Why doesn Bose publish full system specifications for L1® systems?
While some specifications add value when comparing two otherwise similar products, they’re mostly meaningless for a product as fundamentally different as the Cylindrical Radiator® loudspeaker and the L1® system. In addition, most specifications used to describe sound systems can be very misleading. They suggest relatively complex physical or perceptual properties can be condensed to a single or small set of numbers that defines overall quality or performance. In many cases these numbers only loosely relate to what you would experience in a real-world application. There are also several variations in how a specific measurement can be carried out, making number comparisons useless. We believe it serves our customers better to describe L1® systems in terms they can relate to more directly. We also encourage customers to experience an L1® system personally, either at a demonstration or in actual real-world trials they conduct themselves.
