I think it's mainly a matter of good marketing, really. It seems to me that they mostly just made something that sounds a bit different, and then convinced people that it sounds better.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 9:56 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > 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. > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 7:02 AM Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:09 PM Jason McKemie < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Bose has good marketing and not a lot else. >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 2:49 PM Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> On Dec 27, 2018, at 3:21 PM, Josh Luthman <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 9:21 AM Adair Winter < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> quality varies across some of the stations I've noticed, depends on >>>>> what you are listening to. talk radio is worse than some of the music >>>>> channels. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 8:17 AM Matt Hoppes < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> But. The quality. Also Fox Headlines had commercials :( >>>>>> >>>>>> On Dec 27, 2018, at 09:11, Adair Winter <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> because no commercials and the same stations everywhere it pretty >>>>>> cool. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 8:00 AM Matt Hoppes < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> We just got a new vehicle at work that includes XM radio for some >>>>>>> period of time for free. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Anyone else who’s had experience with XM: does it always sound like >>>>>>> it’s compressed, digital and low fidelity? 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