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I love this thing!
By: Shawn Crabtree
Submitted: 3/25/2019
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This PA blows my mind, alone with all my friends or anyone else who has heard it. Well worth the investment.
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Excellent choice
By: Victor Reyes
Submitted: 9/7/2018
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Great gear a must have it for any type of events!
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Simple tve best I love it
By: Francisco Javier hernandez
Submitted: 9/5/2018
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Just tve best product ever
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Perfect PA!
By: Stephen Truitt
Submitted: 7/21/2018
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When I started shopping for APA I was not sure which would suit my needs. 1st I talked to one of the knowledgeable people at American musical supply and told them my needs. They pointed me in the right direction and everything has been perfect sense. It was the best deal and the best experience! Won't shop anywhere else and will always take their advice
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Best Musical Investment I’ve made.
By: Tommy Edwards
Submitted: 5/11/2018
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Seriously best acoustic system I’ve owned. Bought it 2 years ago, been gigging with it 3-4 nights a week, most of the year. We run a guitar, 3 vocals and a mic’d Cajon through it. It has the most incredible sound, and we can be set up in 10 Minutes. Buy it.
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Expensive but beautiful!
By: Greg
Submitted: 12/31/2017
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Pretty amazing system! I purchased two of these and eliminated most monitors. Drummer needed one but everyone else could hear the Bose speakers as we placed them on the sides of the stage towed in towards the band and they have a very wide dispersion. Most gigs we didn’t mic anything but vocals kick and snare. Bigger gigs we’d mic cabs too. Your band mates must have a mature sense of stage volume or you can forget this setup.
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Worth every penny!
By: Robert Dutton
Submitted: 3/24/2015
2 people found this review helpful.
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Yes, it's alot of money but if beautiful sound is what you want you need to part with some cash. I was also impressed with the way it arrived. Well packed, very nice travel bags. If you can, get the B2 Bass unit. It's fantastic. Now I can sell some of my other amps. No need to keep them. The Bose system is my go to unit. Can't wait for first reviews from people.
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unbelievable
By: fiddler1
Submitted: 11/16/2014
1 person found this review helpful.
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I have been using this for small indoor and outdoor events with acoustic singles and duos. It has a great sound that is spread evenly. I recently played a large hall (holds about 500). I brought my old jbl 15" system with my Mackie 808s and 2 15" monitors as backup. I set the system up using the Mackie to power monitors and as a mixer for the mains. I didn't even hook up the jbl speakers. I didn't need to. I realize that this system is designed to be behind the musician and that everyone should have one, but on my budget I was lucky to have one. Anyhow, the single L1 with the B2 was plenty for this show. With one unit behind the band it would have been feeding back because of numerous mics, but with monitors and the L1 system in front of the band, I could crank up the L1. I got many compliments on the sound that night. I realize that my setup wasn't as intended, but it worked great for the four piece band.
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By: JayG
Submitted: 11/12/2014
2 people found this review helpful.
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This is a great product - no question. I used a pair of these for a smaller gig with a four-piece band and some DJ'ing in between sets. In a venue where space was very much an issue, the L1's were indispensable and sounded just as good, if not better, than bringing in a bunch of traditional PA cabs. We received many compliments on the sound and surprised a lot of people when they discovered everything they were hearing was coming from two very narrow stacks of speakers and a couple small subs.
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Another Great innovation from Bose
By: Banjopickinjerry from Mountain View, Ar
Submitted: 6/11/2014
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Bose, better than anybody else can take a small speaker and make it sound BIG. This system is no different. The clarity is incredible and it is a no brainer to hook up, like snapping together leggos. Bose goes first class with including embroidered covers for every piece of the system too. I was seriously considering buying the very expensive travel cases for all the components but the covers will certainly postpone that expense for now.
The quality of fit and construction is great. It reminds me of the term "commercial duty".
It was super easy right out of the box to power up and get going with a "dry" signal. The tone match is going to take a while to learn every thing it will do, it does so much. The manual will prove to be indespensible at conquering the ToneMatch.
The best features of this product are its compactness. I feel that more mic inputs are needed. Even with three on the Tone Match if you have a small acoustic group as I do, there are not going to be enough inputs for everyone unless you use an auxiliary mixer.
Tone is crystal clear. It couldn't be better.
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Freehouse blues band live gigs
By: Freehouse blues band from Darien IL
Submitted: 5/24/2014
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Easy setup in minutes and we just love it. we can't say enough good things about how great it sounds, this has been such eye and ear opener for our band. We are thinking of buying another complete L1m2 B2 T1 run stereo? down the road..
Price? well it's sounds high but when you think of all the equipment you needed before? I had little over $4000 in my old PA. road case $350, powered mixer $1000, 2 power amps and 31bd QE $1100, mains 1x15 $700, 4 1x12 monitors $1000 + tax!
