I'm the 99% too . . . - I love music, but I don't have time, or desire any more, to be an "audiophile" - I can't take listening to music on phone speaker or laptop speakers, but I can take headphones on either and I'm good with XM in the car. Works for me!
Dave On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 9:11 AM Josh Luthman <[email protected]> wrote: > I am the 99% > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:56 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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