[related (surround)]



For the last four years, I've used a Bose Wave III as a studio reference monitor. It has been placed at various locations within the signal chain hierarchical web, but since 2023, the last two links of the chain have been comprised of some form of digital audio recorder, and then this.

The early days of using the Bose as a studio monitor were likely (don't remember exactly my first impressions) jarring, but I recall having the thought that dedicated studio monitors were excessive for what I was doing. The last setup in which I relied on the JBL MK IIIs was a Lifetime picnic table naturally bowing from the minimal weight of a laptop and the two monitors, and a cumbersome 12U roadcase made by Sound Town only barely having enough clearance to sit beneath the table.

In the latest and currently existing architecture of routing, I've been deliberately shorting a 3.5mm TRS lead inside of a TRS 3.5mm to TRS 6.35mm adaptor inside of a TS 6.35mm to XLRF adaptor to get the left channel of the XLR input to play across both channels of the TRS 3.5mm cable (to force a MONO image) feeding the monitor. Busted kind of approach, but I have been content with it thus far.