To Doug Schneider,

I would like to request an article on a “lifestyle” home-theater showdown. I have a small space and have been looking for something like this. For example, I'd like to see how a Bose setup fairs against Morel’s latest SoundSpot Music Theatre 2 / 2 Ultra setup and so on. This would be a great review article for people like me with a small space looking for professional reviews to help with their choice. I love the in-depth reviews on SoundStage! Xperience and I hope that an article like this is possible.

Thanks,
Angel M.

It’s interesting that you should bring Bose up, since I was talking about the company with one of our writers just the other day. In the 16 years that the SoundStage! Network has existed, we’ve never reviewed a Bose product. Why? From what we can tell, Bose doesn’t really like to have their products reviewed -- they’ve never seemed interested in having us write about their products, and I rarely see their products getting reviewed elsewhere. Could it be that their products just aren’t that good and they'd rather rely on their own marketing to sell them instead? Hard to say. However, you’re not likely to see any Bose showdown here or anywhere else for that reason.

But your point is an excellent one -- there are many who live in small spaces and yearn for a compact home-theater speaker system, Bose or otherwise. Morel’s system seems like an interesting option and I can imagine that there are many more products like it. I definitely agree that this is something we should focus more on and you have my word that we will. . . . Doug Schneider