The L1m2 B2 T1 all seem to be made well, like most things take care of them maybe they will last you life time. I still see allot of people that have bought the old L1 systems, they are still working and sound just as good. only time will tell.
Easy as all h3ll in matter of minutes we are ready to play. the T1 mixer is awesome excellent effects and easy to use, I patch in small 4 channel mixer on ch-4 and yes I run 3 vocal, guitar, bass, bass drum into the L1 and we can here everything loud and clear and it just sounds amazing, we get so many complements. no more floor monitors needed, it takes little getting use too, but we are much tighter as band. all those bars with bad acoustics, hey now they dont sound so bad.
it's compact easy setup and sound amazing.
It's just awesome! we love it, we dont know how we could have done without it, such great clean clear sound and our friends and gig followers have complement on the over all sound improvment.
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SO MUCH SOUND IN SO LITTLE SPACE
By: Ron Austin
Submitted: 5/3/2014
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THANKS TO AMERICAN MUSICIAL I'VE GOT MY SOUND SYSTEM IN LESS THAN 12 HOURS. PACKED VERY TIGHT AND ALL IN GOOD CONDITION.
BOSE IS GOOD QUALITY, I CAN'T THINK OF A THING BOSE MAKES THAT'S LESSER QUALITY. SOUND WISE, IMMACULATE!
PUT IT TOGETHER, TURN IT ON, AND PLAY. SEEMS ALMOST PERFECT WITH THE STOCK SETTINGS, A LITTLE BOTTOM TO TASTE.
SIZE IS DEFINATELY A FACTOR AND TRANSPORTABILITY. ALL CASES TO PROTECT THE ITEMS
SOUND IS THE KEY, CLEAN, UNDISTORTED, GOOD SOLID BOTTOM AND THEN CUSTOMIZE TO YOUR OWN TASTE
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Awesome
By: Steve from Fort Myers
Submitted: 4/22/2014
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Amazing
By: Dr Clean
Submitted: 4/3/2014
0 people found this review helpful.
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The sound is amazing
very well made and so far it's dependable
plug and play takes hardly no time to set it up
ease of use
amazing
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Once you go BOSE you will never go back!
By: Paul M from Rapid City
Submitted: 1/29/2014
1 person found this review helpful.
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If you haven’t played through a BOSE yet you will be amazed! I sold my BOSE a few years ago as I was traveling in a motor home and just thought an amp would be easier to carry around. I bought and sold several amps and was never satisfied. Just bought another BOSE and wow, it still amazes me how great it sounds. I play Acoustic Guitar and sing. No matter how hard I tried I could not get the rich sound from the amps like I get from the BOSE.
Fabulous…
Easy to set up and use...
Tone match is great...
The tone is wonderful...
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It's Bose...what else can one say......
By: Craig Backstrom
Submitted: 6/12/2013
2 people found this review helpful.
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Finally...no comparison.
By: Joe Spina from Rocky Point, NEW YORK
Submitted: 5/2/2013
1 person found this review helpful.
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Awesome product! Does exactly what you need for a fine performance! After you get over the hurdle of price and yea its way more expensive than I would like but BOSE just works.
The product is made to carry around in four separate and included bags. Everything fits like a glove!The Tone match is quite an electronic marvel but I'd be real careful how you pack it as its small and delicate in a sense that there's lots of digital electronics in a small package. That said, all is very well made.
Just put it together as per the quick start up guide, turn her on and get to playing! Very intuitive. If you've been around mixing boards you should have no issues!
One of the best features is; ITS ALL YOU NEED! No additional monitor no out board effects...this product has everything!
Perfect!
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The Best PA solution ever to working musician.
By: Mr. Tai from Lynnwood, WA, USA.
Submitted: 4/29/2013
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Very solid feel to all the main components. A little flimsy on the Tonematch bracket. Maybe I haven't figured it out to slide all the way into the receptor. The rest is very solid.
MUST first install "L1 updater tool" onto your computer before any update can be done. Tonematch must be hooked up to L1 tower before USB connection to PC.
AFTER THAT: It's all about SOUND! Wonderful! For the first time I spent the whole night to work on my music rather than tinkering with the sound system. There is no useful volume at 25% master knob. Must be at least 40% and up to feel adequate volume to work with Live performance. Background music is good at all volumes.
I'm ready to say good bye to my sound guy and PA FOH issues. I will no longer keep asking my audience how I sound anymore because I KNOW how I sound like thanks to the Bose speaker positioned behind me.
NO FEEDBACK AT LESS THEN 4 FEET with keyboard and SM58. This is a God sent feature. No more worries about feedback when I go all the way at 3 o'clock position on Master fader knob.
All much needed processors are included in the Tonematch unit. Very useful parameters. I heard all the fizzles and little details.
Besides the CONFUSING firmware uploads, it is very simple to operate. You can always go to L1 forum at Bose.com if problems occur. Great piece of equipment for sure!!!!
Good as long as you can make it.
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Love this product as other Bose products. Premium price for premium performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!