Boston Acoustics

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Boston Acoustics is one of those small cottage speaker manufacturers that garners dedicated loyalty from a small but rabidly devoted following who will only use Boston Acoustics speakers their whole lives. Fortunately for its following, Boston makes speakers not only for home theater systems (you can choose from boxes or in wall designs), but Boston also makes award winning speakers and subs for car audio.

Founded in 1979, Boston Acoustics gained a reputation for offering high performance speakers at affordable prices. Still, the very word affordable is a relative term, so even Boston Acoustics lower end micro satellite speakers are far from the budget offerings of some of the more mainstream manufacturers. A variety of speaker sizes and shapes round out Bostons line.
You can fill your home theater with a complete system using either high end book shelf speakers that incorporate their unique surround speakers or you can go with timbre matched towers that sound great with their surrounds. A system that uses Boston Acoustics VR-M90s up front with their VR-MX surrounds is as fine a home theater speaker system as youll find in this price bracket, especially for the discriminating listener. On the other hand, Bostons micro satellites are a less expensive offering for smaller rooms. Boston has been making these home theater speaker packages since the earliest days of surround sound and their unique di-pole designed surrounds are the fruits of years of experience with speakers that capture a uniquely diffused aural experience.

Boston Acoustics specializes in professional reference quality speaker systems from their Big Theater line. These are big speakers with hefty power requirements that are designed for larger rooms only. The Big Theater speakers are designed to be built into the walls of a dedicated theater system and arent your typical in wall mounted speakers. What sets these speakers apart? Most in-wall speakers are an afterthought of the manufacturer to put out a line that includes this feature. The result is a flat speaker that can be placed into a wall. The Big Theater (or BT) line is designed to be professionally installed into a theater and allows the installer to mould the enclosure to fit the room acoustics.

A wide array of speakers that can perform nearly every task rounds out Bostons line from outdoor speakers to in wall, in ceiling, boxes of every size as well as car audio. Boston Acoustics has very recently gotten into the manufacture of multi-channel receivers. Its impossible to find faults in Bostons product line except that theyre not for the extremely budget conscious. If youre looking for cheap speakers to fill in gaps in your sound system it would probably pay to look elsewhere.