Today we're doing a review on the bose CineMate 1SR Digital Home Theater Speaker System
That is how you pronounce it, probably should have looked that up before I did the video
but that is the correct pronunciation on Amazon it costs 1,349 dollars
and I'm gonna go through really quickly just some of the tech specs on it
because I didn't in the video too much I pretty much did the
unboxing also there's a menu at the bottom video if you just wanna skip to
the setup portion
or the review portion go ahead and skip to the that you don't have to to watch me on box and mess
around
some the key features on the Bose
CineMate 1SR are the ADAPTiQ Audio Calibration System
which analyzes the way your rooms dimensions
and other variables affect sound and then it automatically adjust the sound
for your speaker system to the acoustics of your room
the FlexMount automatic placement compensation
which automatically detects the speaker orientation it can be flat on a table or
mounted on a wall and adjust the sound to ensure wide spacious sound
PhaseGuide Sound Radiators
radiators work with true space technology to direct sound with precision sending
acoustic detail to the left right and centre or your room
I can confirm that that worked pretty well and some for the System
SmartSource input selection that just means it knows what
you've actually hooked up to your TV or you've plugged into and what's on
Wireless Acoustimass module that is the subwoofer
and programmable IR remote The dimensions are
4.9"x36.8"x2.4" and weighs 7.8lbs
Acoustimass Module is about 12"x15"x7.6" and 13.8lbs
Hey guys, what's going on, UnexceptionalRounder
I don't usually do this but my wife and I just went out and bought the Bose CineMate
1 SR, so I looked for a review on YouTube and Couldn't find [many] in English
that looked half decent so I thought I would do an unboxing and review
Lets get started.
I am going to try not to cut anything important in here and probably cut some of the
unwrapping stuff out. And I have no idea how well this audio
is going to come out so I may have to re-shoot that also
Heidi: Pardon the dogs in the filming too. Eric: Yeah don't mind the dogs
they're alright
bunch of foam here, looks like it ships pretty protected
these will be good treats for the dogs
let's see what we got in here
can you zoom in on any of this at all
This is the
ADAPTiQ the auto calibration system
we'll figure that out when we get there
that will be part of the review and demo setup
the remote and stuff for mounting on the wall it looks like
oh, every electronic comes with a
little cloth to wipe it down nice, energizer batteries
big thick manuel
pretty standard stuff
and then it looks like we've got... I think this is just a power adapter
Cords, for the collection. Oh nice, it comes with an optical cable
That's pretty handy
So you can connect it to the TV... Actually it comes with two optical cables
That's pretty nice actually I like that because
optical cables are pretty expensive I believe
We'll put this back here
Sorry
That's going to be loud
This is the actual soundbar Heidi: Da dada daaaa
I'll pull this thing out Nice
So this is pretty good looking
I mean it is Bose, so it's probably a little overpriced (not sure where I was going with this)
We got a good deal on it
Not a "good deal" necessarily but we got it for less than the sticker price
Alright so there it is, and I guess the deal is
you can either mount it flat like this, which is what we're going to do
Or mount it, well not mount it, I believe for us it's just going to sit.
I'm not sure which is the front
I guess this is probably the front
Where the cords come out, yeah I would say
So there is a little routing thing, you put the cords all under here
looks like, then they plug in here, So I would say
This is the front, the speaker
and that will go right about there
So that will look pretty good
I guess the Sub Woofer, the woofer is going to be in here too
Heidi: Hey Eric (pointing towards trouble) Eric: Hey (swatting at dog)
Ill bet you guys can guess which dog that is, it's the one that's always chewing on my mic stand.
So the last thing in here is the subwoofer, and the cool thing about this
It's completely wireless
So you don't have to run any cables
The old surround sound that we have
It's the standard, I don't know if if you guys can see this
but it's the standard wires running all over our house
Surround Sound, kinda inexpensive but
We were just tired of having wires everywhere
I don't know how many times the back speakers would get knocked over by people
Or come unplugged, or wouldn't work, so
despite the fact that obviously you can't get quite as good sound from a soundbar
as you can from a full surround sound system
The convenience seemed like it was worth it
Heidi: One cord to plug it into the wall
Yeah, it's only one power cord here so that's pretty sweet.
I don't know where this is going to go, I guess over where the old Subwoofer was probably.
We'll just kinda put that there
And that's pretty much it, that's all the stuff so
we'll go and clean this up and I'm going to look at how to actually
plug it in and install it a little bit
and then I will turn the camera back on
So, alright I got the setup done
I did not want to have you guys watch it because the actual setup is really easy
But obviously you can see our entertainment center, everything is behind it.
That was a little tricky to get too so it wasn't all that exciting to watch.
the bar sets up great, what i've got setup is I've plugged in the power obviously.
