposed lack of bass, but the company took steps to make sure the audio experience is complete, so that a subwoofer is, ultimately, unnecessary.
Music can be reproduced across a wide, full frequency range, thanks to a new driver and advanced port.
There is even a proprietary digital signal processing technology, as well as active electronic equalization, for sound reproduction accuracy.
Detail and realism is preserved at low volumes, while higher intensities are free of the distortion often associated with such settings.
As for their design, the speakers have a fairly common outer shape and should fit neatly on both sides of a PC monitor. The Bose TrueSpace stereo digital signal processing feature even enhances the so-called acoustic image.
The Bose Companion 20 should already be selling in Singapore, for S$539. In US dollars, this means $424, which is the rough equivalent of 310 Euro.