Bose sound system?
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Bose sound system?
This question came up in my last topic.
I'm on a used TL search, particularly a 3g. I've been seeing ads saying their used TL's have bose premium sound. One picture of the interior of one of these "bose upgrade" cars still has "ELS" on the head unit.
![](http://images.cars.com/supersized/DMI/106780/AS4661.07.jpg)
Is this bose premium sound upgrade BS or does it mean something less visible like sub upgrade or something?
I'm on a used TL search, particularly a 3g. I've been seeing ads saying their used TL's have bose premium sound. One picture of the interior of one of these "bose upgrade" cars still has "ELS" on the head unit.
![](http://images.cars.com/supersized/DMI/106780/AS4661.07.jpg)
Is this bose premium sound upgrade BS or does it mean something less visible like sub upgrade or something?
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Bose is for the 2nd gen TL and CL and 1st gen RL.
Only the RL bose system is any good IMO. It actually has highs and lows.
Only the RL bose system is any good IMO. It actually has highs and lows.
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Long story short... All 3G TL have Bose premium sound system which has been tuned by Elliot Scheiner. But because Panasonic owns Bose it is not called Bose anymore (in Acuras). But it is still Bose, ...or Panasonic... what ever you prefer.
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I've owned a '97, '03 and '05 TL. And a '02 RL.
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I'm still not impressed with anything I've seen from BOSE. I don't like it when manufacturers refuse to list important spec's like watts per channel, frequency response, Total Harmonic distortion. Nothing against anyone here but I just don't like BOSE.
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Some RSXs have Bose stereos too. Ms1995hoo has a 2003 RSX Type-S and the factory stereo is a Bose. I found that a little surprising when we first test-drove it simply because of the hatchback design.
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NSX and some Legends had Bose as well.
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