I've got an optical going to the television and an optical going to my Playstation 3
so when we watch a blu ray on the PS3
the optical will go right to the soundbar
and we can control it with the remote on the...
the sound bar remote
I just kinda wanted to show you guys, this is what we are upgrading from
I don't know if you can see this rat nest of wires
that was behind the TV, looks like we are missing a couple speakers
The subwoofer the whole player thing, I mean
having a DVD player hooked up doesn't really offer
all that much added
... thanks for that Fluff get out of there (shooing dog away)
OK, so what I am going to do now is I'm going to go ahead and show you
This... I don't know what's about to happen, it's called
ADAPTiQ
I don't know if you can see this
It's the audio calibration, so I'll fast forward it
but I don't know, i figure maybe something interesting will happen
So what I have to do I guess (I watched the little setup video)
Is I have to watch...
I have to move around the room take my glasses off
I have to move and sit in like 5 different seats Heidi: How was the setup video?
Oh yeah, the setup video was helpful we couldn't find an instruction manual except for the remote one
and then we ended up finding a DVD, so we popped that in and it showed you how to set everything up
step by step so that is pretty neat
there is a little, I'm not going to move the bar around, but there is a little end cap down here
and this is going to get really tangled I'm sure
Is that anything important she is chewing on? Heidi: Fluff has a wire, she just ate the end of it.
Ok well, I'm glad we're not using that anymore
gah, ok
we'll cut that out... of her stomach later
Something is about to happen
Is this thing on?
I don't actually know how to turn it on.
what about the remote, does the remote have a power button on it?
Power, there we go
something just happened, so power it on with the remote
and...
(ADAPTiQ Instructions)
(ADAPTiQ Instructions) (and some base)
(ADAPTiQ Instructions)
hey hey hey, we're over here alright we put the awesome headset on
got the cool message this is complete
what happened is I moved around the room a few times
it took some measurements, it made some snapping rubber band sounds off the cement walls in here
Now it kinda knows the acoustics of the room
Hopefully that will make it sound better because I've never setup
properly a surround sound before, so we're going to go ahead, get some of this out ot here
clean the room up a little bit Then, we are going to watch
The Deathly Hallows Part 1
And I will let you guys know, we will let you guys know what we this of the sound bar
and if it was worth the, what did we spend 1300 bucks on it?
If it's worth the 1300 bucks we just spent on it and if it's better than our
three and a half speaker surround sound system
that we upgraded from
Hey guys, we're back it was pretty late last night and we decided we would just
do the review in the morning that gave us the chance to watch another movie
we watched Harry Potter and then we also watched The Dark Knight which was good because those are both great movies
Overall, very very impressed with the soundbar again
this is the Bose CineMate
not exactly sure how to say it CineMate 1SR
and as you can see we have it mounted here underneath the TV
it can also be calibrated for above the TV or
mounted on wall and you know I think that looks pretty sleek, our TV is not on the wall but if it was
I think that would look great
as you saw I did the calibration
the ADAPTiQ calibration
I don't know what it did but hopefully it helped a little bit
the sound was very very good it was
very full good quality Bose sound we didn't get a lot of sound
from behind, but one of the reasons for that could be that we have a living room
kitchen
living room dinning room* So the couch isn't where the room actually stops
which makes it hard to bounce sound off of the wall from behind us
the left and right sound is very good, very full very clear
The thing that we noticed the most was that
volume, when we used to watch
even with our old surround sound system or on the television
during the really loud action scenes we would have to turn the
volume down we live in a multiunit building so our neighbors would hear it, it's loud
so we would actually have to turn our TV down during the really loud scenes
and then during the more quiet dialogue scenes we would have to turn the volume up
we didn't even notice until after the movie that when we set the volume at the very beginning of the movie we didn't touch it
for the rest of the time which was awesome, it made watching the movie a lot more enjoyable to not have to sit there
and monitor the volume the entire time while still being able to
hear everything and feeling pretty immersed in what was going on
without messing with the volume with that, if you can zoom in here a little bit
the multipurpose remote... er
yeah remote that comes with it is actually pretty nice
its heavy it's pretty solid and we
combine all these remotes onto this
in about five minutes and it actually walking through
how to setup the Bose, how to setup the remote how to setup the ADAPTiQ
and it comes with a nice DVD that
explains everything very clearly and how to do it so
it made the setup really, a breeze there's only two things to plug in
as I said we've got this plugged into our television
and into the blu-ray player
and than the subwoofer
plugs right into the wall and that's it, it's wirelessly connected
the setup, everything, very very simple very easy
Everything was well made, well put together and
overall we're just really happy with the result again
the only thing was, and it might just be because our room isn't set up for it
is that there wasn't a lot of sound coming from behind
but, it's pretty tough for a speaker that is up here to put
you know sound behind you, so i kind of expected that
as far as improvements over our old surround sound or television sound, I mean
no not even close so we're really happy with the product
and thought it was great
Heidi, any comments?
Heidi: 1,300 dollars well spent.
yeah, you heard it here first, 1,300 bucks well spent
CineMate 1SR
If you guys like this review, this is my first review on a product that's not
poker software, if you guys like stuff like this you want to see more of it, check out there will be a link in
the description to the Amazon page, where you can actually
purchase this if you're interested I hope you guys enjoyed this
video, and untill next time
Keep on wtchin
watchin TV and stuff
Heidi: and stuff and stuff