INTRODUCTION

   Strangely enough even though the market is filled with all sorts of PC speakers most people i know don't really care about audio quality and so they all use 2.0 or 2.1 budget oriented speaker systems. Well actually i too used to be the same way but not for long, as a matter of fact in the mid 90's i got a rather powerful professional 2.0 monitor system which a couple of years later i replaced with my very first 5.1 surround sound system. Fast forward to today and of course things are massively different so one doesn't need to have large or many speakers in order to get quality audio. Bose is one of the very first manufacturers (if not the very first one) to introduce small high output speakers in the home cinema "arena" back in the early 2000's and even though i never had one of their surround sound speaker systems at home i did have the opportunity to listen to a few of them where i was working back then. So, as you can certainly imagine when their Companion 50 Multimedia Speaker System arrived at the office/lab well over 1 month ago i was very excited to see what Bose had been up to all these years.

   Bose Corporation was founded in 1964 by Dr. Amar G. Bose, then a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today, the company is driven by its founding principles, investing in long-term research to develop new technologies with real customer benefits. Bose innovations have spanned decades and industries, creating and transforming categories in audio and beyond. Bose products for the home, in the car, on the go, and in public spaces have become iconic, changing the way people listen to music. Bose Corporation is privately held. The company’s spirit of invention, passion for excellence, and commitment to extraordinary experiences can be found around the world — everywhere Bose does business.

   The Bose Companion 50 is an award winning 2.1 multimedia system (two satellite speakers complete with their own stands paired with an rather compact Acoustimass module/subwoofer) which was actually released back in 2015 as a replacement to their popular Companion 5 USB plug & play model which featured a built-in sound card. Because however many consumers wished to use it with their very own sound cards (which obviously surpassed what was built-in the Companion 5) Bose all but replaced it with the improved Companion 50 (TrueSpace technology with new DSP used) which thanks to its 3.5mm port could be used with virtually every device out there from PCs to smartphones, tablets and even music players. This move from Bose also resulted in reduced production costs (which in turn translated to a price cut) something which certainly also helped propel sales of the Companion 50 to new heights. As for specifications Bose shares almost nothing about their Companion 50 but after a bit of digging i was able to find out just its power output (300WRMS), number of channels (1 for each satellite speaker) and frequency response (up to 20.000Hz). So, let’s move with todays review and see whether or not the 6-year-old Companion 50 multimedia speaker by Bose is still worth getting.