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Maybe the lesson is to know your market. "Most people" are not
audiophiles, and "most people" probably have a taste for how music
should sound. Credit Bose for figuring out what people like, and
tailoring their product to provide it. The fact that they can do
it with pedestrian components is a feather in their cap (and a
plus to their bottom line).
bp
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On 12/28/2018 11:46 PM, Forrest
Christian (List Account) wrote:
Bose is excellent at Turd-Polishing.
Let me explain: Where a traditional provider might go and
buy proper drivers with good response throughout the frequency
range, and take care in designing a crossover, etc, when
designing a speaker, Bose is more about taking reasonably ok
speaker elements and then using signal processing to clean
them up. If they have a bit of a weak spot say at the high
or low end, they will boost those with dynamic equalization.
If there is some phase distortion, often this can be cleaned
up with DSP processing. And so on.
Often this results in a better-sounding speaker than a
traditional system. But this is not without compromise as
sometimes the result is not as 'pure' as a decently designed
traditional system. But for 99% of the people out there it's
going to sound perfectly acceptable if not just as good as the
expensive system. In some cases, you'd even find that many
people prefer the sound from the Bose system since Bose often
seems to optimize for the average listener's preferences
instead of what a "true audiophile" would choose. Where an
audiophile would look for flatness and purity, an average
person just wants something which sounds pleasing with most
things they'll play through it. If the system colors the
playback a bit, but it sounds better, most people won't care.
People say all the time that Bose sucks but I'm
very happy with Bose in all the cars I've had it in as well
as the "sound box" in the house. I'm definitely not an
audiophile, though.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
Bose has good marketing and not a lot else.
Bose car audio (and home audio) is
pretty terrible and far from accurate in most cars.
I just bought a new car that has Bose ‘premium’
audio, and it sounds like absolute crap compared to
my old car which had the premium HK stock system.
... but, I’m sort of an audiophile, so most
people probably won’t agree with me.
Quality sounds great to me.
But of course I've had Bose audio in all the
cars with XM.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
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