Bose makes more than speakers...

Bose makes quite nice noise cancelling headsets for use by pilots or anyone else needing reliable voice communications in noisy environments. Their big competitor is David Clark. Both are horribly overpriced, as are most aviation manufacturers.

funny thread

true story

the company I sold hi end audio for in college had the bose line. Many people would call up looking for Bose, and I would suggest that they bring in music they were familiar with and I would demo the bose and another even more impressive speaker. After a short conversation on their equipment, room size, type of music, I would choose an appropriate speaker. I could take virtually any two way speaker in the store, do an a/b comparison with the 901's and sell them a pair of the other speaker. I never bad-mouthed Bose, I merely let them hear the difference themselves, and they would rave to their friends about this speaker that was even more revealing than the Bose. Our store NEVER SOLD ANY BOSE all the time it existed, but their marketing was so good, it drew people from miles away.
I would be conservative in saying that 20% of my speaker clients were those shopping for Bose, so thanks ...

never understood the concept of a Bose 901 speaker
1 mushy driver up front and 8 mushy drivers reflected off the back - sounds like a great way to get pinpoint imaging

if they do that with the military
we would have a plane that shoots heat seeking missles that take an orbit around the earth then find their target ;-)

oh well

tom

Hey ONH if we could equate the Bose sound to a car , you would arrive at Vega + Chevet + Gremlin. So why not sneer with a good laugh at the wierd sound "The Thing" makes. Most Bose owners are over 70 and listen to their Lawrance Welk at a soft volume, that's all Bose is good for...barely even that!

Onhwy61, Funny thing about thoes $60K german car owners is-Yes they look down on American cars and most Japanese cars, but they Love the bose sound systems in their cars, most being not audiophiles. Hence the bose sound system packaged in MBs, BMWs and Porsches. Me I took one listen in a bose equipped Boxster and went for DSP (non-bose) system in mine. I also later auditioned a 911. The 911 Bose is even more horrible. I was disgusted w/ the quality of sound in $90K car. I left the dealer even without saying thank you.

Nilthepil - Rude doesn't get anything accomplished - How can dealers know what to tell manufacturers if you leave rude and not explain what the car needs to appeal to another percentage of the population no matter how small. They put these systems in because we let them.