Basically, these systems are totally worthless junk and they are designed
to look good and sound exciting in the store, not to actually be accurate
to to listen to for the long term. There is no way to make the Acoustimass
system sound anything even remotely close to accurate.

Actually, they are designed exactly like they are for one reason:

- They were designed to sound great in very noisy environments.
The same environments that you get in a shopping mall. There
is a huge amount of background noise that makes speakers sound
flat and dull in this situation.

So Bose made the speakers to sound good in that environment,
or to be more specific, artificially boost them to sound somewhat
normal instead of sucked out like everything else.

Of course in a quiet environment(home), they sound like the
crap they are.