I have Bose headphones (QC15 noise cancelling ones). They always surprise me how much better it is than anything else. I primarily got them for when I fly (of which they work phenomenally - didn't know where there was a screaming baby behind me until the flight attendant offered me ear plugs).
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 9:57 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > A decent set of headphones should sound better than 99% of speakers. > Welcome to the 1%. > > > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *David Hannum > *Sent:* Monday, December 31, 2018 8:25 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: XM Radio > > > > 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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