How does the bose soundwave work?

Paul has answered well...

I just wanted to add: the WaveGuide concept is a patent by Bose... It is very similar to other speaker manufacturers that use "Transmission Line" concept... essentually, they are the same.

These Transmission Line concepts is almost like a muffler on a car engine. It causes back pressure and muffles the sound, causing the engine's sound to be a lower, less resonating, less annoying sound.

In the case of your guitar, this concept may not work, since there is really not much pressure from the guitar strings - which is causing the sound thru vibrations. In speakers, the woofers move - causing air pressure.

The back of the speakers that generate the bass are routed through a channel (a "waveguide," hence the name Bose Wave) in the radio's body that delays the time it takes for the sound pressure developed by the back of the speaker to be output from the front of the unit. This delay makes the output of this sound be in phase with the sound coming from the front of the bass speakers, which amplifies the amount of bass that the unit produces. It's kind of like a ported enclosure in a standard floor or bookshelf speaker.

The body of a guitar is shaped to be tuned to resonate at the various frequencies that the guitar strings can produce. And, the hollow body enhances the fullness of the guitar sound. So, it doesn't make sense that you would adapt the technology of the Bose Wave radio to work on a guitar. A guitar and a loudspeaker employ two completely different acoustic principles.

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How does the bose soundwave work?

I was thinking about the technology in their speakers and thinking about adapting it to work on a guitar, if I could figure out how they do it. I like the idea of getting a guitar to sound "larger than life" sort of like bose speakers do.....

How Bose Speakers Work

The "soundwave" is simply a waved chamber behind the speakers which makes it seem as if the space behind the speakers is larger than it is and this enables the speaker to produce lower frequencies than it otherwise would. That's all. Bose uses this technology in a glorified boombox they sell for an inflated price.