Bose Companion 5 Multimedia Speaker System
The Bose® Companion® 5 multimedia speaker system is engineered to deliver the excitement of surround sound content right at your computer—without the clutter of five speakers. Just two small speakers and a hideaway Acoustimass® module deliver much of the audio performance you’d expect from a five-speaker surround sound system. And a single USB connection is all it takes—no special software, hardware or sound card upgrade necessary.
Comments:
July 6th, 2009 at 4:17 am
ok.. tiny question after seeing this. Betty said paraphrased “it’s perfect for you guys who are upgrading your sound cards on your new pc’s”
may be a silly question but running through a USB line you would be utilizing CPU processing not audio card processing so regardless of the audio card you have in the system you wont be using it’s outputs but the outputs of whatever audio your motherboard has built in… or does the audio card still process everything and just magically bypasses the CPU to output to a USB connector not even built into it’s circuits?
this has been a question of mine for a while before this video too, i know that dedicated audio cards free up a ton of CPU processing power (on mine about 15% increase from built in motherboard audio to dedicated card audio) this just seems unlikely when you now have to re-route the processed audio back through the motherboard to a USB connector if anything you’ll see a very very slight increase in performance if adding a dedicated card and this, and possibly a decrease in performance when adding this compared to directly out of the dedicated audio card’s outputs.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:24 am
OH! and i forgot MP3′s are a compressed audio format the only way to get truly crisp clear audio without loss from the original is by using an uncompressed format like WAV or RAW-PCM or AIFF style formats. you can tell immediately based on the MB size, mp3′s will take close to 3 – 10 mb for 3min tracks, wav will take upwards of 50 to over 100mb’s depending on original recording bit depth. 16-bit 44100hz mp3′s cant even compare to 24-bit 192khz wav recordings.